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Date, Time & Location:


Wednesday, 11/04/2015   12:10 - 1:00 p.m.
Kleberg Auditorium, Baylor College of Medicine


Speaker:


Christian A. Otto, M.D., M.MSc.
BCM Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Senior Scientist, Division of Life Sciences
Universities Space Research Association



Lead Scientist, NASA Visual Impairment Intracranial Pressure Risk


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
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