John S. Fordtran

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John Satterfield Fordtran (born November 15, 1931 in San Antonio ) was an American physician, professor of gastroenterology and from 1979 to 1995 head of internal medicine at Baylor University in Dallas .

Fordtran studied at Tulane University in New Orleans (MD degree 1956). He had his specialist training at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas (internship 1956/57, then residency). From 1960 to 1962 he conducted research at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. From 1963 he was at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , where he began as an assistant professor in 1963, then became a professor and headed gastroenterology. At the same time he was still at Parkland Memorial Hospital. From 1991 to 1999 he was President of the Baylor Research Institute. He was the first Joseph B. Kirsner Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago.

In 1984 he received the King Faisal Prize in Medicine for research on diarrheal diseases with William Greenough (Director of the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases in Dhaka , Bangladesh and later at Johns Hopkins University) and Michael Field (Professor at Columbia University) . He has also received numerous other prizes (such as the Julius Friedenwald Medal of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1993 and the Kirsner Prize in 1990, the Janssen Award in Gastroenterology for his life's work) and is editor of a standard work on gastroenterology with Sleisenger.

With regard to diarrheal diseases and their treatment, he examined, among other things, osmotic diarrhea in the 1960s and thereafter , caused by small (sugar) molecules in food that draw water and dissolved salt from the blood into the intestine through osmotic effects. The effect plays a major role in the rehydration treatment of diarrheal diseases.

He has published over 180 scientific articles. Specifically, he dealt with the physiology and diseases of water absorption and secretion in the digestive tract.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians .

He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation from 1972 to 1977 and Editor of Gastroenterology from 1977 to 1981 .

Fonts

  • with Marvin Sleisenger (editor) Gastrointestinal disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis, management , Saunders, Philadelphia, 1973, 1983, 1993
  • with Michael Field, Stanley G. Schultz (Editor) Secretory Diarrhea , Oxford University Press 1988

Web links

  • MA Ramsay, HL Wilsey, B. Russell, GJ Race: History of research activities at Baylor University Medical Center. In: Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). Volume 17, Number 3, July 2004, pp. 292-303, PMID 16200114 , PMC 1200666 (free full text).
  • biography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fordtran, TW Locklear Ionic constituents and osmolality of gastric and small-intestinal fluids after eating , Amer. J. Digest Diseases, Volume 11, 1966, pp. 503-511
personal data
SURNAME Fordtran, John S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fordtran, John Satterfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio