Full Name
Jay Buckey
Job Title
Professor of Medicine
Company
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jay C. Buckey, Jr., is a Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and an adjunct professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1977, and his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School in 1981.
Dr. Buckey has 30 years of research and clinical experience in aerospace/undersea physiology and medicine. In 1993, he served as an alternate payload specialist astronaut for the dedicated life sciences research mission Spacelab Life Sciences 2. In 1998, Dr. Buckey flew in space as a payload specialist astronaut on the STS-90 Neurolab mission. He completed 256 orbits of the Earth and logged 6.3 million miles aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. During this mission, he was the first person to perform recovery surgery in space, operating on rodents. After the mission, he co-edited a book, The Neurolab Spacelab Mission: Neuroscience Research in Space, published in 2003, which summarized the mission’s results.
He is the author of Space Physiology (Oxford University Press, 2006), a practical handbook designed to help physicians and astronauts maintain crewmembers’ health in space. Space Physiology won the Luigi Napolitano book award in 2007.
Dr. Buckey also served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force Reserve from 1987 – 1995. He has flown in F-16, F-4, T-38, B-52 and AWACS aircraft.
Dr. Buckey performs research to overcome the barriers to long-duration spaceflight including work on developing interactive-media-based psychological training and treatment programs to provide autonomous, self-directed psychological support for isolated and confined crews. He directs a lab at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and started the hyperbaric medicine clinical program at DHMC, which he currently runs. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Dr. Buckey has 30 years of research and clinical experience in aerospace/undersea physiology and medicine. In 1993, he served as an alternate payload specialist astronaut for the dedicated life sciences research mission Spacelab Life Sciences 2. In 1998, Dr. Buckey flew in space as a payload specialist astronaut on the STS-90 Neurolab mission. He completed 256 orbits of the Earth and logged 6.3 million miles aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. During this mission, he was the first person to perform recovery surgery in space, operating on rodents. After the mission, he co-edited a book, The Neurolab Spacelab Mission: Neuroscience Research in Space, published in 2003, which summarized the mission’s results.
He is the author of Space Physiology (Oxford University Press, 2006), a practical handbook designed to help physicians and astronauts maintain crewmembers’ health in space. Space Physiology won the Luigi Napolitano book award in 2007.
Dr. Buckey also served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force Reserve from 1987 – 1995. He has flown in F-16, F-4, T-38, B-52 and AWACS aircraft.
Dr. Buckey performs research to overcome the barriers to long-duration spaceflight including work on developing interactive-media-based psychological training and treatment programs to provide autonomous, self-directed psychological support for isolated and confined crews. He directs a lab at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and started the hyperbaric medicine clinical program at DHMC, which he currently runs. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
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