WSU Aerospace Medicine Faculty Dean Olson, MD, MS Division Chair and Program Director Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine Aeromedical Aspects of Aerospace Accidents

Thomas Jarnot, MD, MS Director of Curriculum/ Associate Director Environmental Medicine Aerospace Operations Space Medicine

Adrienne Stolfi, MSPH Biostatistics Epidemiology

Sharon Sherlock, DHA, RN Health Services Administration

Donna Klink, RN Program Coordinator

Welcome New Faculty Members! James McEachen, MD, ME, MPH Director of Aerospace Medicine Research Social and Behavioral Science Toxicology Dr. McEachen joined the Wright State Division of Aerospace Medicine in the Fall of 2013 after completing his fellowship in Aerospace Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He is Board Certified in Radiology and Aerospace Medicine with advanced degrees in electrical engineering and public health. Over the past year, Dr. McEachen has served as a Co-Principal Investigator on three DoD-sponsored research projects. He completed his medical school training at the University of Illinois followed by residency at Yale School of Medicine, and fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). Prior to becoming a physician, Dr. McEachen was a flight test engineer and graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School. He has acquired 1000+ hours in 35 different airframes as a flight test engineer and flight surgeon. In addition to his duties as a WSU Associate Professor, he serves as Chief of Aerospace Medicine with the 132d Fighter Wing, Iowa Air National Guard.

Richard Garrison, MD, MS Director of Flight Medicine Clinic Aeronautical Skills Aerospace Operations

Dr. Garrison is a graduate of the Wright State University Aerospace Medicine Program. He is a Clinical Professor at the Wright State University School of Medicine in Emergency Medicine in addition to an Associate Professor of Community Medicine. Dr. Garrison is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine along with Aerospace Medicine. He is also an FAA Senior Aviation Medical Examiner and a Certified Flight instructor in Airplanes, Instrument, and Gliders with Multi/Single Engine Land and Sea ratings. He is also an active glider pilot. Recently he was commissioned as a Flight Surgeon in the Ohio Air National Guard. Dr. Garrison began teaching with the Division of Aerospace Medicine in April of 2013.

James Elliott, MD, MPH Deputy Regional Flight Surgeon, FAA September 20, 2013

NASA/NAMI SPACE MEDICINE COURSE Video Teleconference Johnson Space Center, January 21-23, 2014 Geoffrey W. McCarthy, MD, MBA, DipAvMed Ejection Systems and Spatial Disorientation February 24, 2014

Chuck Doarn, MBA Telemedicine April 10, 2014 Swee Fan, MD, MS Aerospace Physiology and Aerospace Physiology Devices April 22, 2014

Dayton Airport visit to control tower, ATC, flight dispatch, and emergency services

US Air Force National Museum tour with AMIMO class

Neil Armstrong Museum class field trip Wapakoneta, OH

Class outing to Hyperbaric Chamber

Congrats to NAUI certified divers Mustafa, Kevin, and Chris…

...and diving 'distinguished graduate' Mustafa per NAUI Instructor Regina Bier

Dr. Leo completes his first successful landing in the class simulator

Dr. Garrison with his new advanced ground instructor Dr. Alaziz

Dr. Mustafa Alaziz, the first student in the Division of Aerospace Medicine’s new curriculum to receive his FAA Advanced Ground Instructor Certificate from Dr. Richard Garrison (CFII) and James Hupman (Designated Pilot Examiner). The new curriculum, will emphasize practical aerospace knowledge and it’s relation to theoretical and operational Aerospace Medicine practice. As part of the new curriculum all students will be expected to achieve this certification prior to completion of the MS program.

Mustafa Alaziz Hometown:

Baghdad, Iraq

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3706 Kettering ct. Fairborn, OH, 45324 [email protected]

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2013 - Present Flight Surgeon 2012 - Present ENT residency , King Abdullah University Hospital, Jordan 2011 - 2012 Rotating internship , Jordan University Hospital, Jordan

2013-Present MS Aerospace Medicine, WSU, Dayton, OH 2004-2010 M.B.B.S, HUCOM, Yemen

Soccer and swimming

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”

Aerospace Medicine physician

Ali Alhammad Hometown:

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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2543 Coldsprings Dr. Beavercreek, OH (937) 546-5865 [email protected]

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2008-2013 Flight Surgeon, Aviation Medicine Clinic, King Abdullah AFB, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 2004-2008 ENT resident, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 2002-2004 General Practitioner , King Faisal Naval Base Clinic, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2013-Present MS Aerospace Medicine, WSU, OH 2001-2002 Military Diploma, Prince Sultan Military college , Dahran, Saudi Arabia 1999-2000 Oregon King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 MD, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Traveling, Movies

Christopher Lienesch Hometown:

Kalispell, MT

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405 Reed Rd, Apt. F Beavercreek, OH (208)340-3732 [email protected]

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2013-Present Flight Surgeon, 173rd FW, Oregon ANG 2008-2012 Flight Surgeon, 391st Fighter Squadron Mountain Home AFB, ID 1991-2000 F-15E Weapon Systems Officer, USAF

Current Resident in Aerospace Medicine, WSU 2007-2008 PGY-1 Internship, Evanston, IL 2003-2007 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine, Portland, OR 1987-1991 BA Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Interests:

Photography and enjoying the great outdoors.

Chris says...

“A true traveler has no fixed plans.”

After 5 years...

Working a little and enjoying life a lot.

Leo Mylabathula Hometown:

Narsapur, India

Contact Information:

2043 Lakewood Dr, #D Kettering, OH, 45420 [email protected]

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2013-Present Flight Surgeon 2011-13 Medispa Physician, Steiner Transocean Ltd. 2009-10 Internship, King George Hospital, India.

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Chess, physics, philosophy and just winging it.

Leo says…

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

After 5 years…

I hope to be a long way down the road less travelled

Emmanuel Urquieta Hometown:

Mexico City, Mexico

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3024 Brickwall Dr. Apt 2F Kettering, OH 45420 (937) 286-2880 [email protected]

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2012-2013 Flight Surgeon, Mexico City Police Department Helicopter Emergency Medical Services, Mexico City, Mexico 2012-2013 Epidemiology Assistant Professor, Anahuac University School of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico 2013-Present MS in Aerospace Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 2012 Aerospace Medicine Research Course, Wyle NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 2011 Private Pilot License, Escuela de Aviación México, Mexico City, Mexico 2009-2010 Undergraduate Internship, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 2006-2013 MD, Anahuac University School of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences, Mexico

Interests:

Flying, reading, traveling.

Emmanuel says...

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”

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Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology

Kevin VanValkenburg Hometown:

Wauseon, OH

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428 Schlatter Drive Dayton, OH 45433 (830)719-5066 [email protected]

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2010-2013 Chief of Medical Staff, Hickam AFB, HI 2005-2010 SGH and Flight Surgeon, Laughlin AFB, TX 2002-2005 Staff Physician/Medical Director Family Medicine Clinic, Kelly Clinic, Kelly USA, TX Staff Physician, Family Medicine Clinic, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX 1998-2001 Primary Care Medicine, Wetzel Clinic, Clinton, MO 1980-1991 Research Scientist, Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, TX 2013-Present, Resident in Aerospace Medicine, WSU/Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 1995-1998 Family Medicine Residency, Carson City Hospital, Carson City, MI 1991-1995 Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, TX 1975-1979 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Texas Lutheran College, Seguin, TX Family, Traveling, Air Force mission, Woodworking, Martial Arts, SCUBA, Flying “Integrity above all else. Always do what is right, not what is selfish or convenient.” Chief of Aerospace Medicine (SGP); Aeromedical Dental Squadron Commander, advancing to MAJCOM.

John Ludtke Hometown:

Eaton Rapids, MI

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405 Reed Rd, #F Beavercreek, OH 45440 (517) 749-9448 [email protected]

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Private pilot, tennis, drums, history

Rick says…

“Don’t make it more than it is.”

After 5 years…

Continuing to serve as a flight surgeon and working in the civilian space industry.

Nevine Mahmoud Hometown:

San Francisco, CA

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1101 National Ave. San Francisco, CA 94066

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Attending Physician and Chairperson M & M Committee, Hyperbaric chamber and Dive Accidents, Ronald Reagan Ballistic missile Defense Test Site (RTS), Kwajalein, Marshall Islands

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Space Medicine Association Scholarship sponsored by Dr. Jeffrey R. Davis International Association of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots Scholarship Award. The 2013-2014 Jeffrey R. Davis, MD, Aerospace Medicine Endowed Scholarship Wright State University-Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dr. and Mrs. J. Harold Brown Scholarship in Aerospace Medicine to “deserving physicians who are enrolled in the Aerospace Medicine Residency Pro gram of the Wright State University School of Medicine” Co-author of abstract presented at UPMC (University of Pittsburgh) Department of medicine Annual Research Day

Flying, Advanced and rescue Scuba Diver (PADI certified), tennis, volleyball, hiking, and cross country skiing

Nevine says…

“it does not matter how deep you dive as long as you come up.”

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Work as a NASA Flight Surgeon or join the USAF.

2013-14 Masters Program

Graduate Student Research Project Title

Ibrahim Albrethen

Chronic Back and Neck Pain in Pilots Flying Different Aircraft

Mansoor Aljohany

Fatigue in Aviation Industry

Hussein Alkahtani

Relation between air travel and venous thromboembolism

Hesham Alsaeed

Types of Cardiac Arrhythmia resulted from Centrifugal force

Manea AlShehhi

Heat Stress in Flight Cockpits in the Desert Climate

Obaid AlSuwaidi

The Relationship Between Color Vision and High Altitude

Mesfer Alzahrani

Motion sickness : Detailed review of different countermeasures

David Andrus

The Aeromedical Implications of Astigmatism

Nathan Buila

Manned Aerospace Commercial Vehicles, Microgravity, and

Karina Descartin

John Ludtke

The Application of Mindfulness Breathing Practice in the Management of Fatigue in Long Duration Space Flight Meta-analysis of Relationships Among Blood Pressure, Intracranial Pressure and Myopia in Hyperbaric Patients Improved cognitive performance in high altitude operations through enhanced sleep The Difference in the Laboratory Findings of an Annual Medical Examination between Fighter Pilots and Other Air Force Officers Willingness to Respond for Radiologic Incidents: A Hands-On Approach

Nevine Mahmoud

Aeromedical Concerns of Amputee Pilots with Advanced Robotic Prosthesis

Matthew Ramage

Current Pain Management in Theater Aeromedical Evacuation and a Discussion of the Way Forward: A Flight Surgeon’s Perspective Critical Evaluation of the Causes of Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Air Crew

Tolessa Gurmessa Richard Kipp Euntaek Lee

Elwalid Suliman

Congratulations to all recent Masters’ Program Graduates 2013-2014!

Newest Board Graduates American Board of Preventive Medicine new diplomats in the specialty of Aerospace Medicine Christopher Bird, MD, MS Michael Hodges, MD, MS Marvin Jackson, MD, MS (above are all recent grads of WSU) James McEachen, MD, MPH

Alumni Updates James R Popplow, CD, MD, MSc, FACPM LCol (Ret'd) RCAF/RCMS Flight Surgeon Consultant in Aerospace, Occ & Env Medicine The big news from here is my actual and real retirement from the working world as of 30 Aug 2013. My last position was as a civilian contractor filling in as the Royal Canadian Air Force, Aeromedical Standards and Clinical Services (ASCS) Flight Surgeon. Back in 2007, due to an acute shortage of uniformed senior Flight Surgeons during recent overseas activities, I was recruited back into my old job, as a civilian. Canada is officially out of that commitment now and a new younger Flight Surgeon was posted in to allow my rather overdue retirement! I am coping well with "not going to work" and looking forward to the AsMA meeting in San Diego and seeing everyone again. Steve Schwendeman, MD, MS New contact info: Civil Aerospace Medical Institute Aerospace Medical Certification Division, AAM-300 6500 South MacArthur Oklahoma City, OK 73169 (405) 954-3412 Office (405) 922-1101 Mobile Akiko Matsumoto, MD, PhD, MSc, FACP Flight Surgeon, Astronaut Medical Operations Group & Space Biomedical Research Office, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Current position: Senior Medical Officer, JAXA I am currently working in mission control center of NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, as the JAXA Crew Surgeon of 37 Soyuz/ISS Expedition 38/39, to support JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, who has become the first Japanese commander of ISS. I am also assigned as the JAXA Crew Surgeon of 43 Soyuz/ISS Expedition 44/45 in 2015. Soon to be Chair(starting fall 2014), ISS Inflight Clinical Medicine Working Group, as well as other working groups and international activities in space medicine field of the ISS program. Also Visiting Professor, Tokushima University Graduate School of Medicine. e-mail: [email protected] Maj Clifton "GNOME" Nowell, DO, MS I finished the RAM and have just finished the first year of my Family Practice residency. I will finish this current residency in 2016. From there, it's back into Aerospace Medicine for the Air Force. My wife just delivered baby number four, another boy, and his name is Kaisen Lucas Nowell, born April 2nd, weighing 7 lbs, 12 ounces. Kevin D. McKee, DO, MS I've worked for the State of Ohio for past 2 years as the Medical director at Franklin Medical Center Urgent Care, Ohio Dept of Rehab and Corrections. I have been married for 7 years and am a proud father of 2 boys age 5 and 2. In my off time when not busy playing with the kids, I play drums for a church band and also play guitar with a praise band. We play worship music for a local womens recovery center every month. My fellow residents 1997-1999 were Robert Haddon and Charles Sweeney. I would like to ask how they are and what they are doing these days. Swee Fan, MD, MS Dr. Fan has been added as a Partially Affiliated Faculty with WSU-Division of Aerospace Medicine.

Prof.Thais Russomano, MD, MSc, PhD Current positions: Founder and Head of the Microgravity Centre in Brazil, Senior Lecturer at Kings College London, contributing to Aviation and Space related courses. Recent news: Visited Moscow, Russia last year to represent Brazil as part of the International Space Committee ISO/TC 20/SC 14/WG 6 - Space systems - Man- Life activity support systems and equipment integration in space flight. Presented the MicroG Centre at the 64th International Astronautical Congress, which was held in Beijing, China, in Sept 2013. Tel: +55-51-98060667 (Brazil) Tel: +44 7905779555 (UK) www.thaisrussomano.com Dr. Chi Sekiguchi I am mainly working as an internist at the private hospital as a vice president and also partly working at JAXA as a space medicine consultant. Lt Col Michael Hodges, MD, MS In May 2013 I presented my Residency Research "Epidural use in Aeromedical Evacuation” at the 2013 AsMA Conference in Chicago, IL. Graduated from United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine as a Residency Trained Aerospace Provider, June 2013. Recently became Board Certified in Aerospace Medicine. In April 2014 I completed a two week Faculty Development Rotation in the Department of Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University. I will become an SGP somewhere in the Air force in July 2014. Donato Borrillo, MD, JD, MS As plant medical advisor for Chrysler Jeep Assembly Complex in Toledo, this year I've had the pleasure of seeing the launch of a new car line, the Jeep Cherokee, and continued production of the ever popular Jeep Wrangler. FIAT has expanded our plant by $500 million and we have approximately 4,000 employees, producing some 1,500 cars a day. I continue to practice wound care and hyperbarics, and am on staff with University of Toledo Medical Center (multiplace), St. Luke's (monoplace), Toledo Hospital (monoplace), Blanchard Valley (monoplace) and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Bedford (monoplace). I was a speaker at the UHMS Midwest Chapter meeting in March of 2014. My law practice with Zoll, Kranz, and Borgess is exciting, as we are involved with metal-on-metal hip litigation. Four kids (Jessica, Nick, Caroline, Rocco) and wife (Christine) are healthy and enjoying spring after a very long winter in northwest Ohio. Still flying a Piper Warrior and boating on our Egg Harbor Tournament Fisherman. Contact Information: [email protected] 419-466-5512 Dr. Philip J Scarpa New positions: Deputy Chief Medical Officer, NASA-Kennedy Space Center, Florida 2014-15 President, Aerospace Medical Association Christopher C. Nagle, MD, MPH, MS I'm working for the USAF as a flight surgeon. PO Box 574 Flint Hill, VA 22627 (937) 369-8778 (cell) Robin Dodge, MD, MS Currently I am doing some teaching of second year med students.

Richard A. Scheuring, DO, MS, RMSK, FAsMA I am assigned as deputy flight surgeon for ISS commander Jeff Williams Exp 47/48 which will launch in March, 2016. I am still team lead for musculoskeletal/sports medicine and rehabilitation for NASA-JSC. I completed my musculoskeletal ultrasound fellowship with Dr. Tony Bouffard at Detroit Medical Center and passed the ARDMS RMSK certifying board exam to become a musculoskeletal sonologist. I am teaching faculty for the Mayo Clinic (Rochester) musculoskeletal ultrasound course and teaching faculty for Houston Methodist Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine fellowship program. Still a Lieutenant Colonel serving in the US Army Reserves as a flight surgeon at the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Ft. Rucker. Contact info: NASA-Johnson Space Center 2101 Nasa Rd 1- SD2 Houston, TX 77058 Phone: 281-483-9769 Fax: 281-483-3392 Carlos Salicrup, MD, MS President of the Mexican Aerospace Medical Association. Oct 2013- Oct 2015 President Elect of the International Association of Military Flight Surgeon-Pilots, IAMFSP (AsMA Constituent) will be the first non-US citizen President on May 2015. Member of the Human Performance-Medical Committee of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, IFALPA. Medical Member of the government board of the Mexican Space Agency. On July 2013, Received the "Orden Cap. P.A. Augusto Marquet García" medal of merit, awarded by the Mexican Professional Pilots College for his professional career and 5,000 hours logged as a professional pilot. Boeing 787 First Officer of Aeromexico, promoted on July 2013 and completed training and check-ride on April 2014 President of the Scientific Committee for the ICASM 2014, Mexico City. I would like to remind everyone that this conference be held October 12-16, and would like to encourage all WSU alumni, residents, and students to attend this congress. It's the first time in decades that the ICASM congress will be hosted on the American continent and a great opportunity to show what WSU people are doing!!!

Class 36 would like to give special thanks to all of the faculty of WSU Division of Aerospace Medicine for their amazing support this year!