Michael Field (medic)
Michael Field (born July 20, 1933 in London , † August 23, 2014 in Bangor , Maine ) was an American medic.
Life
Field was Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Physiology, and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University . He was also the director of gastroenterology at Columbia University's New York Presbyterian Hospital . Before that he was at the University of Chicago and in the 1950s he was at the Harvard Biophysics Laboratory with Arthur K. Solomon.
He was known for research on ion transport in the intestine in the area of microvilli .
In 1983 he received the King Faisal Prize for Medicine with John S. Fordtran and William Greenough for research on diarrhea. He worked with Greenough in the early 1970s on the effects of cholera toxin.
With his research, he also contributed to the finding that the absorption of fluid and the salts dissolved in it from the intestine into the blood is promoted by the presence of larger molecules, with corresponding effects on the rehydration therapy for diarrheal diseases, for example by adding rice to the usual place (Oral Rehydration Therapy). This was picked up by Greenough and others in the late 1970s, especially since cereal based ORT is often too expensive in Third World conditions .
Fonts (selection)
- as editor: Diarrheal diseases (Current topics in gastroenterology). Elsevier, New York 1991, ISBN 0-444-01573-6 .
- as editor with John S. Fordtran , Stanley G. Schultz : Secretory Diarrhea (Clinical Physiology Series). Oxford University Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-683-03201-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugene B. Chang, Stefano Guandalini, Mrinalini C. Rao, Joseph H. Sellin, Carol E. Semrad: Michael Field, MD (1933-2014) . In: Gastroenterology . tape 147 , no. 6 , December 2014, p. 1191–1192 , doi : 10.1053 / j.gastro.2014.10.026 .
- ↑ Michael Field, William Greenough, David Fromm, Qais al-Awqati in: Journal of Clinical Investigation , Vol. 51 (1972), ISSN 0021-9738 .
- ↑ Michael Field: New strategies for treating watery diarrhoe . In: New England Journal of Medicine , 297, 1191 (1977), Editorial. See also William Greenough: Status of cereal based oral rehydration therapy . In: Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research , Vol. 5 (1987) December, ISSN 0253-8768 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Field, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 2014 |
| Place of death | Bangor , Maine |