{"id":3694,"date":"2020-04-23T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/chws\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2021-03-12T05:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:27:48","slug":"in-memoriam-uw-chws-founder-l-gary-hart-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2020\/04\/23\/in-memoriam-uw-chws-founder-l-gary-hart-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: UW CHWS Founder L. Gary Hart, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3697\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/gary-hart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"197\" \/>We are sad to report that the founder and long time Director of the University of Washington (UW) Center for Health Workforce Studies, Dr. L. Gary Hart, passed away April 13, 2020. Gary earned his PhD in Medical Geography at the UW in 1985 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and co-founded, with Dr. Roger Rosenblatt, the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center in 1988. He served as that Center\u2019s Director from 1989 until 2007. In 1998 Gary launched and served as the Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies. In 2007, Gary left the UW for a position at the University of Arizona, later moving to North Dakota to become the Director of the Center for Rural Health at that University\u2019s School of Medicine and Health. Gary<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s scientific contributions continue to guide the research of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">UW CHWS, WWAMI RHRC, the UW Department of Family Medicine<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and his role as a mentor and teacher <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were instrumental in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> build<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> new generations of health workforce and rural health researchers. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our sympathies are with Gary\u2019s wife, Shelly, and his children. In honor of Gary, memorials are welcome at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralhealthweb.org\/donationform\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">he National Rural Health Foundation<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> or <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyhomeanimalrescue.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Journey Home Animal Rescue<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\" data-wac-het=\"1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to report that the founder and long time Director of the University of Washington (UW) Center for Health Workforce Studies, Dr. L. Gary Hart, passed away April 13, 2020. Gary earned his PhD in Medical Geography at the UW in 1985 and co-founded, with Dr. Roger Rosenblatt, the WWAMI Rural Health Research [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dfm-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}