The International Space Station (ISS) Research and Development Conference announced recently that Serena Auñón-Chancellor will be a keynote speaker at its 8th annual meeting, July 29 to August 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The ISS Research and Development Conference connects commercial companies, academic institutions, and government agencies in order to foster new innovations, breakthroughs, and discoveries onboard the orbiting laboratory.
The 2019 event is held in coordination with the ISS National Lab, the American Astronautical Society, and NASA.
Serena Auñón-Chancellor was selected in July 2009 as one of fourteen members of the twentieth NASA astronaut class. She graduated in November 2011 from astronaut candidate training, which included spacewalks, robotics, and two months in Antarctica searching for meteorites. Most of that time was spent living on the ice 200 nautical miles from the South Pole.
Dr. Auñón-Chancellor began working with NASA as a flight surgeon in 2006. Certified in aerospace medicine, she has handled medical issues for the commercial crew and International Space Station medical operations for Space Station crew members in Russia’s Star City. She served as deputy crew surgeon for Nasa Space Shuttle Mission STS-127.
In 2018, Auñón-Chancellor was a member of Expedition 56. Aboard the International Space Station, she studied the effects of microgravity on the body. After six months spent in space, the effects on eyesight are often permanent. Auñón-Chancellor’s crewmates Ricky Arnold and Alex Gerst also worked to help doctors understand what happens to human eyes in the weightless environment of microgravity.
Auñón-Chancellor graduated from Poudre High School, Fort Collins, Colorado in 1993. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University in 1997 and a Doctorate of Medicine from The University of Texas – Health Science Center at Houston in 2001.
She also completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, in 2004, and then completed an additional year as Chief Resident in the Internal Medicine Department in 2005. She completed an aerospace medicine residency at UTMB as well as a Master of Public Health in 2007.
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