Memoir of an Academic Gastroenterologist
Fordtran, John S.
As a public health officer on the Navajo reservation and later while working with Franz Ingelfinger in Boston to become a gastroenterologist, Dr. Fordtran conceived of and developed an accurate method for measuring intestinal absorption from the human intestine. He then joined the faculty of UT Southwestern in Dallas, where he and others used that method to determine the mechanisms of electrolyte and glucose absorption. For this research, he r...