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The Space Surgery Association (SSA) is an international group of surgeons, other physicians, and specialists in procedural medicine, scientists, and engineers working jointly to develop capabilities to perform surgery in the spaceflight environment. We are an affiliate organization of AsMA, the Aerospace Medical Association.
A group of Aerospace Medicine enthusiasts with a special interest in..
Space Surgery Blog
2M ago
Hello SSA Members!
The recordings are now available from the International Humans in Space Summit, featuring our own Dr. Rowena Christiansen, Dr. Art Formanek, Dr. George Pantalos, and several other AsMA luminaries.
The videos can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4PAynk-yILssi39Zin-qOnKvSDnJrerh. Enjoy ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
10M ago
Come to the International Conference of Aviation and Space Medicine (ICASM) conference from October 26-29 in Abu Dhabi! SSA’s own Dr. Ashok Narayanamoorthi will be in attendance and presenting. Hope to see you there ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
10M ago
Greetings, SSA Members! It was a pleasure to see some of you at AsMA this year.
Please consider checking out this upcoming webinar on Wednesday, June 7th from 10am-11am PDT with SSA’s own George Pantalos on advancing medical technology with suborbital rocket-powered vehicles. This webinar is part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, which offers up to $1 million to rapidly test new technologies on suborbital flights.
The program shares the deadline for its 2023 Preliminary Tech Flight Proposals with the day of this webinar: June 7th, 2023. We hope you can join and wish you the best of luck ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Hello SSA surgeons, scientists, physicians, researchers, engineers, students, and community members! Interested in learning more about Aerospace Medicine while you exercise, clean the house, or commute?
Check out the YouTube playlist curated by SSA Executive Committee member Dr. Rowena Christiansen for her MD1 students at the University of Melbourne! We hope you enjoy ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
See Drs. Jeff Pantalos and Dani Carroll at the Johns Hopkins Space Surgery Mini-Symposoium Series October 25, 2022 at 2 p.m. EST ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
2y ago
Find new recordings of the SSA Lecture Series on our website under ‘About Space Surgery’! We will also continue to post our talks here in the future ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
2y ago
Karen Hughes Miller, Erica Sutton and George Pantalos published a paper in the journal Surgical Innovation with the title ‘Hierarchical Task Analysis Reimagined as a Planning Tool for Surgery During Exploration Space Flight’. Find the abstract and paper HERE ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
2y ago
Space Surgery Association scrub caps can be purchased HERE! Caps are $25 apiece, with a $3 kickback per cap to SSA ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
2y ago
Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia, has published a review paper on the topic of Space Surgery in the journal “Acta Astronautica”. Congratulations! Find the paper HERE. This is a great overview of what matters from a surgical perspective when planning long-term spaceflight ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
2y ago
Let’s meet at AsMA in Denver! We’ll have a booth set up with lots of fun things to see and talk about. We’ve also scheduled the following events:
Tuesday: SSA Group Meeting, 5-6pm in Columbine Room
Wednesday: Wings Over the Rockies after-dinner event — with hors d’oeuvres and live music
Thursday: SSA Panel
Also find a list of talks and other events HERE.
We look forward to meeting you at the AsMA Annual Meeting ..read more