Space Medicine Election for 2006-7

SPACE MEDICINE ELECTION FOR 2006-7

The Space Medicine Branch Nominations Committee provides the following ballot of 2006-7 officer candidates to the membership for your consideration. Please e-mail your votes for each position by sending a message listing your votes. We request your votes as soon as possible, but the absolute deadline by email is before 12:00 CT on Friday, May 12, 2006. Votes after this time must be hand delivered to Genie Bopp at the conference hotel desk. Please send your votes to: [email protected]

If you do not have access to E-Mail, then mail your votes to:

Genie Bopp Wyle Laboratories 1290 Hercules Dr., Suite 120 Houston, TX 77058

Please note: Only one vote is accepted for President-Elect, only one for Secretary, but two votes are requested for Member at Large.

President-Elect (choose one):

1. Mark R. Campbell, M.D., FACS

Dr. Mark Campbell is a board certified general surgeon and a Fellow of the American College of Surgery. He currently is in general surgery private practice in Paris, Texas and is an active member of the Texas Surgical Society where he is the webmaster (he constructed and now maintains that organization’s web site). He has been a member of the Space Medicine Branch and The Aerospace Medical Association since 1989. He has authored or co-authored 25 published papers concerning surgical care during space flight and surgical techniques in weightlessness. Eleven of these articles were published in Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine. He also was the author for the surgical section of “Medical Guidelines for Air Travel” published by the Aerospace Medical Association. Dr. Campbell has been a private pilot since 1984 and received his Air Force Flight Surgery wings in 1994. He was a NASA Flight Surgeon from 1994 to1995 and was deployed to Star City, Russia to support the Shuttle-Mir program. He currently is an At Large member on the Executive Committee of the Space Medicine Branch. He has recently constructed and developed the Space Medicine Branch’s web site and is currently the web master for the organization.

2. Alan D. Moore, Ph.D., FACSM

Dr. Alan Moore is a clinical and research exercise physiologist and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Laboratory Lead, employed by Wyle Laboratories, in the Exercise Physiology Laboratory at NASA-JSC. Dr. Moore has been a member of AsMA since 1989, and has served on the AsMA Scientific Program Committee since 1990, reviewing for the Space Medicine Panel. Dr. Moore currently serves as Secretary to the Space Medicine Branch and has previously served as an at-large member on the executive committee. Dr. Moore is a reviewer for Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine and for Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Dr. Moore is responsible for the conduct and interpretation of pre-, during- and post-mission graded exercise tests for astronauts assigned to International Space Station (ISS) missions. He has served as Principal Investigator for two Space Shuttle investigations, has been co-investigator on two other space flight studies, and has directly supported experiments on over 50 Space Shuttle Missions. Dr. Moore has authored or co-authored 9 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 10 NASA Technical Papers, and has made numerous presentations at scientific meetings. Dr. Moore is a licensed private pilot.

Secretary (choose one):

1. John Darwood, M.D. John Darwood, M.D. is an occupational medicine physician at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). He is currently employed by Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHS) and has been at KSC since 1990. Dr. Darwood has been involved in medical support in over fifty launches and landings of the space shuttle including “Triage Doc". He has been a part of the Trans Atlantic Abort Landing Site (TALS) team in Gambia, Africa for six launches. Dr. Darwood is also a senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA. He has a BS (Biology) degree from the University of Toledo and a MD (Medicine) and MS (Aerospace Medicine) degree from Wright State University. Board certifications are Aerospace Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Family Practice. Dr. Darwood has been a member of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) since 1987, Associate Fellow since 1992, and Life Member since 2002. He is a member of the Space Medicine Branch and has been on its Young Investigator Award Committee for over six years. Membership in the Society of NASA Flight Surgeons has been since 1992. Dr. Darwood is a Fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and in the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is a member of the National Management Association (NMA). In the past, he has been a member of the board of directors for the Florida Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and chapter president and chairman of the board for the NMA. Dr. Darwood presented a paper to AsMA, Mass Discrimination Under G Stress, in 1990 and published the paper, Mass Discrimination Under Gz Acceleration, in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, April 1991; 62: 319-24. John is a Private Pilot, SCUBA diver and is on the executive board for the KSC Barracudas SCUBA diving club, and has run in five marathons.

2. Vernon McDonald, Ph.D.

Vernon McDonald attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received an M.S. and Ph.D in Kinesiology, with an emphasis on human learning and performance. He has been with Wyle Laboratories since 1993 and currently holds the position of Space Medicine Group Manager responsible for support services provided to NASA JSC’s Space Medicine Division. Dr. McDonald has received funding from NASA, NIH, and the DoD for research and development of innovative technology supporting human-machine interactions covering activities as diverse as unmanned aerial vehicle ground-stations, advanced space suit functional evaluation, and clinical evaluation of vestibular and balance disorders. During his tenure at Wyle he has participated as PI and/or co-investigator in the Extended Duration Orbiter project, NASA-Mir Phase 1 in-flight and ground based research, and both ground and flight investigations for the ISS. Dr. McDonald’s experience and qualifications span basic and applied research and development, project management, and he has published over 20 refereed articles and book chapters, and presented his work in numerous conferences in the fields of biomechanics, neuroscience, Space life sciences, and human engineering. He currently holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine.

Members at Large (choose two):

1. Alyson Calder, MBChB, BSc Med Sci (Hons) MRCP (UK)

Dr. Alyson Calder graduated from the University of Aberdeen Medical School, Scotland. She currently works in Glasgow, Scotland as a Medical Senior House Officer and will commence anesthesiology training in August 2006. During the summer of 2006 she will take sabbatical leave in order to carry out research into fluid loading strategies and orthostatic responses at the University of Glasgow Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences. This will be the first step in establishing the University of Glasgow’s Space Physiology Laboratory which Dr. Calder will direct. Alyson founded and organizes the annual UK Space Medicine Conference, which is now in its third year, and is co- founder of the UK Space Biomedical Group. Dr. Calder has spent the past 14 years traveling to international space institutes and conferences to gain knowledge of space travel and space medicine. These trips have taken her to the Institute of Biomedical Problems Moscow, Kennedy Space Center, Johnston Space Center, the European Space Agency in The Netherlands, Korea and Japan. Amongst these ventures, she carried out a clinical attachment to the Cardiovascular Laboratory at JSC and participated in the 2001 Space Medicine Rotation at KSC. Dr. Calder has passion for space medicine and the benefits terrestrial medicine can gain from this specialty. She is dedicated to education of the layperson and the health community on this subject. To this end, she is excited to be part of the Space Medicine Branch as Co-Chair of International Activities.

2. Douglas Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc.

Doug Hamilton is a Flight Surgeon for Wyle Life Sciences at NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr. Hamilton completed a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1980 at the University of Alberta, Canada, specializing in digital control systems and laser plasma physics. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1983 at the University of Alberta designing medical laser systems for surgery and photo-chemotherapy. He has been a practicing professional engineer for 25 years and is professionally certified in Canada and Unites States. Dr. Hamilton received his M.D. at the University of Calgary and was the Valedictorian of the Class of 1991. He is board certified and licensed in Internal Medicine in Canada and United States and is an associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hamilton received his USAF flight surgeon wings in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology in 1992 at the University of Calgary. He attended International Space University (ISU) in the faculty of Life Sciences in 1992 in Japan and has taught at ISU (1996-2004) in the areas of Operational Space Medicine, Bone and Muscle Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology and Life Support Systems. He was awarded the “Alumni of the Year” (2000) from the University of Calgary. Dr. Hamilton has designed, built and manufactured numerous devices such as remote solar, wind and thermoelectric corrosion protection systems and explosion proof electrical generators for hazardous environments. He has recently deployed a remote solar powered early warning disaster and disease surveillance system in Africa and is working with a design team in Canada developing software to dynamically manage patient bed allocations and medical resources in large hospitals. In his current position at Wyle, Dr. Hamilton helps develop medical equipment and procedures to support short and long duration space missions. Dr. Hamilton has supported numerous Shuttle missions on console and is presently leading a design team to recertify the electrocardiographic monitoring systems for the International Space Station and Shuttle. Dr Hamilton has several journal publications in the area of Cardiovascular Physiology, Telemedicine and Space Medicine. . 3. Jan Stepanek, M.D.,

Dr. Jan Stepanek is board certified in Internal Medicine and Aerospace Medicine and is an Assistant Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Aerospace Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. He is a member of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and practices in Aerospace Medicine and Executive Health. He has been a member of the Space Medicine Branch since 2003. He is an active member of the Aerospace Medical Association and has authored 20 articles and 2 book chapters concerning decompression sickness and high altitude related disorders. Dr.Stepanek is Senior Aviation Examiner for the FAA and has completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and his Aerospace Medicine residency at UTMB / NASA in Galveston / Houston. Dr. Stepanek has been a flight surgeon in the Swiss Air Force and directed the Swiss Air Force Aeromedical Research laboratory and the altitude chamber training program. Dr.Stepanek's primary areas of interest in space medicine rest with civilian spaceflight activities and aerospace physiology training systems.

4. Write-In Vote for Member-at-Large

If you desire to write in a vote, please send in the name of the person.