High Altitude Medicine & Biology
Published in Association with Mary Ann Liebert
The Official Journal of: International Society for Mountain Medicine
eISSN:
15578682 | ISSN:
15270297
The only peer-reviewed journal covering the medical and biological issues that impact human life at high altitudes. The journal delivers critical findings on the impact of high altitude on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility, and other diseases. It covers the full spectrum of high-altitude life sciences from pathology to human and animal ecology.
High Altitude Medicine & Biology is the only peer-reviewed journal covering the medical and biological issues that impact human life at high altitudes. The Journal delivers critical findings on the impact of high altitude on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility, and other diseases. It covers the full spectrum of high altitude life sciences from pathology to human and animal ecology.
High Altitude Medicine & Biology coverage includes:
Hypoxia
Physiology
Pulmonology and cardiology
Comparative and evolutionary biology
Pharmacology
Anthropology
Pathogenesis
High Altitude Medicine & Biology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Erik R. Swenson, MD, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System; Associate Editors Hermann Brugger, MD; Andrew M. Luks, MD; and other leading investigators.
Audience: Clinicians, cell biologists, physiologists, evolutionary biologists, environmental medicine specialists, respiratory and pulmonology specialists, among others
Editor-in-Chief
| Erik R Swenson, MD | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Moultonborough, NH, USA |
Deputy Editor
| Benjamin Honigman, MD | Denver, CO, USA |
Associate Editors, International Society for Mountain Medicine
| Hermann Brugger, MD | Innsbruck Medical Univ, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy |
| Andrew M Luks, MD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
Editorial Board Members
| Philip Ainslie, PhD | The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Peter Bartsch | Medical University Clinic, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Buddha Basnyat, MD | Nepal International Clinic, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Cynthia M Beall | Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Beth A Beidleman, SCD | Us Army Research Inst Envrnmntl Med, Natick, MA, USA |
| Marc M Berger, MD | Salk Institute, Salzburg, Austria |
| Tom Brutsaert | State University Of New York Albany, Albany, NY, USA |
| Keith R Burgess, MBB, PhD | University Of Sydney, Sydney New South Wales, Australia |
| Jose Calbet, PhD | University Of Navarra, Tudela, Spain |
| Annalisa Cogo | Centro Di Ricerce Su Asma E, Ferrara, Italy |
| Trevor Day, PhD | Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada |
| Tadej Debevec, PhD | University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Jerome A Dempsey | John Rankin Lab Of Pulmonary Med Uw, Madison, WI, USA |
| Glen E Foster, PhD | University Of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada |
| Michael Furian, PhD | University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Max Gassmann, PhD | University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Ri Li Ge | Qinghai Medical College, Qinghai, China |
| Olivier Girard, PhD | University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia |
| Colin Grissom, MD | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Peter H Hackett, MD | Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| Masayuki Hanaoka, MD | Shinshu University, Nagano Prefecture, Japan |
| N Stuart Harris, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Milton, MA, USA |
| Christopher Imray, MD | Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Catherine M Ivy, PhD | Western University, London, ON, Canada |
| Colleen G Julian, PhD | University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA |
| Bengt Kayser | University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Linda Keyes | Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Benjamin D Levine | Inst For Exercise & Envir, Dallas, TX, USA |
| Grant S Lipman, MD | Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, USA |
| Jamie H Macdonald, PhD | Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom |
| Marco Maggiorini, MD | University Hospital, Schindellegi, Switzerland |
| Heimo Mairbaurl, PhD | University Hospital Heidelberg & Grmn Lng Ctr, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Gregoire P Millet, PhD | University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Robert Naeije, MD, PhD | Free University Of Brussels Medical School, Brussels, Belgium |
| Qadar Pasha, MD | Institute Of Genomics And Inte, New Delhi, India |
| Josef Prchal, MD | Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Jean-Paul Richalet | Universite Paris Nord, Bobigny Cedex, France |
| Robert Roach | University Of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA |
| George Rodway, PhD | University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA |
| Robert B Schoene, MD | Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, Bozeman, MT, USA |
| Tatum Simonson, PhD | University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Hilde Spielvogel | Instttuto Boliviano De Biologia De Altura, La Paz, Bolivia |
| Jay Storz | University Of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA |
| Giacomo Strapazzon, MD | Eurac Research, Bozen, Italy |
| Andrew Subudhi | University Of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA |
| Wu Tianyi | High Altitude Med Res Inst Qinghai Hosp, Qinghai, China |
| Silvia Ulrich, MD | University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Francisco Villafuerte, PhD | Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru |
| Denis Vinnikov, MD, PhD | Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Peter D Wagner | Ucsd Dept Of Medicine 0623A, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Tanna Wuren, PhD | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Ken Zafren, MD | Stanford University Medical Center, Anchorage, AK, USA |
| Gutavo R Zubieta-Calleja | High Altitude Pathology Ins, La Paz, Bolivia |
Founding Editor
| John B West | Ucsd Dept. Of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA |