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Appendix C: Committee, Panel, and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 421-444

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... experience includes past membership on the Committee on NASA's Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap, the Space Station Panel of the Review of NASA Strategic Roadmaps, the Committee on Technology for Human/Robotic Exploration and Development of Space, and the Committee on Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space.
From page 422...
... He has published more than 190 peerreviewed papers and is a member of the editorial board of seven journals, including Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Clinical and Translational Science. He serves on numerous advisory boards and is a member of the American Heart Association Peer Review Committee and of the Clinical Guidelines subcommittee of the Endocrine Society, and he serves as chair of the NIH AIDS, Clinical Research and Epidemiology Study Section.
From page 423...
... for his work on boiling heat transfer and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety.
From page 424...
... -1, SLS-2, D-2, and Neurolab) and the MIR space station; he is currently the PI of a large, cardiovascular experiment on the ISS called the ICV, or Integrated Cardiovascular experiment.
From page 425...
... Dr. Logan is a fellow and past president of the American Ceramic Society and the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers and is on the external advisory board for Clemson University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
From page 426...
... ; he received honor awards for research both from the American College of Sports Medicine and from the Environmental and Exercise Section of APS, and he received the Founders Award from the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology. Besides being chair of the NIH Applied Physiology and Bioengineering Study Section, he has served on numerous space-related panels, including the NASA Review Panel on Space Medicine and Countermeasures, the NASA-IDI Cardiopulmonary Physiology Review Panel, and AIBS panels for microgravity research, and on the NASA-Bion Biospecimen Peer Review Panel.
From page 427...
... As a corollary to these experiments, Dr. Baldwin's group, in conjunction with NASA, recently sent rats on several space shuttle missions to study the effects of weightless ness on skeletal muscle.
From page 428...
... PETER R CAVANAGH is a professor and the endowed chair in Women's Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he is building a research and education program on the bone and joint health of active women.
From page 429...
... He won numerous awards for his research in musculoskeletal biomechanics and bone biology, including grants from NIH, the Fuller Albright Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and the Outstanding Young Investigator Awards from the Whitaker Foundation and the Health Future Foundation.
From page 430...
... He has served on numerous NRC or IOM committees, including the Committee on Advanced Space Technology and the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine. He is currently a member of the NRC Committee on Aerospace Medicine and the Medicine of Extreme Environments.
From page 431...
... in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University. She is currently a member of the NRC's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and has served on many NAE committees, including the Aerospace Engineering Peer Committee, the Audit Committee (2005-2008)
From page 432...
... He continues to make extensive use of NASA ground-based low-gravity facilities such as drop towers and low-gravity aircraft and has completed experiments on the space shuttle, the Russian Mir space sta tion, and the ISS. While in the private sector, Dr.
From page 433...
... He has received numerous awards, including the ACS Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, the ACS Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, the Optical Society of America William F Meggers Prize, and the Bomem-Michelson Prize.
From page 434...
... For more than 16 years, he has studied astronauts living and working in space. He has been the PI of two large NASA-funded international studies involving the Mir space station and the ISS, and he is currently the PI of a NASA-funded study aimed at examining the effects of increased crew anatomy in space.
From page 435...
... He served as a member of the NRC Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, as chair of the Panel on Human Behavior, and as a member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the Committee on NASA's Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap. MRIGANKA SUR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.§ INTEGRATIVE AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FOR THE HUMAN SYSTEMS PANEL JAMES A
From page 436...
... . He served as chair of NASA's Science Working Group for the Space Station Centrifuge Facility, as a member of the NASA Cardiopulmonary Discipline Working Group, as chair of the NASA Panel for Human Health from Earth to Space, as a member of NASA Committee on Development of Countermeasures for Long Duration Space Flight, as a member of the International Multidisciplinary Artificial Gravity Project Review, as a co-chair of the NASA Human Health Countermeasure Element Standing Review Panel, and as a member of the NASA Human Research Program Cardiovascular Risks Panel.
From page 437...
... He served as a PI on the NASA Neurolab Mission aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1998. He is the editor of the Primer on the Autonomic Nervous System and Clinical and Translational Science: Introduction to Human Research, the first textbook of the new discipline of clinical and translational research.
From page 438...
... and has been on the editorial advisory board of The Plant Journal since 1994. Her numerous awards include a Fulbright Fellowship, the Savery Award for Outstanding Young Faculty at the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences, and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Fellow.
From page 439...
... , the Review of NASA Strategic Roadmaps: Space Station Panel (2005) , the Committee on NASA's Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap (2004-2006)
From page 440...
... E THOMAS MAHEFKEY, JR., is a consultant with Heat Transfer Technology Consultants, serving several firms in the areas of heat transfer and energy conversion.
From page 441...
... Dr. Newman previously served as a member of the NRC Committee on Advanced Technol ogy for Human Support in Space, the Committee on Engineering Challenges to the Long-Term Operation of the International Space Station, the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, the Steering Committee for Workshops on Issues of Technology Development for Human and Robotic Exploration and Development of Space, and the Committee on Full System Testing and Evaluation of Personal Protection Equipment Ensembles in Simulated Chemical and Biological Warfare Environments.
From page 442...
... ALAN WILHITE is the Langley Distinguished Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and he also serves as the co-director of the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Aerospace Systems Engineering. He currently resides at the National Institute of Aerospace teaching graduate classes and conducting research at the NASA Langley Research Center.
From page 443...
... in physics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. REGINA NORTH, consultant, has specialized throughout her research career in the area of human behavior in isolated and confined environments, including Arctic and Antarctic stations, offshore oil platforms, and the Mir space station and the International Space Station, and she has conducted field research in these environments.
From page 444...
... LAURA TOTH is a senior program assistant for the National Materials Advisory Board, the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, and the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. She has been with the NRC since 2002 and has also worked with the Transportation Research Board and the Space Studies Board.


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