Elizabeth Hirak Field is an

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and professor in the

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’s Department of Internal Medicine.

Education

Field received her BS degree in physics (magna cum laude) from

Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the fourteen schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher E ...

. She received her MD degree from Penn State's

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, where she also performed her residency in internal medicine. She conducted a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in both

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and

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School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Career and research

Field has served as a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine,

College of Medicine,

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, Iowa, since 1986. She also directs the VA Medical Center. Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laborator

Field has conducted researc

in Organ transplant, transplantation

, immunologic tolerance and CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells and has a patent pending for: CD4+CD25+ Inhibitory Hybridoma Clones. Field's research focuses on mechanisms of acquired immunologic tolerance by studying mouse models of neonatal tolerance and acquired tolerance in the adult. In addition, she has written numerous articles for peer-reviewed publications and has a variety of ongoing research support work.

Awards and honors

* VA Career Development Award, Northern Illinois Chapter of the Lupus Foundation * Outstanding Investigator of the Central Society for Clinical Research * Alumni Fellow Award, Penn State University College of Medicine * 2006

commencement speaker * Invited Speaker at the Keystone Symposium * Invited Speaker at the 6th Basic Sciences Symposium of the Transplantation Society in Asilomar, CA. * Invited Speaker at the 32nd Annual Immunology Conference in Chicago * Northern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation Fellowship * Pfizer Medical Research Merit Award * ARA Senior Rheumatology Scholar Award * Giannini Foundation Medical Research Fellow and Teaching Recognition for Introduction to Clinical Medicine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Elizabeth Hirak Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center American rheumatologists American immunologists Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni Stanford University School of Medicine alumni University of Iowa faculty