Jan Stepanek, M.D.

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Jan Stepanek, M.D.
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Location: Arizona
  • Joint Appointment
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Academic Rank
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
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Clinical Profile
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Summary

Aerospace Medicine:

  • Terrestrial high-altitude exposure and associated illnesses such as acute mountain sickness (AMS), HACE (high altitude cerebral edema), HAPE(high altitude pulmonary edema) and their treatment, prevention and preparticipation evaluation.

  • Physiological effects of hypoxia, decompression, acceleration and risk mitigation measures.

  • Medical concerns arising in corporate aviation and new high altitude capable aircraft.

  • Civilian spaceflight and medical evaluation of prospective participants.

  • Aerospace physiology and novel avenues for training aircrew.

Executive Health:

  • Cardiovascular health and novel risk markers

Recent publications

See a listing of my publications

Education

Residency – Aerospace Medicine, UTMB/NASA
University of Texas Medical Branch

MPH –
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch

Residency – Chief Medical Resident
Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

Residency –
Department of Internal Medicine

Residency – Department of Pathology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

M.D. –
Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Basel


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