James Aguayo-Martel
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Dr. James B. Aguayo Martel, M.D. M.P.H., a graduate of Stanford, Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical School was trained as a scientist, physician, and community servant. While at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He led a research team, which developed the NMR Microscopy, a technique for obtaining microscopic 3 dimensional images of living things non-invasively leading to non-invasive biopsy objects (Figure1). Pioneering the technique of deuterium NMR spectroscopy, he developed a method for studying the metabolism of biological organisms using the isotope of hydrogen, deuterium. His work culminated in a five dimensional NMR analysis using a combine NMR imaging and microscopic technique the lining lens while at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In the early 1980’s while at Harvard Medical School he was among the first investigators to use NMR spectroscopy to study lining organisms. His studies led to further understanding of the metabolic processes in the lens which lead to diabetic cataract. During this time, in collaboration with Dr. Leo Chylack, Jr, he demonstrated the statistical correlation between diabetes and posterior subcapsular cataracts. Aguayo Martel further probed the association of human behavior and cataract formation using log-linear regression analysis.
Aguayo Martel is also noted for his work in low illumination ophthalmoscopy and co-inventing the technique of Intraepikeratophakia a precursor to the technique of LASIK. He is noted for his work on vitreous hemorrhage, intraocular foreign bodies and ocular trauma.
Dr. Aguayo Martel remains active as the Chief of Surgery at The Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento as an Ophthalmologic Surgeon.