Our current research interests and goals are focusing on the serum transport of thyroid hormone in health and disease and its relationship to pituitary-thyroid regulation. There is a need for an accurate way to measure free thyroid hormone under conditions of altered transport.
Transport is altered in some seriously ill patients and as the result of some medications.
Our work includes the determination of the systematic bias in thyroid hormone assays and the determination of conditions associated with altered TSH regulation in humans. We are also currently determining the diagnostic utility of thyroid function tests both for population screening and for patient monitoring. Our work will lead to improved methods of diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders. From 1965-67 he was a postdoctoral Bank of America Giannini Foundation Fellow. Dr. Wilcox joined the faculty of the School of Medicine in 1965.