Michael Field (physician)

Michael Field (1933 – 2014) was an American gastroenterologist celebrated for his work on diarrhea.

[1] Born in London and raised in Hamburg until the age of 5, Field and his family fled Germany the day before Kristallnacht[2] and relocated to Pueblo, Colorado.

These advances led to the development Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) for cholera and other diarrheal diseases.

[1] ORT has proven to be a major breakthrough in child health, with an important role in reducing the number of deaths in children under the age of five.

[3] In 1984 Field was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine for research on diarrhea together with John S. Fordtran and William Greenough.