In honor of Women’s History Month, OSMED is hosting a special panel highlighting women in engineering who are shaping the future of human spaceflight and advanced technology. This conversation will feature Isabella DeLorenzo of Vast Space, Jennifer Rochlis of Advancing Frontiers and former NASA Human Health and Performance Division Chief, Sarah Rogers of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Stephanie Brick, RA, a registered architect and salutogenic and biophilic design subject matter expert whose work focuses on creating environments that improve the health and well being of people working in high stress environments.

Join us to learn about research on the ISS. This special lecture will cover operations and research on the ISS, how to effectively work with engineers to make sure your medical hardware qualifies for spaceflight, and more!

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Join us for an important SXSW conversation on disability access in space and what it will take to create a truly inclusive future beyond Earth. This panel brings together voices committed to accessibility, innovation, and public engagement to examine how inclusive thinking can improve the space sector for everyone. With support from OSMED, the event highlights the role of disability representation, accessible communication, and thoughtful design in shaping the next era of space exploration.

Join us for a dynamic Book Club discussion of Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Dr. Kevin Fong as we explore how breakthroughs born in the Arctic, on battlefields, underwater, and in space reshaped modern medicine and expanded the limits of human survival. Open to members and non-members alike, this conversation will examine how extreme environments drive innovation in trauma care, surgery, critical care, and space medicine, and you are welcome to attend even if you have not finished the book.

OSMED Journal Club celebrates Women's History Month with Dr. Ruth Farrell discussing her article on female astronaut health and the future of women’s health research in space. Join us for a timely conversation on how better study design can improve outcomes for all astronauts and advance human space exploration.

The OSMED Space Ethics and Law Interest Group meets monthly to examine the ethical, legal, and regulatory questions shaping human spaceflight and to connect members with emerging scholarly and operational opportunities in this domain.

The future of human spaceflight is not a solo mission, it is a global tapestry of innovation. This February, OSMED NICE welcomes Phnam Bagley, a visionary space architect and Design Division Chair, to discuss the expanding International Pathways to space medicine.

Join us for a special conversation with Phnam Bagley, OSMED’s first Design Division Chair and a globally recognized space architect. The discussion will focus on the role of the OSMED Design Chair and how design leadership shapes space medicine, engineering, and the future of human-centered exploration.

OSMED faculty will participate in Otolaryngology Updates 2026 at UC Irvine for a special panel titled Houston, We Have Appendicitis: Planning for Procedural Medicine in Exploration Class Spaceflight. This session will examine how surgical and procedural emergencies such as appendicitis can be anticipated, trained for, and managed during long duration space missions where medical evacuation is not possible.

Monthly meeting for our Research Committee! Come join us as we plan our Journal Club, Research Lectures, Seminars and Panel Discussions, and work on development of OSMED Research tools and resources!

As humanity ventures beyond our resource-rich home we must find ways to produce food, oxygen, medicine, and materials in new ways. Vertical Farming offers these capabilities in an automated, scalable, reliable manner. Sam, CEO of OnePointOne, joins us to explore the future of plant production to support the exploration of new habitats and homes.

OSMED Engineering Meeting: This meeting will be focused on understanding needs within the community and figuring out how to make these manageable goas to tackle throughout this year into the future.

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Analog Working Group (AWG) is the team within OSMED working to raise the bar for human spaceflight analogs. We’re building the accreditation roadmap and releasing white papers to guide the field.

"Space Relations in the Current Geopolitical Climate: Canada-Europe-USA," featuring Dr. Shawna Panya, Dr. Erik Antonsen & Dr. Maybritt Kuypers. This will be a frank discussion on the changing nature of existing space partnerships & collaborations, with a panel discussion and Q&A from the audience to follow. This talk will not be recorded, and is open to OSMED members only. Our hope is that this panel paves the way for future NICE panels with additional specific geographic foci going forward.

Join us for the OSMED January Member Highlight featuring Isabella DeLorenzo, Reliability Engineer II at Vast. Isabella will share her journey from engineering physics and systems engineering to flight safety and mission assurance, drawing on her experience across SpaceX’s Starship and Falcon programs and her current work at Vast.

This Journal Club session features Les Johnson leading a discussion on the technical and societal challenges of future interstellar travel, informed by his work in advanced propulsion, space power, human life support systems, and spaceflight demonstrations such as solar sails and tethers, and exploring how these efforts shape long-term mission design and human expansion beyond the solar system.

Why Did NASA Change Their Radiation Limits For Astronauts w/ Dr. Erik Antonsen

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This Journal Club session features space architect Eszter Gulácsi presenting new research on the potential of fungi to reduce deep-space radiation exposure. The discussion will explore experimental findings from the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory and their implications for future space habitat design.

Dr. Martin Elvis is an Astrophysicist at the Ceneter for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has published 500 papers on supermassive black holes that have been cited over 40,000 times. He publishes widely on asteroid and lunar resources, space economy and on emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues of their use.

Have you been approached to peer review for a journal but don’t know if you’re qualified, or how to do so effectively? Then this session is for you!

Join us for the OSMED November Member Highlight featuring Dr. Chanel Fischetti in conversation with Phnam Bagley as they explore emergency and aerospace medical care, point-of-care diagnostics, and the evolving role of ultrasound imaging in low-resource environments. This session will highlight real-world applications across both spaceflight and terrestrial healthcare settings. Open to all who are passionate about advancing human health on and beyond Earth.

Lonnie G Petersen, MD, PhD - OSMED Mentorship Committee Chair

Dr Lonnie Petersen M.D., Ph.D. and Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT.

We are thrilled to host author Rebecca Boyle for our November Book Club meeting. The return of humans to our Moon is a key focus of the space industry, and Boyle's "Our Moon" highlights the anthropological and scientific impact of our Moon throughout history. Feel free to join us for an enlightening discussion even if you have not completed the book.

Unlock the molecular secrets of spaceflight as Dr. JangKeun Kim leads us through the The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and international astronaut biobank, showcasing how multi-omics data from astronaut missions is transforming precision space medicine.

Katie Harris, MD will be sharing her work on vascular ultrasound for deep venous thrombosis in sapceflight. Katie Harris is a diagnostic radiology resident at the University of Toronto, Canada. She completed her MS Space Studies at the International Space University in 2019, before going on to intern at the European Astronaut Centre and join the European Space Agency topical team on venous thromboembolism in space. She continues to work with the Center for Space Medicine Research (Harvard) on Point-of-Care ultrasound and automation in spaceflight.

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