Dr. William Richards, professor as well chair of performance at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, has been awarded a federally funded inquiry grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $215,239.
Dr. Richards’ grant is titled “Biomagnetic Signals of Intestinal Ischemia.” The enquiry examines the upshot of partial to shut-total chronic ischemia, or insufficient blood menstruation.
In his enquiry, Dr. Richards will hold to educate recording together with analysis techniques that will allow him to differentiate inwards addition to distinguish the multiple contributions to the biomagnetic champaign from dissimilar parts of the tyke intestine. All living organisms create a magnetic champaign, inwards addition to the purpose of studying the biomagnetic champaign is to find new techniques for medical diagnosis every bit well to gain information nigh normal physiology.
Biomagnetic imaging methods have facilitated the assessment of the intestinal boring moving ridge activity inward humans. Non-invasive imaging modalities allow a medico to brand increasingly accurate diagnoses too return precise together with measured modes of handling. Current uses of imaging technologies include laboratory medicine, operation, radiations therapy, nuclear medicine equally expert equally diagnostic radiology.
The ultimate destination of this projection is to fix a sensitive magnetometer to mensurate out weak magnetic fields, called a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID), into a non-invasive diagnostic modality for patients with mesenteric ischemia. The mesenteric arteries are the arteries that furnish blood to your large equally skillful as steal-size intestines.
Mesenteric ischemia occurs when blood cannot current through your arteries every flake practiced every bit it should, as adept every bit your intestines exercise non concord the necessary oxygen to perform ordinarily. Symptoms of the acquire-get phase of mesenteric ischemia include severe abdominal pain together with the passage of bloody stools. If ischemia continues, abdominal pain tin larn widespread, the belly tin can acquire tender to the touch, inwards improver to bowel motility decreases.
Dr. Richards received his medical grade from the University of Maryland School Of Medicine inward Baltimore. He completed his internship at the University of Florida inward Gainesville, Fla., too his performance residency at the University of Maryland. Following his residency, Dr. Richards completed a surgical company inwards portal hypertension together with endoscopy at Emory University inward Atlanta. In add together-on, he also completed a enquiry fellowship inwards gastrointestinal drive at the Vanderbilt Medical Center inwards Nashville.
Dr. Richards is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons equally well equally a fellow fellow member of numerous professional societies, including the American Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of American Gastrointestinal as well as Endoscopic Surgeons, the American Society of Metabolic too Bariatric Surgeons likewise the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
