Vic Convertino, PhD, is a senior research physiologist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. His professional career has taken him to positions at NASA’s Ames Research Center, the Stanford University School of Medicine, the University of Arizona, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory before assuming his present position. Dr. Convertino holds adjunct professor positions on the faculty of six universities and at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.