Harold Ray Garner (born 5 February 1954), known informally as "Skip", is a biophysicist with research careers in plasma physics, bioengineering and bioinformatics.
In his last six years at GA, he was a founding member of "The Institute", an internal think tank, where he developed artificial intelligence/expert systems, new particle accelerators, high temperature superconductors, stealth/defense technologies and biology software and instrumentation.
[5] In a 2015 settlement, he was appointed executive director of the newly created Office of Medical Informatics Translation, Training and Ethics (MITTE) for four years without limits on outside employment.
[5] In April 2016, Garner became a member of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine as a professor of biomedicine and executive director, Primary Care Research Network and the VCOM Center for Bioinformatics and Genetics.
In 2019, Garner was also appointed as the interim associate dean for biomedical affairs for the Carolinas Campus of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.