Space Medicine and the Deconditioned Astronaut

Col(s) Kristen Silvia is a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Flight Surgeon and currently Chief of Bioastronautics at Detachment 3, Human Space Flight Support Office, Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. She leads the DoD’s contingency medical operations for NASA and U.S. Space Command in support of U.S. crewed space flight programs. She also directs training of space medicine to all DoD forces for worldwide astronaut rescue/recovery and nominal/contingency landing site support. Prior to her current position, she trained the Air Force’s Pararescueman (PJs) in all aspects of combat trauma and critical care as the Medical Director for the Pararescue & Combat Rescue Officer School.
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