{"id":2904,"date":"2020-04-28T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/rhrc\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2020-04-28T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:28:55","slug":"in-memoriam-wwami-rhrc-founder-l-gary-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/2020\/04\/28\/in-memoriam-wwami-rhrc-founder-l-gary-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: WWAMI RHRC Founder L. Gary Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/gary-hart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2905\" \/>We are sad to report that Professor Gary  Hart, the long-time Director and Principal Investigator of the WWAMI  RHRC passed away on April 13, 2020. Gary was a hugely accomplished and  influential person in the Department of Family Medicine at the  University of Washington. His enormous contributions to rural health  services research and health workforce research earned him a national  and international reputation as an innovative and meticulous researcher.  He was strongly committed to improving health care for rural people,  and deeply interested in the application of research to rural health  care policy problems, including rural workforce supply, access to  obstetrical care, and complex issues in rural taxonomies. Gary was  incredibly generous with his time and his ideas (like his friend and  collaborator Roger Rosenblatt, he was\u202foverflowing with research ideas!). Over the years he coached and mentored scores of researchers many of whom went on to distinguished research careers at UW and other  institutions.\u202f He earned his PhD in Medical Geography at the UW in 1985  and co-founded the UW&rsquo;s WWAMI Rural Health Research Center with Roger  Rosenblatt in 1988. He served as the Center&rsquo;s Director from 1989 until  2007.\u202f He was also the PI and Director of the WWAMI Center for Health  Workforce Studies from 1998 until 2007. \u202fIn 2007, Gary left UW for a  rural health position at the University of Arizona, later moving to the  University of North Dakota where he served as the Director of the Center  for Rural Health at UND&rsquo;s School of Medicine and Health. \u202fHe leaves  behind a legacy of pioneering rural health services scholarship,  generosity, and kindness. We extend our sympathy to Gary&rsquo;s wife, Shelly and to his children. In honor of Gary, memorials are welcome at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralhealthweb.org\/donationform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The National Rural Health Foundation<\/a>\u202for\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyhomeanimalrescue.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Journey Home Animal Rescue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam: WWAMI RHRC Founder L. Gary Hart. <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/rhrc\/in-memoriam-wwami-rhrc-founder-l-gary-hart\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rhrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/rhrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}