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Dr. Richard Williams: Occupational Health Approach

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the risks of microgravity, radiation, and isolation and confinement in human spaceflight and how NASA is interested in engineering solutions to these risks.

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Dr. Richard Williams: Promoting Innovation in Health and Medical

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the various groups of health and medical professionals that help to proliferate the medical knowledge that is gained in the human spaceflight program.

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Dr. Richard Williams: Health and Medical Model

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, explains how the health and medical authority model depends on research from the human research program. In a cyclical pattern, health standards drive programmatic requirements, the requirements drive the type of research being done, and the research produces deliverables to health and medical practice for […]

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Dr. Richard Williams: Health and Medical Technical Authority

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, talks about Health and Medical Technical Authority which was instituted at NASA after the Columbia accident and how the concept was started and matured in the U.S. Nuclear Navy. The idea of technical authority is to develop an infrastructure at NASA that is independent from […]

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Dr. Richard Williams: Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, explains how the Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer was created in 2001 and prior to that time point the functions of the job were contained in other line organizations .

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Dr. Richard Williams: Introduction

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes his background as a general surgeon by residency and how he was further trained in aerospace medicine.

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Risk #1363 Unverified Mating/Demating of Flight Connections During Integration & Test

Ron Welch discusses Knowledge Based Risk (KBR) Risk #1363 Unverified Mating/Demating of Flight Connections During Integration & Test Segments: 00m00s Risk Identification 02m46s Risk Mitigation

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Risk #1381 Traveling Ground Straps May Contact Power Sources

Ron Welch discusses Knowledge Based Risk (KBR) Risk #1381 Traveling Ground Straps May Contact Power Sources Segments: 00m00s Risk Identification 03m55s Risk Mitigation

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Risk #1339 High Level of Uncertainty (Environmental Model)

Robert Manning discusses Knowledge Based Risk (KBR) Risk #1339 High Level of Uncertainty (Environmental Model) Segments: 00m00s Risk Identification 06m38s Risk Mitigation

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