The October talk will be given by Prof Mike Tipton who will be talking about his work on cold water immersion on which he is a renowned authority and will be talking about how our bodies respond to adverse environments.
Professor Tipton is Professor of Human & Applied Physiology, Extreme Environments Laboratory, University of Portsmouth, UK. He is a member of the RNLI Council and a Consultant to the Medical Director of the RNLI. He has been a consultant in survival and thermal medicine to the Royal Air Force, UKSport and the English Institute of Sport. Prof Tipton is Chair of the National Water Safety Forum and of Water Safety England, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow, Trustee and President-elect of The Physiological Society. He received his MBE for services to physiological research in extreme environments as well as many other awards.
Prof Tipton has published over 850 scientific books, papers, reports and abstracts on drowning, thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology, and survival in the sea.
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