Intl Aviation

Bangalore, Aug 31 (UNI) The 54th International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine will be held here for five days from September ten with the theme 'Aerospace Medicine: The Road Ahead'.

More than 375 delegates, including 125 from other countries, would participate in the conference, to be inaugurated by Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi, according to a release here today.

The scope of the conference encompassed all aspects relating to aviation from aerospace medicine to aeronautics. Scientific sessions would be held on aerospace physiology, clinical aviation medicine, aeromedical education, passenger health, long haul operational issues, modern airplane designs and life support and human factor problems, besides aeromedical aspects of disaster management.

At the conference, to be organised by the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine, two major orations would be organised -- the Andre Allard Oration to be delivered by Manipal Academy of Higher Education former Vice-Chancellor Dr B M Hegde, who would speak on Regular check up and non-linear time evolution in the dynamic human system on September 11, and the Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee Memorial Oration by ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair on the Indian Space Research Programme, the release said.

Last year, the Congress was held in Warsaw in Poland and the next Congress would be held in Vienna in Austria.

UNI VK GD GM1635