Keynote Speaker Announced
We are pleased to announce that Smith L. Johnston III, MD, MS, FAsMA will deliver the Keynote Address for Wellstar College’s Research & Engagement Day 2024 entitled, “Space Medicine: Terrestrial Applications for Human Health, Performance, and Longevity.”
Dr. Smith Johnston received a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1976 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1981 from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1984 to 1990, Dr. Johnston completed residencies in Internal and Aerospace Medicine from Wright State University, as well as a Master’s of Science in Aerospace and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Johnston is a member of the Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Dept. of Preventive, Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Johnston has spent most of his career as a Medical Officer and Operational Flight Surgeon for NASA Medical Operations Branch at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Over the past 30 years he has supported the medical care of the active Astronaut Corps, their families, and the retired Astronauts. He has been the lead physician for the International Space Station (ISS) Emergency Medical System and Crew Return Vehicle development and has supported two Expedition ISS missions and over 25 Shuttle missions. Before retiring from NASA in 2019, he served as the Medical Director of NASA-JSC Aerospace and Occupational Medicine Clinics and was the lead of NASA’s Astronaut Medical Selection and Retention Standards, and the Fatigue Management and Human Health, Performance, and Longevity Programs. Dr. Johnston was Board Certified in Aerospace Medicine from the American Board of Preventive Medicine in 2000 and 2010 and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. After retiring from NASA in 2019, he became the Chief Medical Officer for Axiom Space, Inc. and recently retired from that position in 2023. Dr. Johnston’s expertise centers on taking the innovations discovered from the US and International Space Programs to benefit not only the lives of the Astronauts and Cosmonauts, but also his Earth-bound patients.
Please join us for Dr. Johnston’s address on the ways space-age medical innovations can translate to and transform everyday lives here on Earth! The keynote address will be at 4 pm on April 15 in the Student Center University Rooms during RED.
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