December 7-12
2024

December 7-12, 2024

Maui, Hawaii

Wailea Beach Marriott

Wailea Beach Marriott
Maui, Hawaii

It is an exciting time in the space industry, where rapid progress is being made in the exploration and utilization of extraterrestrial environments. This broader and increased access demands that we serve human spaceflight with greater collaboration, communication, and coordination across disciplines that enable innovation. The Organization for Space Medicine, Engineering, and Design (OSMED), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, seeks to foster cross-disciplinary connections among fields, specifically— engineering, design, and medicine to enhance space initiatives safely and sustainably. 

OSMED's inaugural conference in Maui, HI from December 7-12, 2024, is designed to connect together experts from these distinct fields to address challenges faced by the spaceflight industry. With well-known keynote speakers and two dedicated tracks of longitudinal workshops, participants have the opportunity for deep and meaningful interdisciplinary discussions on common challenges in human spaceflight. Conference attendance is invitation only, creating a smaller, more interactive atmosphere for knowledge exchange and networking.    

Co-located with the longstanding Emergencies in Medicine Conference, OSMED's event provides a unique opportunity for professionals to engage in collaborative discussions and activities that span their respective specialties. We invite professionals to join us in Maui as we work to bridge these disciplinary divides and advance the frontiers of human space exploration.

Faculty

  • Jacob Bleacher

    Jacob Bleacher

    NASA Chief Exploration Scientist

    BIO
  • Alonso H. Vera

    Alonso H. Vera

    NASA Senior Scientist (ST) for Distributed Collaborative Systems

    BIO
  • Elizabeth Reynolds

    Elizabeth Reynolds

    Managing Director, Starburst US

    BIO
  • Jennifer Rochlis

    Jennifer Rochlis

    Co-founder, President, and CEO of Advancing Frontiers

    BIO
  • John Keefe

    John Keefe

    Director of Cross Agency Strategy Integration at NASA

    BIO
  • Brian Russell

    Brian Russell

    Biomedical Engineer at Aukland Bioeng. Institute and Ambient Cognition

    BIO
  • Chanel Fischetti

    Chanel Fischetti

    Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of SPEAR MED, Harvard Medical School

    BIO
  • Ariana Nelson

    Ariana Nelson

    Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UC Irvine

    BIO
  • Phnam Bagley

    Phnam Bagley

    Space Architect, MedTech Industrial Designer, Partner and Creative Director at Nonfiction

    BIO
  • Erik Antonsen

    Erik Antonsen

    Emergency Physician and Aerospace Engineer

    BIO
  • Danica Vallone

    Danica Vallone

    Founder and CEO of Red Hen Industries

    BIO
  • Mark Shelhamer, Sc.D.

    Mark Shelhamer

    Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

    The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

    BIO
  • N. Stuart Harris

    N. Stuart Harris

    Founding Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital SPEAR (SPace, Ecological, Arctic, and Resource-limited) Med Division

    BIO
  • Nicolas Heft, M.D.

    Nicolas Heft

    Section Director, Space Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

    BIO
  • Lonnie G Petersen

    Lonnie G Petersen

    Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    BIO
  • Carlo Canepa

    Carlo Canepa

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Space Medicine Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine

    BIO
  • Michael Pohlen

    Michael Pohlen

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging Division, Dept of Radiology, UC San Diego

    BIO
  • Alaina  Brinley Rajagopal

    Alaina Brinley Rajagopal

    Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Esperto Medical, Inc.

    BIO
  • Jennifer Fogarty

    Jennifer Fogarty

    Director of the Applied Health and Performance Division for Sophic Synergistics, LLC

    BIO
  • Jim Reilly

    Jim Reilly

    Former Astronaut and Former Director of the US Geological Survey

    BIO
  • Shawna Pandya

    Shawna Pandya

    Physician, and Commercial Research Astronaut with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)

    BIO
  • Maybritt Kuypers

    Maybritt Kuypers

    Flight Surgeon, ESA

    BIO
  • William S. Queale

    William S. Queale

    Founder, Negentex Systems Medicine

    Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    BIO
  • Robert J. Reynolds

    Robert J. Reynolds

    Spaceflight Epidemiologist and Data Scientist

    BIO
  • Dana Levin

    Dana Levin

    Medical Director and Chief Flight Surgeon, Vast Space

    BIO
  • Kate Nelson

    Kate Nelson

    SPACE-H Program Director, Starburst

    BIO
  • Grant Anderson

    Grant Anderson

    President and CEO, Co-Founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation

    BIO
  • Carole Dangoisse

    Consultant in Critical Care King's College Hospital

    BIO
  • Cody Wayne Burkhart

    Cody Wayne Burkhart

    Flight Project Manager for the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) and the Knowledge Reaper Asset in a Kinetic Network (KRAKN) aboard the ISS, Chief of the HumanWorks Lab

    BIO
  • Emily Apollonio

    Emily Apollonio

    Analog Astronaut and Human Factors Consultant, Founder and CEO at Interstellar Performance Labs

    BIO
  • Michael Canga

    Michael Canga

    Former Manager, Program Science Management Office, Human Research Program at NASA, Johnson Space Center

    BIO
  • Luke Apisa

    Luke Apisa

    Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Fellowship Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine

    BIO
  • Kaleigh A. Stabenau

    Kaleigh A. Stabenau

    Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California-Irvine

    BIO

Agenda

BLUE TRACK Low Earth Orbit: Accessibility, Sustainability, and Commercial Opportunities
GREEN TRACK Multi-System Resilience: Methodically Approaching the Unknowns
SOCIALS Registration and Receptions


TIME Saturday
Dec 7
Sunday
Dec 8
Monday
Dec 9
Tuesday
Dec 10
Wednesday
Dec 11
Thursday
Dec 12
08:00 AM Welcome Address Panelist liaison Lecture
from each track
Keynote Lecture:
Casey Swails
08:30 AM Off World, Off Record:
Operational Reflections of an Astronaut
Jim Reilly
Moon to Mars:
Jacob Bleacher
09:00 AM Break into groups Blue track presentation
09:30 AM Panelist lecture
from each track
Ultrasound integration
10:00 AM Track group work Q&A debrief findings
10:30 AM SPOCUS
(Space Point of Care
Ultrasound)
Green track presentation
11:00 AM Panelist lecture
from each track
11:30 AM Track group work Q&A debrief findings
12:00 PM Lunch Lunch
12:30 PM Debrief Conference
01:00 PM Panelist lecture
from each track
Panelist lecture
from each track
01:30 PM Track group work Lunch Track group work Decide Tracks for Vote for 2025
02:00 PM Closing Reception at Morimoto
02:30 PM
03:00 PM Panelist lecture
from each track
Space-H Showcase:
Meet the founders of tomorrow's Space Health Industry
Panelist lecture
from each track
03:30 PM Track group work Track group work
04:00 PM Registration
and oceanview mingling
at Kapa (Hotel Restaurant)
04:30 PM Panelist lecture
from each track
Panelist lecture
from each track
05:00 PM Presentation Prep Presentation Practice
05:30 PM
06:00 PM
06:30 PM
07:00 PM
07:15 PM Welcome Reception (registered attendees only)
08:00 PM
08:30 PM Luau at Luau Gardens
09:00 PM
09:30 PM

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Blue Track: Low Earth Orbit: Accessibility, Sustainability and Commercial Opportunities

This track will emphasize the critical need for healthcare professionals, scientists, engineers, and designers, to provide practical insights to other disciplines and work collaboratively rather than in isolation. Expect to delve into how LEO can be a source of discovery, leveraged for commercial opportunities, and how lessons learned can be applied to future space missions contributing to progressive Earth independence.

Key themes include:

  • Medical Advancements: Innovations in telemedicine, space-based healthcare, and physiological monitoring systems that enable risk reduction through precision screening and medical care in the LEO environment. Discussions seek to define the spectrum of health to performance and what is needed to sustain both. These will initiate conversations with the engineering and design communities. 

  • Engineering Solutions: The development of adaptive technologies and infrastructure designed to overcome the limitations of microgravity and promote long-term self-sufficiency for astronauts and future space travelers. Engineering solutions are necessary for system function, but not always sufficient to ensure system resilience.  

  • Design Integration: Human-centered design must be better integrated into vehicles and habitats of the future to empower astronauts to manage their health, enhance mobility, and sustain performance in isolated and extreme conditions. Design takes into account engineering limitations, behavioral health and performance needs to address function, appearance, and value across many dimensions. 

This longitudinal track explores the many considerations required to take full advantage of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment. Participants will engage with researchers, tech experts, and companies to discuss real-world applications and drive solutions for the physical, cognitive, and psychological challenges of space travel. Emphasis will be placed on a systems-medicine approach, in which interactions between crew members and spacecraft systems are considered holistically – and specifically how crew mental health and physical functionality depends on this integration.

Green Track: Multi-System Resilience: Methodically Approaching the Unknowns

Longer and more ambitious spaceflight missions will encounter situations that cannot yet be predicted. The ability to deal with such unknown-unknowns is enhanced by design that promotes overall mission resilience: the proper functional integration of multiple systems across multiple domains in order to carry out a successful mission. This longitudinal track centers on building resilience across multiple systems—biological, mechanical, and technological—to address the unpredictable challenges of space exploration. Participants will explore how an interdisciplinary approach is essential for maintaining the health and performance of astronauts in unknown and extreme environments and how resilience can be facilitated by vehicle and mission architecture and mission. 

Key themes include:

  • Biological Resilience: Understanding how human biology responds to long-duration space travel, with an emphasis on innovations in countermeasures for muscle atrophy, bone density loss, immune system changes, and psychological stressors such as extreme isolation resulting in erosion of team dynamics.

  • Mechanical and Technological Resilience: Advancements in spacecraft systems, robotics, and autonomous technologies designed to withstand the harsh and variable conditions of space, ensuring reliability, mission continuity, and safety even in the face of unforeseen challenges.

  • Interconnected System Design: How integrated approaches with a focus on human-centered design can create adaptable and robust systems that support human health and performance, from spacesuits to habitats. Ensuring that space vehicles and habitats designed for humanity will cultivate improved team cohesion and permit interoperability for real-time problem solving by spaceflight participants.

This track will highlight the importance of collaboration across disciplines to ensure that systems have the necessary reliability and adaptability to meet the challenges of the most extreme environments. Participants will gain insight into strategies for creating systems that enhance resilience, ensuring mission success despite the uncertainty of space and its ever-changing demands. Lessons learned from space will also be applied to improving multi-system resilience in terrestrial environments, such as in disaster recovery or critical healthcare medical systems.

Special Offerings

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

10:30am - 12:00pm HST

Space Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Space Health Accelerator Startup Showcase

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

3:00pm - 6:30pm HST