IPPA HIGH ALTITUDE PATHOLOGY INSTITUTE La Paz, Bolivia (3510 m) Medical Education courses and training in high altitude medicine and physiology. At IPPA we have given several courses on: High Altitude Pathology, blood gases at high altitude and We have co-organized the: First World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology (Sep 12-14th, 1994), with the participation of the International Society for Mountain Medicine and the Wilderness Medical Society, here in la Paz. This meeting was so sucessful that the Second was in Cuzco Peru in 1996, the Third in Matsumoto 1998, Japan, the Fourth in Arica, Chile 2000, the Fifth in Barcelona, Spain 2002 and the Sixth in Xining and Tibet, China 2004 and so on. Symposium on The Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude 1-8 Oct, 2005 with the participation of Zubieta University, UNESCO and the Third World Academy of Sciences, II Symposium on The Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude 2-9 Aug, 2008 with the participation of Zubieta University and UNESCO. III Symposium on The Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude 16-23 Oct, 2010 with the participation of Zubieta University, Ministerio de Educacion Bolivia. FUTURE COURSES AND TRAINING: Please click below. .   Training in high altitude pathology for physicians and medical students at IPPA   One week long High Altitude Medicine course given yearly You can contact us at e-mail  Back to IPPA home page Copyright Jan/24/96 IPPA - La Paz, Bolivia