Red Blood Cell Storage in Space and Iterative Suborbital Testing with Dr. George Pantalos
Greetings, SSA Members! It was a pleasure to see some of you at AsMA this year. Please consider checking out this upcoming webinar on Wednesday, June 7th from 10am-11am PDT with SSA’s own George Pantalos on advancing medical technology with suborbital rocket-powered vehicles. This webinar is part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, which offers up…
SSA Meeting at AsMA on May 23rd, 2023
Greetings, SSA Members! We want to let you know that the Space Surgery Association will be meeting in person at the 2023 Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) Conference, which will be held from May 21 – 26, 2023 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, LA. The SSA meeting will take place from 5…
Experts’ Lectures on Space Health Playlist
Hello SSA surgeons, scientists, physicians, researchers, engineers, students, and community members! Interested in learning more about Aerospace Medicine while you exercise, clean the house, or commute? Check out the YouTube playlist curated by SSA Executive Committee member Dr. Rowena Christiansen for her MD1 students at the University of Melbourne! We hope you enjoy.
Space Surgery at Johns Hopkins
See Drs. George Pantalos and Dani Carroll at the Johns Hopkins Space Surgery Mini-Symposoium Series October 25, 2022 at 2 p.m. EST!
Space Surgery Lecture Series – Videos Online
Find new recordings of the SSA Lecture Series on our website under ‘About Space Surgery’ page! We will also continue to post our talks here in the future.
New paper published on Hierarchical Task Analysis
Karen Hughes Miller, Erica Sutton, and George Pantalos published a paper in the journal Surgical Innovation with the title ‘Hierarchical Task Analysis Reimagined as a Planning Tool for Surgery During Exploration Space Flight’. Find the abstract and paper HERE.
SSA scrub caps
Space Surgery Association scrub caps can be purchased HERE! Caps are $28 each, with a $3 kickback per cap to SSA.
Review of Space Surgery published
Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia, has published a review paper on the topic of Space Surgery in the journal “Acta Astronautica”. Congratulations! Find the paper HERE. This is a great overview of what matters from a surgical perspective when planning long-term spaceflight.
New paper on the neuromuscular secretome in long-term bed rest with or without artificial gravity
Bergita Ganse and colleagues have studied neuromuscular interaction in a ESA/NASA 60-day bed rest study with human centrifugation. The paper was published in the journal Experimental Cell Research and can be viewed here.
New paper on a multifunctional surgical device for space surgery
Brooke E. Barrow, George M. Pantalos, and Thomas J. Roussel Jr. have published a paper in Acta Astronautica that shows and evaluates a new multifunctional surgical device. Read it here.
New paper on probabilistic risk assessment of prophylactic surgery before spaceflight
THIS new paper by Reyes et al., published in the journal “Surgical Innovation”, does not support the prophylactic removal of appendix and/or gallbladder for spaceflight.
Space Surgery talk at COSPAR
Dr Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia is going to give a talk on space surgery at the 43rd COSPAR scientific assembly in Sydney Jan 31st to 4th Feb 2021 on “Challenges of providing surgical care in Space” followed by Q & A. Find a link to the scientific program HERE.
Video recordings of the Space Surgery Session
The presenter PDFs and video recordings of the Space Surgery Session of the Space Health Symposium are now online. Find them HERE.
We are an affiliate organization of AsMA
The Space Surgery Association is now an affiliate organization of the Aerospace Medical Association, AsMA.
World Space Week Space Health Symposium
The symposium organized by Dr Rowena Christiansen of The University of Melbourne, Australia was a full success.
New book – The Spacefarer’s Handbook
Springer has published a new book for those who can’t wait to get to space – The Spacefarer’s Handbook – Science and Life beyond Earth by Bergita and Urs Ganse is an interesting read written for laypersons and full of facts and anecdotes.
The 2020 Human Research Program Investigators Working Group meeting took place in Galveston
Probably the last real-life conference before the pandemic was the HRP IWG in Galveston. The deadline for the abstracts of the 2021 meeting has just passed and we look forward to seeing the latest results in an online version of the meeting next year.
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