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:  We need a student volunteer to create and lead the quiz questions.
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, 9th 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