25th Anniversary of research in high altitude
physiology and medicine at the new capanna
Margherita
October 9-12, 2008 Teatro Civico, Varallo Val Sesia, Italy
Capanna Regina Margherita, Punta Gnifetti 4559m (Monte Rosa massiv)
Aim of the meeting
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of research activities in the new capanna Margherita build in
1979 and review the research activities in high altitude physiology and medicine performed at
the hut.
Scientific committee
Peter Bärtsch, Germany
Annalisa Cogo, Italy
Marco Maggiorini, Switzerland
Oswald Oelz, Switzerland
Local Organizers
Andrea Enzio
Giorgio Tiraboschi
Mail stones
 Opening of the congress, October 9, 16:00
 Margherita research day, October 10
 How to prepare to high altitude, at October 11
 Patients at high altitude, at October 11
 Closure of the congress October 11, 13:00
 Excursion with dinner October 11, afternoon.
Faculty
Andrea Aliverti, Italy
Corrado Angelini, Italy
Damian Baily, United
Kingdom
Ralf Baumgartner,
Switzerland
Hanspeter Brunner,
Switzerland
Paolo Cerretelli, Italy
Christoph Dehnert,
Germany
Bengt Kayser, Switzerland
Susi Kriemler, Switzerland
Yvonne Nussbaumer,
Switzerland
Niels Olsen, Denmark
Delfino Legnani, Italy
Gianfranco Parati, Italy
Fabiola Léon-Velarde, Peru
Oriana Pecchio, Italy
Carsten Lundby; Denmark
Heimo Mairbäurl, Germany
Jean-Paul Richalet, France
Rob Roach, USA
Giorgio Mazzuero, Italy
Claudio Sartori, Switzerland
Enrico Donegani, Italy
Andrea Ermolao, Italy
Peter Hackett, USA
Chris Imray, United
Kingdom
Jim Milledge, United
Kingdom
Giuseppe Miserocchi, Italy
Piergiorgio Montarolo, Italy
Urs Scherrer, Switzerland
Erik Swenson, USA
Peter Wagner, USA
Robert Naeije, Belgium
John B. West, USA
Scientific Program
Thursday 09.10.2008
Opening session
Chairs: Annalisa Cogo, Peter Bärtsch
16.00-16.15
16.15-16.30
16.30-17.00
Opening remarks
Annibale Salsa,
Giorgio Tiraboschi,
25 years research at the CRM
Oswald Oelz
Opening lecture: Why high altitude research? Paolo Cerretelli
History of high altitude physiology
Chairs: Annalisa Cogo, Peter Bärtsch
17.10-17.30
17.30-17.50
17.50-18.10
18.10-18.30
18.30-18.50
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Paul Bert and collaborators Jean-Paul Richalet
Angelo Mosso
Piergiorgio Montarolo
John Scott Haldane
Jim Milledge
Carlos Monge
Fabiola Léon-Valerde
Jack Reeves
John B. West
Friday 10.10.2008
Adaptation to high altitude
Chairs: Paolo Cerretelli, Urs Scherrer
08.30-08.50
08.50-09.10
09.10-09.30
09.30-09.50
09.50-10.10
Breathing at high altitude
Yvonne Nussbaumer
Sub-clinical lung edema, does it exist?
Annalisa Cogo
Oxygen transport and delivery to the tissue
Heimo Mairbäurl
Role of endothelin and beta-adrenergic receptors
Gianfranco Parati
Renal adaptation and fluid homeostasis
Niels Olsen
Coffee break
Exercise physiology at high altitude
Chairs: Bengt Kayser, Robert Naeije
10.40-11.00
11.00-11.20
11.20-11.40
11.40-12.00
Cardiac function and exercise limitation
Oxygen uptake and exercise limitation
Lung volumes during exercise
Oxygen extraction and exercise limitation
Hanspeter Brunner
Peter Wagner
Andrea Aliverti
Carsten Lundby
High altitude illness I
Chairs: Jim Milledge, Fabiola Léon-Valerde
12.00-12.20
12.20-12.40
12.40-13.00
Epidemiology of high altitude illness
Peter Hackett
Impaired hypoxic ventilatory response, a risk factor? Robert Roach
Brain circulation in high altitude illness
Chris Imray
High altitude illness II
Chairs: Corrado Angelini, Jean-Paul Riachlet
14.30-14.50
14.50-15.10
15.10-15.30
AMS a neurologic disease?
Ralf Baumgartner
Is AMS a mild form of high altitude cerebral edema? Damian Baily
Prevention and treatment of AMS
Oswald Oelz
coffee break
High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE)
Chairs: John B. West, Giuseppe Miserocchi
16.00-16.20
16.20-16.40
16.40-17.00
17.00-17.20
17.20-17.40
18.00
20.00
Pulmonary circulation at high altitude
Robert Naeije
Labor and susceptibility to HAPE
Claudio Sartori
Pulmonary capillary leak and coagulation
Erik Swenson
Alveolar fluid clearance and HAPE susceptibility Urs Scherrer
Prevention and treatment
Marco Maggiorini
ISMM executive committee meeting
Gala dinner
Saturday 11.10.2008
How to prepare for altitude
Chairs: Enrico Donegani, Peter Wagner
09.00-09.20
Testing high altitude susceptibility and performance Peter Bärtsch
09.20-09.40
Training and artificial hypoxia
Christoph Dehnert
09.40-10.00
Are children susceptible to high altitude disease?
Susi Kriemler
10.00-10.20
Do we need drugs to better perform at high altitude? Bengt Kayser
Patients at altitude
Chairs: Oriana Pecchio, Hanspeter Brunner
11.10-11.30
Cardiac patients at high altitude
Giorgio Mazzuero
11.30-11.50
Lung patients high altitude
Delfino Legnani
11.50-12.10
Diabetic patients at high altitude
Andrea Ermolao
12.10-12.20
Closing remarks
Annalisa Cogo,
Oswald Oelz
Recreational activity
Saturday afternoon after the end of the congress excursion to Alagna-Valsesia with easy walk
to the Rifugio Pastore (impressive panorama of the Monte-Rosa south-east face), visit of the
Valser Museum and dinner.
Separate meetings
Friday October 10, 2008 18:00 – 19:30; International Society of Mountain Medicine executive
committee meeting
Endorsement
International Society of Mountain Medicine, Italian Alpine Club, Italian Society of Mountain
Medicine, Swiss Alpine Club, Swiss Society of Mountain Medicine.
Congress registration
Participants have to register via the congress secretariat at the University Hospital in Zurich.
Cony Cajet and Hanna Bosshard will be happy to receive your registration by e-mail
medizinische.ips@usz.ch including your full contact address date of arrival and departure, and
whether you participate to the gala dinner and/or to the excursion on Saturday afternoon. The
congress fee is 150 Euro until September 14, 2008, thereafter 200 Euro. A separate fee of 40
Euro is charged for the gala dinner and 50 Euro for the excursion with visit to the museum and
dinner. Payments details are given as soon as you registered.
Hotel reservation
The Consorzio VALSESIAin Operatori Turistici www.valsesiain.it will be happy the help you with
Hotel reservation and travel informations. Travel office contact address is info@valsesiain.it
Travel informations
By plane: Varallo Valsesia is at 70 km distance from Malpensa Airport and 110 km from
Airport Milano Linate. A bus connects Malpensa Airport with Novara railway station from
which you have direct trains to Varallo. Airport Milano Linate is connected with Malpensa
Airport by bus.
By train: The Varallo-Novara line links up Varallo with: Milano, Torino, Mortara, Pavia,
Alessandria, Genova. At Romagnano (on the way from Varallo to Novara) connections for:
Santhià-Torino, Arona-Sempione.
By bus: Daily direct connections from Milano and Torino
By car: Motorway A26 Genova Voltri – Sempione, exit Romagnano-Ghemme. Mainroad
SS299 to Varallo-Alagna Valsesia.
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