Warren Zapol

Warren is Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has done extensive research on the diving reflex and has studied champion divers of the animal kingdom, the Weddell seals of Antarctica. In 2003 Warren was a co-recipient of the National Inventor of the Year Award for a method and device for safely delivering nitric oxide to the lungs of patients in the form of an inhaled gas. The treatment has been FDA-approved for the treatment of hypoxic respiratory failure in infants, which affects approximately 30,000 newborn babies each year. Warren was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001, and he served on the Polar Board of the National Academies of Science from 2003-2006, advising the U.S. government on Polar Science. Warren is now a member of the Committee on Aerospace Medicine and the Medicine of Extreme Environments of the NAS, advising NASA on medical plans for the lunar base and the Mars mission.
 

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