Richard Bradley Sack (October 25, 1935 – April 24, 2017) was an American physician and researcher noted for his contributions to the treatment of cholera.
[1] Sack was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota to Wilma Mary (Hyink) and Rev.
[1] Sack did his residency at the University of Washington, followed by a fellowship with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sack's lab first identified Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, a bacterium that is a major cause of diarrhea.
[1] He established two research centers funded by the NIH, one in Lima, Peru and one in the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona.