Beyond Nominal

Welcome back to Beyond Nominal and to another episode in our RAM Spotlight mini-series! We will be highlighting residents in aerospace medicine across multiple programs to get to know them better. In this episode, we spotlight Dr. Vasilis Mavratsas, a recent graduate of UTMB's Aerospace Medicine residency. Listen to learn more about Dr. Mavratsas’ journey to aerospace medicine, how engineering and...

Welcome back to our October episode! This month, get to know Dr. Jean Sibonga, PhD, the lead of the Bone Discipline at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, while we talk more about bone health in spaceflight. We take a deep dive into how bone health, bone quality, and bone microarchitecture in spaceflight differ from the changes associated with normal terrestrial aging. Dr. Sibonga discusses how astronaut...

On this episode of Beyond Nominal, we sit down with Dr. Ann Tsung, a flight surgeon, for an inside look at her unique journey to NASA. Dr. Tsung takes us through her career path from emergency medicine residency and critical care fellowship to aerospace medicine fellowship and ultimately, her role at NASA where she supports medical operations, the Human Landing System (HLS) program, and clinical S...

Welcome back to another episode! This month, get to know Dr. Tyson Brunstetter, the SANS clinical lead at NASA Johnson Space Center, while we talk more about spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS). Listen to find out more about the signs that constitute SANS, its symptoms (or lack thereof!) and its diagnostic criteria, how it was discovered, hypotheses of its pathogenesis, where we ar...

Welcome to our RAM Spotlight mini-series! We will be highlighting residents in aerospace medicine across multiple programs to get to know them better. In this episode, we spotlight Dr. Andrew Lam, a recent graduate of UTMB's Aerospace Medicine residency (and a second-year RAM at the time of recording). Listen to learn more about Dr. Lam's journey to aerospace medicine, his advice on what intereste...

What is Aerospace Medicine? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kris Belland, a past president of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), naval aviator, flight surgeon, and leader in aerospace medicine, to explore one of medicine's most unique and multidisciplinary specialties. He provides an inside look at aerospace medicine that combines clinical care, research, policy, and operational medic...