Dr. Lawrence Garner was Chief Neurologist, founder and administrator of the Summerholt Institute. Dr. Garner was known to be controversial and operated on the fringes of acceptable medical practices. He experimented on his patients with little ethical constraints and highly questionable motives. However, his malevolent treatments backfired and brought his evil experiments to an end. He kidnapped Clark Kent and placed him in his memory-treatment tank full of meteor rock liquid. He was electrocuted by his own contraption and is currently in a coma at Metropolis General Hospital.