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Career perspectives

A commissioned series of career perspectives by experts in the field published in Extreme Physiology & Medicine. These are personal reviews and reflections by eminent academics of their life’s work, influences and career highlights.

  1. A career interest in thermoregulation research has included wide contrasts in the subjects of enquiry, extending from heat stroke to hypothermia, special investigations in many different purpose-built climatic...

    Authors: Kenneth John Collins
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2018 7:1
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  2. This review focuses on a career of unique opportunities to participate in various areas of research related to extreme physiology and medicine. My experience as a volunteer subject in exercise experiments cond...

    Authors: Victor A. Convertino
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2015 4:21
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  3. This invited autobiographical article pertains to 52 years as an exercise physiologist of which 16 years were devoted to being an active emeriti. Although the career pathway was circuitous in nature, once reso...

    Authors: Charles M Tipton
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2015 4:6
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  5. I received most of my education in Canada, finishing at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison medical school, where I have remained throughout my academic career. The research in our laboratory centered on ...

    Authors: Jerome A Dempsey
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2014 3:13
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  6. Military Ergonomics is a name I made up when the Commander at the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) told me 'The Surgeon General wants to give you a Research Division of your own.’ I ...

    Authors: Ralph F Goldman
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2013 2:35
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  7. This perspective focuses on key career decisions, explaining the basis of those decisions. In so doing, it exemplifies the unexpected influences of serendipity and the interaction between serendipity and plann...

    Authors: Peter D Wagner
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2013 2:31
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  8. After training in physics during World War II, I spent 2 years designing radar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then switched to biophysics. After medical school and a residency, I was doctor draft...

    Authors: John W Severinghaus
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2013 2:29
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  9. This article is an autobiographical account of my career as a human physiologist. I have spent 55 years traversing mountains, continents, seas, and skies, carrying out research in the laboratories of several i...

    Authors: Paolo Cerretelli
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2013 2:13
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  10. I have been fortunate to work in two areas of extreme physiology and medicine: very high altitude and the microgravity of spaceflight. My introduction to high altitude medicine was as a member of Sir Edmund Hi...

    Authors: John B West
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2012 1:11
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  11. This invited autobiography reviews the career of Michael N. Sawka. Influences: Dr. Sawka soon will retire after a 40-year research career and was influenced by great professors, mentors and colleagues. Career Pat...

    Authors: Michael N Sawka
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2012 1:10
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  12. This paper is an overview of my career as a hospital physician with special interest in respiratory diseases. Alongside this career, I have been fortunate to be able to pursue my professional hobby of high alt...

    Authors: James Sibree Milledge
    Citation: Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2012 1:9
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