Do Travelers to High Altitude Need to Worry about their Blood Pressure?

Linda Keyes is a board-certified emergency physician, a Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado, Vice-President of the International Society of Mountain Medicine, and Past-President of the Wilderness Medical Society.  Since she was a medical student at Yale University, she has travelled the globe in pursuit of science. Dr Keyes has partnered with researchers and clinicians on five continents to understand the effects of high altitude on the human body. She has authored of scores of original research articles and international guidelines on high-altitude medicine with a focus on women’s health at high altitude and understanding acute mountain sickness. The mountains are her happy place. She believes in wilderness as medicine and in conservation for the health of the planet.