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.
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Jacob Bleacher
NASA Chief Exploration Scientist
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Alonso H. Vera
NASA Senior Scientist (ST) for Distributed Collaborative Systems
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Elizabeth Reynolds
Managing Director, Starburst US
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Jennifer Rochlis
Co-founder, President, and CEO of Advancing Frontiers
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John Keefe
Director of Cross Agency Strategy Integration at NASA
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Brian Russell
Biomedical Engineer at Aukland Bioeng. Institute and Ambient Cognition
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Chanel Fischetti
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of SPEAR MED, Harvard Medical School
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Ariana Nelson
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UC Irvine
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Phnam Bagley
Space Architect, MedTech Industrial Designer, Partner and Creative Director at Nonfiction
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Erik Antonsen
Emergency Physician and Aerospace Engineer
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Danica Vallone
Founder and CEO of Red Hen Industries
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Mark Shelhamer
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
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N. Stuart Harris
Founding Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital SPEAR (SPace, Ecological, Arctic, and Resource-limited) Med Division
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Nicolas Heft
Section Director, Space Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Lonnie G Petersen
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Carlo Canepa
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Space Medicine Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine
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Michael Pohlen
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging Division, Dept of Radiology, UC San Diego
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Alaina Brinley Rajagopal
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Esperto Medical, Inc.
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Jennifer Fogarty
Director of the Applied Health and Performance Division for Sophic Synergistics, LLC
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Jim Reilly
Former Astronaut and Former Director of the US Geological Survey
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Shawna Pandya
Physician, and Commercial Research Astronaut with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)
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Maybritt Kuypers
Flight Surgeon, ESA
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William S. Queale
Founder, Negentex Systems Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Robert J. Reynolds
Spaceflight Epidemiologist and Data Scientist
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Dana Levin
Medical Director and Chief Flight Surgeon, Vast Space
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Kate Nelson
SPACE-H Program Director, Starburst
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Grant Anderson
President and CEO, Co-Founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation
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Carole Dangoisse
Consultant in Critical Care King's College Hospital
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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
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Emily Apollonio
Analog Astronaut and Human Factors Consultant, Founder and CEO at Interstellar Performance Labs
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Michael Canga
Former Manager, Program Science Management Office, Human Research Program at NASA, Johnson Space Center
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Luke Apisa
Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Fellowship Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine
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Kaleigh A. Stabenau
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California-Irvine
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 |
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08:00 AM | Welcome Address | Panelist liaison Lecture from each track |
Keynote Lecture: Casey Swails |
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08:30 AM | Off World, Off Record: Operational Reflections of an Astronaut Jim Reilly |
Moon to Mars: Jacob Bleacher |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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03:30 PM | Track group work | Track group work | ||||
04:00 PM | Registration and oceanview mingling at Kapa (Hotel Restaurant) |
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04:30 PM | Panelist lecture from each track |
Panelist lecture from each track |
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05:00 PM | Presentation Prep | Presentation Practice | ||||
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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 |
Our app is separate from the EIM app and provides OSMED-specific features.
For iOS (iPhone/iPad) users (one-time setup): click the button while using the Safari browser (must use Safari), then use the share function and select “add to home screen” to add the app to your home screen.
For Android users (one-time setup): click the button and you will be prompted to install the app, which will add it to your home page.
For Windows/MacOS users: click the button to view the app as a website.
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