Join us May 14th at 7:00 PM EDT in person at Bear Branch Nature Center, or via the Zoom links below.
Speaker BIO: Mark Shelhamer is a professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, and a doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from MIT. From 2013 to 2016 he was Chief Scientist for the NASA Human Research Program, where he oversaw NASA’s research portfolio for maintaining health and performance in long-duration spaceflight. His research is in the area of sensorimotor function, which includes experiments on ISS astronauts as well as crews of commercial space flights. He also has a research program devoted to the multi-system and cross-disciplinary interactions that contribute to personal and mission resilience in spaceflight.
Topic: Government (NASA) and private (SpaceX, Blue Origin) space agencies are planning to send people to Mars within a decade. The challenges of a Mars mission will make a moon landing look easy. A journey to Mars will take about three years, and will have an impact on every physiological, psychological, and cognitive system in the body. This talk presents the main medical concerns of long-term spaceflight, and discusses the ways that these concerns might be mitigated. This requires taking into account interactions between different medical, science, and engineering domains – an issue that is relevant to medical care and personal resilience on Earth.If you can’t make it, the meeting will be simulcast on Zoom. See the connection instructions below:
Topic: Monthly WASI Meeting
Time: May 14th, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 879 7384 1396
Passcode: 965007
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