After Cotopaxi

Mountain & Marine Medicine is refreshed and energized from our recent successful CME course in Ecuador: High Altitude Medicine. We had a good turnout among US participants and Ecuadoreans. We will be assembling and posting amazing photos from our ascent of Cotopaxi, a live volcano at 19,300 feet in the Ecuadorean Andes.

Next stop: Kailua Kona Hawai'i

Here is our recent posting from the tenfootstop blog:

Joe Alcock writes:I am organizing a continuing medical education course on dive medicine: Marine and Diving Medicine at Jack's Diving Locker in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii this August. Topics will include marine envenomations, DCI and the significance of patent foramen ovale, hyperbaric medicine updates, tech diving, and a variety of other subjects of interest to members of this forum. Our guest faculty includes Michael Strauss MD, director of the baromedical unit at Long Beach Memorial Hospital and co-author of "Diving Science". We also arranged diving charters and will practice simulated diving accidents and first aid on the dive boat. We expect a small group of attendees - about 25 or so - that will permit hands-on teaching and a more interactive approach than most conferences. CME is provided by the University of New Mexico, up to 24 category 1 AMA credits.The course weblink is:
http://www.mountainandmarinemedicine.com/Kona2006.html
If this sounds interesting, I invite you to join us!Joe Alcock
mail@mountainandmarinemedicine.com