Robert F. Schilling

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Dr. Robert Frederick Schilling, M.D. is a physician who is best known for his research on Vitamin B₁₂. Schilling is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He is the namesake of the Schilling test.

Education and postdoctoral work

Schilling received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. He received postdoctoral training at Philadelphia General Hospital in West Philadelphia, Boston City Hospital in Boston, and at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.

Work with Vitamin B₁₂

His work on detection of radio-cobalt-labeled B₁₂ in the urine led to a test for vitamin B₁₂ absorption named the "Schilling test" in his honor. The Schilling test determines if a patient has pernicious anemia, a disease caused by malabsorption of B₁₂ due to lack of intrinsic factor. The Schilling test in a second stage may also be used as a control test for other causes of malabsorption of Vitamin B₁₂ even if it is bound to intrinsic factor (B₁₂ deficiency which is not pernicious anemia).

References

http://www.hematology.org/education/legends/Schilling/index.cfm Accessed Oct 10, 2008

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Robert F. Schilling

Education and postdoctoral work

Work with Vitamin B12

References

Work with Vitamin B₁₂