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Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the set-up of the International Health Care System and how it serves astronauts from all countries and is based on NASA and Russia’s health and medical systems.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the way healthcare is provided to crew after their mission. After the Columbia accident, NASA investigated monitoring the healthcare for astronauts and their families for the rest of their lives to help the crew member with any problems and to gain better understanding of […]
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the relationship between the air crew and flight surgeons and how the flight doctors exercise every option to allow the astronauts to fly.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, talks about the medical quality assurance policy and a watch dog system that the agency has operated under for the past two decades. Dr. Williams also talks about how the health and medical system is integrated into programs and engineering as much as possible.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, talks about the ethical framework for the acceptance of risk from the health and medical perspective and the increased risk from missions to beyond low-earth orbit.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the potential for in situ resource utilization and manufacturing such as 3-D printing to replenish medical supplies during a mission. Probabilistic risk assessment is being applied to help configure medical systems for inter-planetary missions.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, discusses the difficulty health and medical requirements pose for space vehicle designers.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, discusses some of the symptoms that were observed from astronaut Scott Kelly’s one year of living in space and how they might influence future long duration human spaceflight missions.
