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[[image: me in france.jpg|thumb|275px|right|David at Lasagne]]
== About me ==
== About me ==
I am British Heart Foundation Lecturer and University Lecturer in Developmental Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham. I am married with 5 children.
Email: [mailto:david.gardner@nottingham.ac.uk david.gardner@nottingham.ac.uk]<br />
Click for my University webpage: [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vet/news_and_events/by-role.php?id=ODAyNTAx&page_var=personal david gardner]
== What I hope to get out of this project ==
Wikivet is an amazing collaboration between the Vet Schools which offers an educational resource of real value to undergraduate vet students.
== My best learning experience ==
== My best learning experience ==
and why it was good
Almost definately my tutorials with my PhD supervisor, Professor Alan Jackson and other PhD students in the Nutrition Dept at University of Southampton.
== and why it was good ==
He didn't just teach us facts but rather, taught us how to think.
== Pathology that interests me ==
== Pathology that interests me ==
My research into the developmental programming of obesity and renal failure necessarily takes me into the pathophysiological arena of hepatic steatosis and chronic renal failure.
== Pathology that is difficult ==
== Pathology that is difficult ==
Being a physiologist, all pathology is difficult
==Day one thoughts==
==Day one thoughts==
It was a really valuable day to have the majority of Vet Schools represented and much was learnt.
===What (three things) I learnt today===
===What (three things) I learnt today===
* How to edit my individual page
* How best to engage the Nottingham wikistudents i have employed for Summer 2008
* That this venture is certainly the most collaborative and potentially great project i have been involved with
===What I still need to learn===
===What I still need to learn===
* How to further edit my individual page
* How to use mediawiki
* How to up my grant success rate from 35% to 50%
===How I feel about what has happened today===
===How I feel about what has happened today===
* It was a valuable day and i really think everyone moved foward with it positively
* The project is really beginning to gain momentum
* The University provided coffee was just amazingly awful and i apologise on behalf of all at Nottingham