Roland N. Pittman is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1971. He then received post-doctoral training in microcirculation in the laboratory of Dr. Brian R. Duling in the Department of Physiology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Pittman also holds joint faculty appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research has focused on the transport of oxygen from the perspective of the microcirculation, and he has worked with several different colleagues to develop intravital microscopic methods to measure blood and tissue oxygenation. He has published more than 130 articles on oxygen transport and related topics.