Aerospace Medicine Podcast takes AsMA 2024 This short episode is from the Aerospace Medicine Association’s Annual scientific meeting, taking place in Chicago, Illinois, where our team have been in the last week! Listen for catch-ups with former guests, and an insight into the flagship event of the Aerospace Medicine year. Recommended in this podcas…

A flashback to an old episode which was sitting in our archives from the origins of the podcast in 2020, this is a real inspirational tale from a person at the beginning of their aerospace medicine career. Explore how Ste’von goes from the autopsy lab to taking the opportunities to explore the aerospace medicine career and his journey through to hi…

What does a flight surgeon at NASA do, and what are the paths to become one? Our latest interview with Drs Ronak Shah and Natacha Chough answer exactly that. Dr Shah is the current Aerospace Medicine Director at UTMB and has previously served as the Medical Director at Johnson Space Center. Dr Chough is a current NASA flight surgeon and is also a U…

Join us for a fascinating interview with David Powell, current pilot, doctor and Chief Medical Advisor at the International Air Transport Association. We take a deep dive into his life as a Royal New Zealand Air Force officer, his various aeromedical qualifications and varied experience in commercial aviation medicine including as the Chief Medical…

How does a young physician from Switzerland become a faculty member of the Mayo Clinic in Internal Medicine and Aerospace Medicine, a lead researcher in Galvanic Vestibular stimulation and co-editor of ‘Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine’? Jan Stepanek’s international career takes us along this journey in incredible detail, highlighting opportuniti…

Wing Commander Posselt is a trailblazer in the United Kingdom and international Aerospace Medicine community. As one of the first graduates of the United Kingdom Aviation and Space Medicine training pathways in the UK, she talks us through her experiences of training and how to take advantage of opportunities including a space analogue mission in t…

Welcome once again to the Aerospace Medicine podcast. In today’s episode we bring you a deep dive with Shawna Pandya, a family practice physician, pilot-in-training, skydiver, scuba-diver and a citizen-scientist astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM. With degrees in Neuroscience, Space Studies and Medicine, our interview explores the meandering p…

Join us on the latest episode of the Aerospace Medicine Podcast, where we are in conversation with Ahmed Baraka, a pharmacist by background and a key player in the development of the African Aerospace Medicine Association and the founder of the AMSRO research chapter in Alexandria, Egypt. Ahmed tells us about how space has been an outlet for him af…

Join us in our latest episode of the aerospace medicine podcast, where we interview Dr Jeremy Robertson, a former civilian airline pilot turned doctor who used his diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes to improve care for Type 1 pilots all over Australia. This episode is a light-hearted but deep dive into Jeremy, an insight into the life of Australian Aviat…

Join us in part one of our latest episode of the aerospace medicine podcast, where we interview Dr Jeremy Robertson, a former civilian airline pilot turned doctor who used his diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes to improve care for Type 1 pilots all over Australia. This episode is a light-hearted but deep dive into Jeremy, an insight into the life of Aust…

Welcome back to another episode of the Aerospace Medicine podcast. Today’s focus is a news flash, a quick deep dive into an aerospace medicine topic of interest which has recently caught our eye. Today we look at a recent experiment launched to the International Space Station looking at the potential to grow human tissue in space. We explore how th…

Episode 1 - Terry Martin Join us in our inaugural episode of the Aerospace Medicine podcast, where we are interviewing Dr Terry Martin, a former RAF doctor and helicopter pilot. His extensive career provides a perfect introduction to the breadth of the field, including air crash investigation, aeromedical retrieval and space medicine. His first han…

Welcome to the Aerospace Medicine podcast, hosted by Daniel and Rohan, two doctors working within the UK’s NHS. Our mission is to inform, involve and inspire anybody interested in the field of aerospace and aviation medicine. In our introductory episode we talk about the mission of the Aerospace Medicine Podcast and what to expect from the next few…