Dear Students,   

We still need someone to volunteer to lead the article review next week. Please let me know if you can help out.

Thanks,  Nancy

From: Gibbins, Nancy Saunders
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 4:07 PM
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Subject: BCM Space Medicine Journal Club - Tuesday, 8/18/2015 5:30-7:30 p.m. Board Room

Dear Students and Faculty,

The next BCM Space Medicine Journal Club will be held on Tuesday, 8/18/2015 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.   Please RSVP to me by Monday, 8/17/2015.

Readings: 

· Article Review: Gibb R., Ercoline B., Scharff L. (2011). Spatial disorientation: decades of pilot fatalities. Aviat Space Environ Med. 82 (7): 717-24.

Student Leader:  We need a student volunteer to lead this article.

· Chapter 6:   Spatial Orientation in Flight.  Student Leader:  Mark McLaughlin

Special Presentation:  Akshay Kothakonda, visiting student, will present “Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Manned Balloon Programs.”

Note:  Dr. Clark also included another article for your review, “Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation as an Analogue of Spatial Disorientation after Space flight.”

Center for Space Medicine Address: 

BioScience Research Collaborative
6500 Main Street, 9^th Floor – Meet in the Board Room
Houston, TX 77030-1402

As always, informal dinner will be provided followed by the article review, student presentation and chapter quiz questions.    

Thanks,

Nancy Gibbins

Center for Space Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine
713-798-7639