Elizabeth Hirak Field is an academic scholar and professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine.[1]
Field received her BS degree in physics (magna cum laude) from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. She received her MD degree from Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, where she also performed her residency in internal medicine. She conducted a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in both immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Field has served as a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, since 1986. She also directs the VA Medical Center. Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory [1].
Field has conducted research [2] in transplantation immunology, 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. [citation needed]