Introduction
Richard E. Tracy is an American forensic pathologist and professor emeritus. His research activities have concentrated on atherosclerosis and hypertension.
Education
Tracy is a pathologist in the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He was a graduate in B.A from the University of Chicago. After his graduation, he joined as freshman-junior years in medical school (1955-1958). During these years he started his research on pathology and acted as USPHS Fellowship Trainee in Pathology. He got his M.D. and Ph.D. in 1961 from the University of Chicago.
Research and career
Tracy started his career as a pathologist and a research fellowship in the Department of Pathology, University of Chicago. He was an instructor in pathology, University of Chicago. At Oregon Health & Science University, he was an assistant professor of pathology and finally became professor emeritus in LSUHSC from 2005. He also worked as a visiting pathologist LSU division, Charity Hospital, New Orleans.
He is a Member of the Veterans Administration Merit Review Board Pathologist to the Coroner of Washington Parish.
Awards and honors
He received the Bausch and Lomb Medal for student research in 1961. He also won the Joseph A. Capps Award. He also has memberships in different associations such as the American Heart Association, Council on arteriosclerosis, International Academy of Pathology, American Society of Investigative Pathology, American Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society.
Notable publications in journals
- Longitudinal and Transverse Dimensions of Hypertrophied Cardiomyocytes in Human Left Ventricle (LV) at Autopsy; Heart Failure Might Result from Changes in Chamber Geometry without Contractile Weakening
- Heart failure and limit to cardiomyocyte hypertrophy: Lessons from autopsies.
- Cardiac myocyte sizes in right compared with left ventricle during overweight and hypertension
- Eccentric may differ from concentric left ventricular hypertrophy because of variations in cardiomyocyte numbers.
- Bilateral common carotid artery ultrasound for prediction of incident strokes using intima-media thickness and external diameter: an observational study.
- Cardiomyocyte size estimated from noninvasive measurements of left ventricular wall thickness and chamber diameter.
- Histologically Measured Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Correlates with Body Height as Strongly as with Body Mass Index.
- Association of Cardiomegaly with Coronary Artery Histopathology and its Relationship to Atheroma.
- Coronary Artery Circumferential Stress: Departure from Laplace Expectations with Aging.