Introduction to Space Medicine

Presenter: Dr. Erik Antonsen
Dr. Antonsen is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine with a co-appointment as an Associate Professor of Space Medicine at the Center for Space Medicine, both at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. From May 2018 until March 2021 he was the Assistant Director for Human Systems Risk Management at NASA Johnson Space Center. From February 2015 through May 2018 was the Element Scientist for Exploration Medical Capabilities in NASA’s Human Research Program. He received his BS (1997), MS (2001), and PhD (2004) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and later his MD (2009) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed an Emergency

Medicine Residency in 2013 at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. Clinically he works as an attending Emergency Physician at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, TX. He has worked in a variety of fields as an engineer and doctor including spacecraft electric rocket propulsion, plasma light sources and extreme ultraviolet lithography, HIV/AIDs research in Zambia, and providing emergency medical support for the Red Bull Stratos and StratEx high altitude skydive missions. His current research focuses on risk networks and analytic strategies for informing human system risk management in spaceflight.

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