Ever Upward: March 2020

AsMA Makes Recommendations for New Members EMKs to FAA AsMA welcomes 33 new members in March. In June 2019, the Aerospace Medical Association’s (AsMA’s) • Assam, Jed; Galveston, TX, Air Transport Medicine Committee released a Guidance • Boyer, Aaron; Peoria, IL, United States Document that included a recommendation that the Federal • Chenuel, Bruno; Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Aviation Administration (FAA) make some changes to the • Cox, Kira; Enid, OK, United States emergency medical kits (EMKs) carried on commercial air - • Culpepper, John; Chester, SC, United States planes. is work was requested by Dr. Michael Berry, the • Dangoisse, Carol; Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales, Federal Air Surgeon, in December 2018. e committee put United Kingdom together a task force consisting of Elizabeth Wilkinson (com - • Desai, Parth; Little Rock, AR, United States mittee Chair), Paulo Alves (lead), David Powell, Simon May, • D’Oyly, Timothy; Stockbridge, Hampshire, United Rui Pombal, Alex Garbino, Alex Wolbrink, Justin Flatt, Jim Kingdom Chung, Vincent Feuillie, and Tom Bettes. One of the changes • Dudley, Mark; APO, United States proposed was to add epinephrine auto-injectors to the kits. • Ferguson, Sherri; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada In February 2020, aer the FAA shared AsMA’s recom - • Ganguly, Shilpi; Miami, FL, United States mendations in an Information for Operators, Senators • Goel, Parul; New Delhi, Tammy Duckworth and Charles Schumer, along with • Gohdes, Jacob; Omaha, NE, United States Representative Ro Khanna, sent a letter to Steve Dickson, • Gutierrez, Jacqueline; San Antonio, TX, United States FAA Administrator, urging the FAA to require airlines to • Hastings, Lucas; Lewisville, TX, United States add epinephrine auto-injectors to airplane EMKs. is was • Holko, Holly; Oakwood, OH, United States based on AsMA’s recommendations, which chose auto-injec - • Kiely, Brendon; Arlington, VA, United States tors because they reduce the chances of misuse or overdose. • Lambert, Travis; Lake Charles, LA, United States e Senators and Representative felt that, given that peanuts • Leisinger, Stefan; Freiburg, Germany and food containing peanuts are available onboard airplanes, • Malone, Debra; Catonsville, MD, United States it is important to have auto-injectors available. ere is an ar - • O’Keevan, Tammy; Louisville, CO, United States ticle published in February by RiverBender.com discussing • Panicker, Geo; Vieux Fort, the letter. Please visit https://www.riverbender.com/articles/ • Schmidt, Juliane; Heidelberg, Germany details/duckworth-to-faa-require-lifesaving-epinephrine- • Sharma, Bharat; Tonk, India autoinjectors-be-carried-on-every-flight-39701.cfm to read • Sheridan, Nicholas; Omaha, NE, United States the article. • Shields, Daniel; Lexington, KY, United States • Subhani, Aisha; Davie, FL, United States • aker, Aakar; Suwanee, GA, United States AsMA Offers Two New Services • Todd, Isabella; Sydney, New South Wales, e Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) is now offer - • Valencia, William; Galveston, TX, United States ing two new services to its members. Members can now • Vanderlinden, Wim; Leuven, save their credit card information in the Impexium vault • Wilson, Stephanie; Riverdale, GA, United States and use the stored card for all future purchases. Along with • Zeiger, Andrew; Philadelphia, PA, United States this is autopay, allowing members to set up their member - ship renewals for automatic renewal payment using the In Memoriam: Inesa Kozlovskaya stored credit card in the vault. Autopay ensures their Inesa B. Kozlovskaya, a Russian physiologist, researcher at AsMA membership will always be paid on time with no the Institute of Biomedical Problems, and a key figure in break in membership. Members can log in via the AsMA spaceflight physiology and sensorimotor function research, home page at www.asma.org to check out these new ser - died in mid-February. She was involved in research for the vices. International Space Station for the first 20 years and was a critical part of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir science program. She was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of CAMA Sunday Sciences and an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Sunday, May 17, 2020, from 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM. She was also a member of the International Academy of The Program includes presentations on Extreme Astronautics. Medicine from Cheryl Lowry, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Kozlovskaya served for the past 34 years as the Head of the Pinkston, M.D., M.P.H. (8:30 AM–10:30 AM) and a Department of Sensorimotor Physiology and Countermea- presentation from Douglas J. Ivan, M.D., on Macular sures at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Bio- Degeneration, Color Vision, and Pilot Presbyopia medical Problems. During her years of life sciences research, Correction (10:45 AM–12:45 PM). See ‘Kozlovskaya,’ p. N11

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N10 AsMA Newsletter • March 2020 From ‘Kozlovskaya,’ p. N10 Read Current News Online! she always found time to provide advice, guidance, and op - The AsMA, Member, & Industry News are updated as we portunities to colleagues both old and new and was consid - get news. Visit AsMA’s website to see what’s new! ered a mentor, friend, colleague, and critic to all her students, Members: check the Job Fair each month for new posi - co-workers, peers, and bosses. She had over 300 publications tions. You can also send in news about yourself or col - to her name. To read her NASA obituary, please visit leagues to the Journal for inclusion in this newsletter. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/inesa-kozlovskaya .

NEWS OF CORPORATE MEMBERS

KBR Intern Wins NASA Space Apps Challenge and see the answers and resources that AOPA’s experts pro - vided. Users can connect directly with AOPA and with other Cory Haralson, KBR’s Government Solutions U.S. Engineer- pilots, and get answers to any aviation-related question. ing Business Unit intern on the Modeling and Simulation —Please visit https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all- Tools and Soware Project, is a member of team StarStruck, news/2020/february/12/new-online-pilot-information-center- the global winner of the 2019 NASA International Space launches to read more about this. Apps Challenge. NASA selected the team as a local grand prize winner out of more than 29,000 participating coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, and tech - NIOSH Announces Hearing Loss nologists. e NASA-led initiative hosts more than 230 Prevention Award Winner events in 80 countries using their free and open data to ad - e National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health dress real-world problems. In October, the StarStruck team (NIOSH), in partnership with the National Hearing competed in NASA’s local Build-A-Planet challenge, a 48- Conservation Association (NHCA) and the Council for hour global hackathon. e 2019 challenge tasked students to Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation create a game allowing players to customize the characteris - (CAOHC), have the honor of announcing the winner of the tics of a star and design planets that could reasonably exist 2020 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention within that star system. It also needed to serve as an educa - Award™. is year’s award for innovation in hearing loss pre - tional experience. In response to the contest, the StarStruck vention goes to the Multilateral Medical Operations Panel team—four college friends studying computer science with (MMOP) Acoustics Sub-Working Group for the backgrounds in art, game development, and astrophysics— International Space Station (ISS). e award was presented at developed a solar system simulation video game called “Plan- the Annual National Hearing Conservation (NHCA) It.” Plan-It is a planet generator allowing players to create a Conference in late February in Destin, FL. e Acoustics new solar system. Informative pop-ups explain to players Sub-Working Group wins the innovation award for identify - how their choices change the planets’ properties, helping to ing the unique risk facing ISS crewmembers and developing educate users on various astrophysical concepts. Aer win - solutions for reducing noise exposure. ey work with the ning locally, StarStruck then went on to compete at the inter - crew stationed on the ISS to monitor noise levels, identify national level and was selected as a global winner in the noisy tasks or equipment for their Noise Hazard Inventory, “Most Inspirational” category. StarStruck is the only U.S.- test equipment for noise levels before it is sent up to the ISS, based team to be selected as a global winner and will now develop and implement solutions to reduce noise levels, rec - have the opportunity to travel to a NASA site in the Eastern ommend hearing protection devices to reduce crew noise ex - U.S. to present their project to NASA and the Space Apps posures, and perform audiometric testing before, during (on- Global Organizing Team. orbit), and aer flights. No permanent mission-related —Please visit https://www.kbr.com/en/insights-events/stories/ hearing changes among American crewmembers have been kbr-intern-helps-build-plan-it-solar-system-video-game-wins- reported in the almost 20 years of ISS operation. is success nasas-2019 for more on this. is the result of the efforts of the acoustical engineers, audiolo - gists, industrial hygienists, and physicians who comprise the AOPA Launches Pilot Information Center Acoustics Sub-Working Group’s membership from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Russian e Aircra Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) recently Space Agency, the European Space Agency, the Japanese transitioned from AOPA Hanger to the Pilot Information Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Canadian Space Center. is new site keeps everything from the AOPA Agency. Hangar—dashboard, members area, groups, events, and mar - —Please see https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/updates/upd-2-18- ketplace—and it enhances the discussion area. AOPA Hangar 20.html to read more about this. users can use their existing login. Members who haven’t used See ‘Corporate News,’ p. N12 the platform can log in to the Pilot Information Center with their AOPA.org username and password. e question-and- Want to see your company’s news here? answer discussion area is similar to Quora (a popular online Corporate & Sustaining Members get meeting and ex - platform for people to ask questions and share insights and hibitor discounts. If your company is not a member, be - knowledge) and will allow you to submit your own questions come a one! Visit www.asma.org/for-corporations . or browse popular categories of questions from other pilots

AsMA Newsletter • March 2020 N11 From ‘Corporate News,’ p. N11 Corporate News Bites Mayo Clinic Marks 20,000th Transplant A Mayo Clinic transplant team recently performed the UTMB: Two UTMB doctors received the ayer Award 20,000th transplant at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. is major from the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian milestone comes as researchers study the potential for regen - Medicine. is award is given to a resident or fellow who erative medicine approaches to dramatically transform how demonstrates sound scientific knowledge, compassion to - transplants are performed in the future. Regenerative wards patients and dedication to teaching and learning. medicine aims to shi the focus from treating disease to tap - Please visit https://www.utmb.edu/internalmedicine/news- ping the body’s ability to heal diseased cells, tissues and or - events/news-article/2020/02/13/congratulations-dr.-josie- gans. Since 1963, Mayo Clinic’s transplant programs have ex - rossitto-(pgy-3)-and-dr.-ahmed-chatila-(pgy3) for more on panded from kidney and bone marrow to face, hand, heart, this and to see the photo. liver, lung, pancreas and pediatric transplant programs. is ALPA: e Air Line Pilots Association, International’s year also marks the 20th anniversary of Mayo Clinic’s (ALPA’s), Jazz Master Executive Council recently re - William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical elected Capt. Claude Buraglia, a 24-year veteran pilot at Regeneration in Rochester. Researchers are also studying how Jazz Aviation and current CRJ-200/-900 captain, for a his - to use the latest technology and recent medical discoveries to toric sixth consecutive term as chairman. Captains Terry transform how transplants will be performed in the future. McTeer and Tyler Rowe, who both currently serve as offi - —See https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo- cers on the MEC, also retained leadership positions. Please clinic-marks-20000th-transplant-performed-in-minnesota/ to see http://www.alpa.org/news-and-events/news-room/2020- read more about this. 02-05-jazz-mec-re-elects-capt-claude-buraglia-chairman to read more on this. SAA Flies Home AFBA: e Armed Forces Benefit Association (AFBA) Board of Directors has named General Larry O. Spencer, South African Airways (SAA) was honored to bring Miss USAF (Ret.) as its new President (effective March 2020) Universe 2019, Zozibini Tunzi, back home aboard its brand and member of the Board (effective February 2020). Also, new Airbus A350-900 from New York on Saturday. Her AFBA’s affiliate 5Star Life Insurance Company (5Star Life) sparkling presence aboard SA204 added excitement on 15- Board of Directors has appointed General Spencer as a hour journey between New York and OR Tambo Interna- member of its board (effective February 2020). Current tional Airport in Johannesburg as customers interacted and AFBA Chair and President General Ralph E. “Ed” took pictures with her. Miss Tunzi, who hails from Tsolo in Eberhart, USAF (Ret.), will remain the chair of the associ - the Eastern Cape, flew SAA to Sao Paolo in December to par - ation and of 5Star Life. Visit http://newsroom.aa.com/ ticipate in the Miss Universe contest as arranged by the Miss press-releases/aa-names-general-larry-o-spencer-usaf-ret- SA Pageant organizers. She was crowned new-president/ for more on this. aer previously being crowned Miss 2019. She is Environics: Environic’s Reduced Oxygen Breathing the third woman from South Africa to win Miss Universe Device (ROBD) was featured in an article from Robins Air and the first black woman since Leila Lopes was crowned Force Base on training flight crew about hypoxia. e arti - . SAA will fly the homegrown beauty cle can be found at https://www.robins.af.mil/News/Article- queen back to New York where she will live during her reign Display/Article/2068211/combatting-hypoxia-robins-flight- as Miss Universe. On her return trip, she will again travel on prepares-aircrews-to-recognize-signs/ . the state-of-the-art aircra, of which SAA has four in its fleet. IFALPA: e International Federation of Air Line —Please visit https://www.flysaa.com/about-us/leading- Pilots Association (IFALPA) announced that the Montreal carrier/media-center/media-releases/newsroom for more. Protocol 2014 has gone into effect as of January of this year. ey believe this will help ensure a stronger deter - MEETINGS CALENDAR rent, welcomes its entry into force as an important step in the strategy against unruly behavior onboard aircra, and March 5-7, 2020 ; 5th Annual Aviation Safety fully supports Resolution A40-28 of the 40 th ICAO Seminar; Singapore. Jointly organized by the Flight Safety Assembly, which urges all States to ratify this Air Law Foundation and Singapore Aviation Academy. For more Treaty. Please see https://www.ifalpa.org/news/20prl02- info, please visit https://flightsafety.org/summit-seminar/ entry-into-force-of-the-montreal-protocol-2014/ for more. 5th-annual-singapore-aviation-safety-seminar/ . MedAire: MedAire has released advice for aviation op - March 26-29, 2020 ; FPA Dixie - Great Lakes Chapters erators amid the coronavirus outbreak. ey recommend 2020 Spring meeting; Space and Rocket Center, that carriers defer non-essential flights to mainland Huntsville, AL. For more information or to register, visit and suspend all flights to Hubei province and Wenzhou. https://www.fpadrs.org/event-3387420 . ey also recommend that operators pay attention to any April 7-9, 2020 ; FAA Colloqium: Arvind Chaturvedi changes in travel restrictions from the Chinese or other Colloquium on Postmortem Forensic Toxicology in governments and be prepared for further constraints. Aviation; FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Please visit https://www.businessairnews.com/viewer/312/ City, OK, USA. For more info, please visit html5/index.html?pn=5 to read more on this. https://cami-colloquium.eventbrite.com/ .

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