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Date, Time & Location:	Wednesday, 10/09/2013   12:10p – 1:00 p.m.   DeBakey Classroom—M423, Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker:	Christian A. Otto, M.D., C.C.F.P. (EM), BCM Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Emergency Medicine  Senior Scientist, Division of Life Sciences, Universities Space Research Association
Lecture Title:	“NASA’s newest Human Spaceflight risk: The Visual Impairment Intracranial Pressure Syndrome-Epidemiology and Pathophysiology”
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the VIIP Syndrome in brief, and name the two primary precipitants of raised intracranial pressure in space. 2. Describe how cardiovascular risk and central venous pressure impact susceptibility to the VIIP Syndrome. 3. List three technology transfers to patients on Earth arising from investigation of the VIIP Syndrome.
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Thank you! Nancy Gibbins Center for Space Medicine Baylor College of Medicine [log in to unmask] 713-798-7639