Gardiner Lapham

Gardiner’s four-year old son, Henry, died in 2008 after suffering a seizure during sleep, a phenomenon referred to as Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). He was an otherwise healthy boy until his diagnosis of epilepsy, only 5 weeks before his unexpected death.

Gardiner has a background in nursing and public health. She has worked as an emergency room nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and as an international health policy advisor for CARE. More recently, she has been involved with local primary health care in Washington, DC. She chaired the board of the Washington Free Clinic from 2004-2007 and is currently a director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington’s preeminent HIV/AIDS clinic.

Gardiner received her bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Virginia and her Masters in Public Health from Emory University.

Gardiner and her husband, Nick, also own an organic fruit and vegetable farm in Virginia. They live in Washington, DC with their younger son, Jack and newborn twins, Phoebe and Thomas.

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