Our Team

UC Space Health Team and Collaborators

Aenor Sawyer, MD

Director, UC Space Health, Associate Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery

UCSF

Millie Hughes-Fulford PhD (in memoriam)

UCSF Professor, NASA Payload Specialist

UCSF

Stephen Robinson, PhD

Director, Center for Spaceflight Research

UC Davis

James Rohde

Undergraduate, UC Space Health Intern

UC Berkeley

Elana Meer, MD, MBA

PGY-3, UC Space Health Fellow

UCSF

Alice Tang, PhD

MS3, UC Space Health Fellow

UCSF

Thomas Lang, PhD

Professor, Dept Radiology/BioMedical Imaging

UCSF

Tammy Chang, MD, PhD

Professor, Dept of Surgery

UCSF

Sonja Schrepfer, MD

Professor, Dept of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Director TSI Lab

Cedars-Sinai

Adam Arkin

Professor, Bioengineering

UC Berkeley

Grace O'Connell

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

UC Berkeley

Tim Fisher

Department Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

UCLA

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Professor, Laboratory Medicine

UCSF

Sylvain Costes, PhD

Branch Chief of Space Biosciences Research Branch

NASA Ames

Sergio Baranzini, PhD

Professor, Dept of Neurology

NASA Ames

Mary Bouxsein, PhD

Professor, Dept of Orthopedic Surgery

Harvard

Sigurd Berven, MD

Professor, Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery

Harvard

Jeannie F. Bailey, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept of Orthopedic

UCSF

Tamara Alliston, PhD

Professor, Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery

UCSF

Jeff Ayton, MBBS

Chief Medical Officer Australian Antarctic Division

Australian Antarctic Division

John Cherry, MD

Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Australian Antarctic Division

Seward Rutkove, MD

Professor, Dept of Neurology

Harvard

Hayden Taylor, PhD

Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering

UC Berkeley

UC Space Health Advisors/Consultants

Jennifer Fogarty, PhD

Director of Applied Health and Performance

Sophic Synergistics, LLC

Eric Antonsen, MD, PhD, MS, FAAEM, FACEP

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

Yvonne Cagle, MD

NASA Astronaut

NASA

Josef Schmid, PhD

NASA Flight Surgeon

NASA Johnson Space Center

Kate Rubins, PhD

NASA Astronaut

NASA

Serena Auñón-Chancellor, MD

NASA Astronaut

NASA

Marc Shepanek, PhD

OCHMO lead for Extreme Environments and Analogs

NASA

James D. Polk, DO, MS, MMM, CPE, FACOEP, FAsMA

NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer

NASA

Michael Barrett, MD

NASA Astronaut

NASA

Liz Warren, PhD

Chief Scientist NASA’s Human Health and Performance Contract

KBR

Michael Snyder, PhD

Department Chair, Genetics

Stanford

Steven Steinhubl, MD

Associate Professor

Scripps Institute

Health Sense Matrix Team

Aenor Sawyer, MD

Director, UC Space Health

Associate Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery

UCSF

Pamela Hudson, RN

Program Manager

UCSF

Caressa Chen, BS, MD

UC Space Health Fellow,

General Surgery Resident, Surgical Innovation Fellow

Loyola University / UCSF

Isabella Dohil

Global Health Science Student

UCSF/UCLA

Divya Ganesan

Global Health Science Student

UCSF/Case Western

Sharat Israni

Executive Director, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

UCSF

Katy Jarvis, PhD

Applied Mathematician & Computer Engineer

NASA Ames

Bhushan Kharbikar, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering

UCSF

Erik Kwok

Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

UCSF

Dima Lituiev

Sr. Machine Learning Scientist, Bakar Computational Health Science Institute

UCSF

Elana Meer, MD, MBA

Dept of Opthalmology

Univ of Pennsylvania

Sachin Rangaranjan, MS

Biomedical Engineer, Surgical Innovation

UCSF

Gundolf Schenk

Principal Data Scientist, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

UCSF

Ida Sim, PhD, MD

Professor In Residence, Department of Medicine

UCSF

YongMei Shi

Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

UCSF

Marina Sirota, PhD

Computational Scientist, Associate Professor, Bakar Computational Health Science Institute

UCSF

Joanne Spetz, PhD

Professor In Res and Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies

UCSF

Alice Tang, MD/PhD Student

UCSF

Bradley Wait, MTM, MSEE, MSBio

UCSF/Stanford