session 3

Title

Medical Care for Humans in Space

type

oral

Description

This session focuses on medical care for astronauts including operational medicine aspects, countermeasure development and applications, as well as needs for future care for astronauts during long term, stays in space and missions to and on the Moon and Mars. A further focus will lie on medical care for passengers and operators of commercial suborbital and orbital space flights.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Prof. Satoshi Iwase, Aichi Medical University, Japan;

• Co-Chair: Prof. Oleg Orlov, Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russian Federation;

• Rapporteur: Prof. Hasan Birol Cotuk, Türkiye;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Katrin Stang, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany;