Walter H. Gardiner, MD
Education:
BS with honors – Long Island University 1969
Masters in Medical Sciences –
    Rutgers Medical School 1971
MD. College of Physicians and Surgeons,
    Columbia University 1973
Internship and Residency –
    University of Michigan 1973 –1975
Fellowship/Hypertension –
    University of Michigan 1975 –1976
Fellowship/Nephrology –
    Wayne State University 1976- 1978
Assistant Professor (Medicine) and Chief of Nephrology
Meharry Medical College 1978 –1980

He has had medical articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine and in the Proceedings of the ASAIO and has made oral presentations at the International Society of Nephrology.

He left academics for private practice in 1980 and owned and managed several primary care and hemodialysis clinics in Tennessee and Kentucky.

He came to the Virgin Islands to rescue an ailing dialysis facility and injected new life into the Juan F. Luis hospital hemodialysis facility, but not without some controversy.

Today he is Medical Director of the Virgin Islands Kidney Center which he started and which is the only facility in the Territory offering both hemodialysis and Peritoneal dialysis. His philosophy of “total patient” care with a heavy emphasis on prevention (not just treatment) and his total commitment to patients with kidney disease have been responsible for his success.