New Staff Hires and Promotions: January 8, 2009

Posted 11:47 AM, January 8, 2009, by jaruiz

Alice Gardner, MM, recently joined our Department as an administrative associate in the Abdominal Imaging Section. Prior to coming to California in 2004, Ms. Gardner lived for most of her adult life on the back roads of rural Vermont, raising her family in a picturesque valley while running a home business growing and drying flowers. In Brattleboro, Vermont, she worked at the School for International Training as an administrative manager for their master's programs. After moving to California, Ms. Gardner worked for over two years as a seminar and program coordinator at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. She earned her master's degree in management from Cambridge College in 2000.

Although she lived in Vermont for most of her life, Ms. Gardner grew up in Connecticut and also spent seven years in Scotland at the Findhorn Foundation. From a young age, she has been interested in spirituality and in 2002, after discovering the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, she spent five days at a retreat led by Mr. Tolle and subsequently authored a book about her experiences entitled Life Beyond Belief.

According to Ms. Gardner, her four years in California have been great: "I am thoroughly enjoying the wonderfully temperate climate here, as well as the social environment with my friends, family, and as a member of the Stanford community. I enjoy nature photography very much, and I have included some of my recent photos for the blog. Also, my last name, Gardner, is very fitting because I really am a gardener; I am certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society in England, and I enjoy the year-round flowers and plants in California a lot. I love the great outdoors and enjoy camping, walking, biking to work, and just plain being outdoors."