Vail Valley Altitude Research Center

Independent Research Review Committee

In Loving Memory of the Founding Father of Emergency Medicine:

Peter Rosen, MD

Senior Lecturer Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School

Visiting Professor Emergency Medicine University of Arizona

Professor Emeritus University of California, San Diego

David K. Wagner, MD - A Pioneer in the Creation of the Specialty of Emergency Medicine 

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University

Senior member and former president, American Board of Emergency Medicine

Former president, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Former chairman, Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine

Former chairman, Emergency Medicine Department, Drexel University College of Medicine

Richard Wolfe, MD

Chief of Emergency Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Rosana Faessler

Sonnenalp Breast Center Founder

Current Research Project

‘Acute mountain illness’ presents inconsistencies with each vital sign component, as shown by the variance in the individual clinical presentations. To test the statistical significance of these inconsistencies, the research center utilizes its altitude chamber that can simulate environments from sea level up to 18,000 feet.