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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 .
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.
