James Morgan Bartow Bloodworth Jr. (February 21, 1925 – September 22, 2006) was an American physician, pathologist, and researcher on diabetes mellitus.
Bloodworth also served as chief of the laboratory service at the William Shainline Middleton Veterans Hospital (MVH) in Madison until 1989.
[5] Bloodworth’s personal research interests concerned diabetes mellitus, other endocrine disorders, and renal pathology, and he spoke at many national meetings on those topics.
[6][7] He employed histochemistry and ultrastructural studies to assess lesions of the pancreatic islet cells and blood vessels in patients with diabetes mellitus.
In particular, his studies of diabetic retinopathy, in collaboration with ophthalmological colleagues at UWMS, defined the progression of changes that eventuate in retinal hemorrhages, plaques, exudates, and other lesions producing visual compromise.
[12] His experimental studies in dogs showed that meticulous control of glucose metabolism could effectively prevent diabetic angiopathy.
[13] For his contributions to the field of endocrinology, Bloodworth received the prestigious Eli Lilly Research Award[1][14] on behalf of the American Diabetes Association in 1963.