Regulation of Tissue Oxygenation, Second Edition: Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology: From Mol

Roland N. Pittman is a professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He received his S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966, his M.A. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1968, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1971. He then received postdoctoral training in microcirculation in the laboratory of Dr. Brian R. Duling in the Department of Physiology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Pittman also holds joint faculty appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research has focused on the transport of oxygen and its regulation from the perspective of the microcirculation, and he has worked with several different colleagues to develop intravital microscopic methods to measure blood and tissue oxygenation. He has published more than 150 articles on oxygen transport and related topics.