Programme - Tuesday 23 May 2017


Tuesday 23 May 2017

  • 8.30 am
    Registration and tea and coffee


  • 9.00 am
    Welcome and introduction
    Mike Grocott and Dan Martin


    Session 1: Oxygen in context - Chair: Mike Grocott

  • 9.05 am
    Who discovered oxygen?
    John Severinghaus

  • 9.30 am
    The story of altitude research
    Jim Milledge

  • 9.55 am
    Anthropology of environmental hypoxia
    Cynthia Beall

  • 10.20 am
    Discussion


  • 10.30 am
    Tea and coffee break


    Session 2: Oxygen physiology - Chair: Daniel Martin

  • 11.00 am
    Measuring blood gases
    John Severinghaus

  • 11.25 am
    Oxygen Physiology in humans
    Sue Ward


  • 11.50 am
    Comparative oxygen physiology
    Thomas Gorr

  • 12.15 pm
    Discussion


  • 12.30 pm
    Lunch


    Session 3: Oxygen in clinical practice - Chair: Mike Grocott

  • 1.30 pm
    Optimising oxygen delivery: old news?
    Monty Mythen

  • 1.55 pm
    Do patients acclimatise?
    Hugh Montgomery

  • 2.20 pm
    Oxygen therapy: permissive hypoxaemia
    Dan Martin

  • 2.45 pm
    Discussion


  • 3.00 pm
    Tea and coffee break


    Session 4: Altitude medicine - Chair: Denny Levett

  • 3.30 pm
    High altitude and acclimatisation
    Erik Swenson

  • 3.55 pm
    Altitude illness
    Marco Maggiorini

  • 4.20 pm
    Altitude illness treatments
    Peter Bartsch

  • 4.45 pm
    Discussion


    Session 5: In conversation... - Chair: Ned Gilbert

  • 5.00 pm
    In conversation with....
    Ned Gilbert, John West, John Severinghaus, Jim Milledge and Tom Hornbein


  • 5.45 pm
    Completion of evaluation form and close of meeting