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Date, Time & Location:

Thursday, 10/12/2017   12:00 - 2:00 p.m.   DeBakey Classroom  M321



Speaker from 12:00 - 1:00 p:


Michael R. Barratt, M.D.
Physician Astronaut
NASA Johnson Space Center


Lecture  Title:

"The Human in Space: Adaptation to Weightlessness"

Learning Objectives:





Speaker from 1:00 - 2:00 p:







Lecture Title:


Learning Objectives:



*        Know the basic physiological systems that alter in response to weightlessness and how they adapt over time

*        Know the main sources of peer reviewed information available for space medicine


Erik Antonsen, M.D., Ph.D.
Element Scientist, Exploration Medical Capability
Human Research Program, NASA Johnson Space Center
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine and Space Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine


"Exploration Medical Capabilities in Human Spaceflight"



*        Understand an overview of NASA's current and future missions
*        Describe three key challenges to providing medical care on interplanetary missions
*        Understand how a Medical Systems Engineering approach helps enable crew autonomy in spaceflight


We encourage BCM students, faculty and staff to attend the CSM elective lecture series "Topics in Human Space Exploration and Medicine."   Please contact me if you need additional information about this presentation.

Thank you,

Nancy Gibbins
Center for Space Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
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