Richard E. Tracy

Richard E. Tracy is an American forensic pathologist and professor emeritus. His research activities have concentrated on atherosclerosis and hypertension.[1]

Richard E. Tracy
Alma mater
Awards
  • Received Joseph A. Capps Award in (1965)
Scientific career
InstitutionsLouisiana State University
Website

Education

Tracy is a pathologist in the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.[2][3] He was a graduate in B.A from the University of Chicago.[4] After his graduation, he joined as freshman-junior years in medical school (1955-1958). During these years he started his research on pathology and acted as USPHS Fellowship Trainee in Pathology. He got his M.D. and Ph.D. in 1961 from the University of Chicago.[5]

Research and career

Tracy started his career as a pathologist and a research fellowship in the Department of Pathology, University of Chicago. He was an instructor in pathology, University of Chicago. At Oregon Health & Science University, he was an assistant professor of pathology and finally became professor emeritus in LSUHSC from 2005. He also worked as a visiting pathologist LSU division, Charity Hospital, New Orleans.[6]

He is a Member of the Veterans Administration Merit Review Board Pathologist to the Coroner of Washington Parish.

Awards and honors

He received the Bausch and Lomb Medal for student research in 1961. He also won the Joseph A. Capps Award. He also has memberships in different associations such as the American Heart Association, Council on arteriosclerosis, International Academy of Pathology, American Society of Investigative Pathology, American Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society.

References
  1. "Richard E. Tracy, MD, PhD - LSUHSC School of Medicine". www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. "Dr. Richard Tracy, MD – New Orleans, LA | Pathology on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  3. "Dr. Richard Tracy, MD - Reviews - New Orleans, LA". www.healthgrades.com. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. Tracy Richard E.; Merchant Edmund B.; Kao. Vincent C. (1961-03-01). "On the Antigenic Identity of Human Serum Beta and Alpha-2 Lipoproteins, and Their Identification in the Aortic Intima". Circulation Research. 9 (2): 472–479. doi:10.1161/01.RES.9.2.472. PMID 13777808.
  5. "Cardiovascular Hypertrophy and Systemic Heart Failure: Critical Correlation Established by Dr. Richard Tracy – Press Release". googleness. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  6. MENAFN. "Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy and Systolic Heart Failure: A Critical Correlation Established by Dr. Richard Tracy". menafn.com. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
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