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Alves Is Incoming Presidentof AMDA

Paulo Magalhaes Alves, M.D., M.Sc., is thenew President of the Airlines MedicalDirectors Association (AMDA). He is currently

the Vice President ofAviation Health forMedAire, an inter-national organiza-tion that assists avia-tion companies(airlines, corporateaviation and privateowners) manage re-mote medicalevents. A native ofNatal, RN, Brazil, heearned an M.D. at

the School of Medicine, Federal University ofRio de Janeiro, in 1979. He served a residencyin Cardiology at University Hospital, FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro, and earned anM.Sc. in Cardiology, also at the FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro, in 1988. From1984 to 1987, he served as a Professor inCardiology at Fluminense Federal Universityand from 1983-1989 as a Cardiologist at VarigBrazilian Airlines. In 1989, he became Head ofMedical Informatics, division of Medical andSocial Assistance, at Federal University of Riode Janeiro, where he also served as Vice-Director from 1991-1992. In 1992, he took apost as the Head of the Division of Researchand Technology at Laranjeiras CardiologyHospital. In 1993, he became the Director ofHuman Resources there. Starting in 1994, heserved as Regional Medical Manager at VarigBrazilian Airlines in Rio de Janeiro until 1996.From 1996-2006, he also served as MedicalDirector at the Ruben Berta Foundation, VarigBrazilian Airlines.

During that same time, from 1993 to 2007,Dr. Alves was a Cardiologist in the CoronaryCare Unit of University Hospital, FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro. He also served asCardiologist in the Intermediate Care Unit,Laranjeiras Cardiology Hospital, BrazilianMinistry of Health, from 1984-2007. From1997-2006, he was also a BLS InstructorTrainer and from 1997-2007, a CAME forTransport Canada.

Dr. Alves has been Secretary-General andthen President of the Brazilian Society ofAerospace Medicine, a member of theScientific Committee of ICASM in 2000,Chairman of the Airlines Medical DirectorsProgram Committee in 2009, and a member ofthe IATA Medical Advisory Group. Currently,he is Vice-President of Aviation and MaritimeHealth Worldwide at MedAire, Inc., Vice-President of the Airlines Medical DirectorsAssociation, a Fellow of AsMA, and a memberof the AsMA Air Transport MedicineCommittee.

Dr. Alves is also a member of theInternational Maritime Health Association, theBrazilian Society of Cardiology, the Brazilian

Society of Aerospace Medicine, and theAmerican Telemedicine Association. In thepast, he was responsible for the AED on Boardproject at Varig Brazilian Airlines, a recipientof the George Kidera Award from the AirlinesMedical Directors Association in 2010, and arecipient of the Boothby-Edwards Award fromthe AsMA in 2012.

DiBiase to Lead ANS

Cathy DiBiase, BSN, RN, is the newPresident of the Aerospace Nursing Society(ANS). She is currently an Aerospace

Medicine SupportSpecialist andResearch Nurse atInnovative HealthApplications (IHA)at Kennedy SpaceCenter, FL. She gother RN license fromthe Florida StateBoard of Nursing in1983 after earning aB.S. in Nursing atBethune-CookmanUniversity, Daytona

Beach, FL. She then served as Staff Nurse atHalifax Regional Medical Center in DaytonaBeach until 1985, when she transferred to BocaRaton Community Hospital. In 1989, she be-came a Staff Nurse and Relief Charge Nurse inthe ICU at Jess Parrish Memorial Hospital inTitusville, FL, and then a Staff Nurse inTelemetry/ICU at Human Hospital inDaytona Beach. During that time, she alsoserved as a Critical Care Nurse in the CCU atDelray Community Hospital in Delray Beach.In 1991, she became a Nurse CaseManager/Home Health Nurse at ParagonHome Healthcare in Daytona Beach and alsoserved as a Critical Care Clinician at BethesdaMemorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, FL. Shebecame an Aerospace Nurse in 1994, workingin Medical Operations at The Bionetics Corp at

Kennedy Space Center. In 2009, she took hercurrent position. From 1998 to 2011, she wasalso an Emergency Nurse at Parrish MedicalCenter in Titusville.

For the last 20 years, Ms. DiBiase hasworked at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).Her primary responsibilities during the spaceshuttle program included the care of U.S. andinternational astronauts prior to launch, onlaunch and landing day, and post-landing. She has provided a variety of services from theadministration of supportive postflight crewcare to mission contingency planning. She hasassisted with the coordination of medicalforces for mission support, including civilianand Department of Defense readiness training.When not working directly on mission sup-port, she contributed to NASA’s BiomedicalResearch Laboratory, which was charged withconducting life support equipment testing, aswell as studying problems associated withwork at KSC (i.e., motion sickness and heatstress). With the end of the U.S. shuttle pro-gram and the movement of manned space-flight support to Russia, she now managesseveral research projects geared to improveour performance in this extreme environment.

Ms. DiBiase is an Associate Fellow of theAerospace Medical Association (AsMA), anHonorary Member of the NASA FlightSurgeons, a member of the Space MedicineBranch, and a member of the ANS, where shewas President once before from 2007-2008. Shehas been honored by NASA as a recipient ofthe Silver Snoopy in 2012 and with the SpaceFlight Awareness Honoree Award in 2002. Shewas a first runner up for the Space MedicineAssociation’s 2011 Young Investigator Awardand was a recipient of AsMA’s Mary T.Klinker award in 2009. She is a member of theCorporate and Sustaining Member PrimerProject. Her other awards include a PublicService Group Achievement Award, a KSCGroup Achievement Award, a Kudos Awardfrom LSSC, KSC, a KSC Teamwork Award,and an Acme Award.

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Constituent Organization Presidents for 2013-14

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Mavity to Head ASAMS

Col. Mark E. “Mav” Mavity is the incom-ing President of the American Society ofAerospace Medicine Specialists (ASAMS). He

serves as the Com-mand Surgeon U.S.Air Forces CentralCommand andNinth Air Force,Shaw Air ForceBase, SC. In thisrole he is responsi-ble for comprehen-sive medical sup-port for Coalitionforces at 14 contin-gency operating lo-

cations in 8 countries across the CentralCommand Area of Responsibility.

Col. Mavity received a regular commis-sion in May 1984 as a distinguished graduatefrom the U.S. Air Force Academy. He thenattended the Uniformed Services Universityof the Health Sciences where he received hisM.D. degree in May 1988. He completed atransitional internship at Malcolm GrowMedical Center in June 1989. After serving 7years as a Squadron Medical Element flightsurgeon at Nellis and Hill Air Force Bases, hecompleted his advanced specialty training inthe USAF Aerospace Medicine Residency atBrooks City-Base in June 1999. Subsequentlyhe has been the Chief of Aerospace Medicineat both Kunsan AB, 1999-2000, and atCannon AFB, 2000-2002.

Col. Mavity next served as the comman-der of the 95th Aerospace MedicineSquadron, Edwards AFB, from 2002 to 2004,before being assigned as the Chief ofOperational Medicine, Office of the USAFSurgeon General, 2004-2006, and then as theDeputy Air Surgeon, Aeromedical andProfessional Services for the Air NationalGuard, 2006-2008. Subsequently, he com-manded the 332d Expeditionary MedicalGroup and Air Force Theater Hospital atJoint Base Balad, Iraq, from 2008-2009. Priorto his current assignment he served on theHQ Air Force Staff as the Director of MedicalReadiness and the Chief of ExpeditionaryPolicy and Operations, 2009-2011. He is achief flight surgeon with over 1400 flighthours in various aircraft, including 650 hoursin the F-16. He is board certified by theAmerican Board of Preventive Medicine inthe specialties of Aerospace Medicine andGeneral Preventive Medicine.

Col. Mavity's awards and decorations in-clude the Bronze Star, Meritorious ServiceMedal with seven oak leaf clusters, AirMedal with one oak leaf cluster, AerialAchievement Medal, Meritorious UnitAward, Air Force Outstanding Unit CitationAward, Air Force Organizational ExcellenceAward, National Defense Service Medal,Southwest Asia Service Medal, Iraq Cam-paign Medal, Global War on TerrorismExpeditionary Medal, Global War onTerrorism Service Medal, and the KoreanDefense Service Medal. This month, he willassume duty as the next Command Surgeon,U.S. Central Command, MacDill AFB, FL. Heis a Fellow of the Aerospace MedicalAssociation, has served on the Bylaws,Education & Training, and Resolutions

Committees, and currently serves on theAwards and Scientific Program Committees.He is also a member of the Society of U.S.Air Force Flight Surgeons.

Brown to Lead AsHFA

Lt. Col. Cynthia E. Brown, USAF, BSC, isthe incoming President of the AerospaceHuman Factors Association (AsHFA).Currently the HQ Deputy Division Chief,

AFRL SpecialPrograms Office,she earned a B.S. inBiology atJacksonville StateUniversity,Jacksonville, AL, in1983, and an M.S. inHuman Physiologyat AuburnUniversity, Auburn,AL, in 1986. Shetook the AerospacePhysiologist Course

and the Hyperbaric Training for AerospacePhysiologists in 1988, when she started hercareer as a Research Aerospace Physiologistat the Armstrong Laboratory at the U.S. AirForce School of Aerospace Medicine (USAF-SAM), Crew Technology Division, BrooksCity-Base, TX. In 1991, she became theExecutive Officer and Commander at HQHuman Systems Center, AFSC, also atBrooks City-Base. From 1992 to 1993, sheserved as Plans and Programs ExecutiveTechnical Manager at the Armstrong LabPlans & Programs, Human Systems Center,AFMC, Brooks City-Base.

In 1993, Lt. Col. Brown became a HumanFactors Scientist and Aerospace PhysiologyHuman Factors Fellow at HQ AFOTECHuman Factors & Training Analysis, SystemAnalysis Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM. Shewas then promoted to Chief of AeromedicalIntegration at HQ AFOTEC/XP in 1995. In1996, she transferred to the position of C-130JDeputy Test Director for Human Factors atAFOTEC, Marietta, GA. Then, in 1999, shebecame C-130J Operational Test Director atAFOTEC, Keesler AFB, MS, which she helduntil 2001, when she took a position as StaffOfficer for the Air Force Surgeon General atthe Medical Modernization Directorate, AFMedical Support Agency, Office of the AirForce Surgeon General, Falls Church, VA.From 2005-2007, she served as ProgramManager, Battlefield Air Operations Kit, atthe Human Effectiveness Directorate, AirForce Research Laboratory, Wright-PattersonAFB, OH. She became Division Chief,Information Operations and SpecialPrograms, at the Human EffectivenessDirectorate in 2007 and then, in 2008, she ac-cepted the position she holds now.

Lt. Col. Brown is certified in AerospacePhysiology by the Aerospace MedicalAssociation (AsMA) and in Aviation Safetyby the University of Southern California. Sheis a Life Time Member of the Air ForceAssociation and a Fellow of the AsMA. Sheis also a member of the AerospacePhysiologist Society and the AerospaceHuman Factors Association. She received theWiley Post Award for OperationalPhysiology in 1991.

Faaborg Incoming AsPSPresident

Maj. Troy P. Faaborg, USAF, will be thenew President of the Aerospace PhysiologySociety (AsPS). A native of Iowa, he earned aBachelors in Science, Exercise, and Sport

Science at IowaState University inAmes, IA, in 1998and a Master ofAeronauticalScience at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity in Enid,OK, in 2003. Healso earned an M.S.in Psychology(Visual Cognitionand Human

Performance), also in 2003, at the Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He passedboard certification in Aerospace Physiologyin 2007 and received a Masters in MilitaryOperational Art and Science from the AirUniversity, Maxwell AFB, AL, in 2009.

From 1998 to 1999, Maj. Faaborg wasChief of Aircrew Training Element at the74th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. He then became anAerospace Physiologist at the 71st MedicalOperations Squadron, Vance AFB, OK, until2001, when he was selected to be a student atthe Air Force Institute of Technology,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.From 2003 to 2006, he served as HumanPerformance Training Flight Commander atthe 31st Aerospace Medicine Squadron atAviano AB, Italy. He then became Chief ofHuman Performance Enhancement at the509th Medical Operations Squadron,Whiteman AFB, MO, until 2010, when hebegan his current assignment as Chief ofHuman Factors Safety at HQ Air ForceGlobal Strike Command Safety Directorate atBarksdale AFB, LA. He is also currently serv-ing as an Adjunct Associate Professor atEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University,where he has taught over 65 graduate andundergraduate courses.

Maj. Faaborg’s awards include three AirForce Achievement Medals, two Air ForceCommendation Medals, two MilitaryOutstanding Volunteer Service Medals, theWiley Post Outstanding OperationalPhysiologist Award from AsPS, the Air ForceMeritorious Service Medal, the NationalDefense Service Medal, and the Global Waron Terrorism Service Medal. He is anAssociate Fellow of AsMA and has been amember of AsMA and the AsPS since 2003.He served on AsMA’s certification commit-

FAA MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

April 1-3, 2014; Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) Civil AerospaceMedical Institute (CAMI) colloquium onPostmortem ForensicToxicology inAviation; Mike Monroney AeronauticalCenter, Oklahoma City, OK. There is noregistration fee, but attendees must re-spond by the end of July 2013. For moreinformation, please visithttp://www.faa.gov/go/toxmeeting.

tee for 4 years and was the CertificationBoard Chair from 2010-2011. He currentlyserves on the Scientific Program Committee.He has been author or co-author on sevenpapers, four of which were published inAviation, Space, and EnvironmentalMedicine.

Hughes Is Leader of IAMFSP

Lt. Col. Kathryn G. Hughes, USAF, MC,is the new President of the InternationalAssociation of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots.She is currently the Commander of the 412thAerospace Medicine Squadron, Edwards

AFB, CA. Sheearned her commis-sion from the U.S.Air Force Academyin 1988 with aBachelor of Sciencedegree in Biology.After graduationfrom undergradu-ate pilot training atLaughlin AFB inDel Rio, TX, in 1989she became a T-38Instructor Pilot and

Standardization/Evaluation Pilot, first atLaughlin AFB, then as part of theAccelerated Copilot Enrichment program atOffutt AFB. In 1993 she attended KC-135Aircraft Commander training and flew theRC-135, providing strategic electronic recon-naissance on missions around the world. Shethen earned her Medical Degree at theUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center,where she served as Class President for 4years. She completed an intern year inGeneral Surgery before being stationed as aflight surgeon at Mountain Home AFB, ID.Kathy was OIC of the Physical Exam section,Team Chief for the hospital’s InitialResponse Team, and was responsible fortraining and qualifying the flight surgeonsand flight medicine clinic to perform FAAphysical exams. While serving at the IdahoAir National Guard in Boise, she was se-lected as the Air Combat Command FlightSurgeon of the Year for 2001.

In 2002 Lt. Col. Hughes entered theUSAF’s Pilot-Physician Program and was se-lected to serve in the unique role of A-10pilot-physician on an active duty tour withthe Idaho ANG. She also served as medicalliaison to the Air Expeditionary ForceBattlelab and saw clinic duty at both at theGuard base in Boise and the flight medicineclinic at Mountain Home AFB. Based uponher previous successful assignments Kathynext was handpicked to serve as the SeniorMedical Officer/Pilot on exchange with theRoyal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicineat RAF Henlow, UK. There she flew theHawk aircraft in clinical and flight equip-ment trials, and trained future Typhoon pi-lots during pre-employment training, includ-ing the first two Saudi Typhoon pilots.During her time at RAF CAM, Kathy alsoworked in the flight medicine clinic at RAFLakenheath and in 2007 became only thethird USAF exchange officer to earn theDiploma in Aviation Medicine from KingsCollege, London. She then completed aMaster of Public Health Degree at the

University of Michigan in 2009, and servedan Aerospace Medicine Residency in 2010and a Residency in Occupational Medicine in2011 at Brooks City-Base, TX.

Lt. Col. Hughes is a command pilot andsenior flight surgeon with over 3,000 hoursand is one of the Air Force’s few pilot-physi-cians. She has flown the T-38, RC-135, A-10,and the Royal Air Force Hawk as seniormedical officer/pilot. Her awards includethe Meritorious Service Medal with oak leafcluster, the Air Force Commendation Medalwith oak leaf cluster, the National DefenseService Medal with bronze star, theHumanitarian Service Medal, the MilitaryOutstanding Volunteer Service Medal, andthe NATO Medal. She is a member of theRoyal Aeronautical Society, the InternationalAssociation of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots,Women Military Aviators, Order of theDaedalians, the 99s: InternationalOrganization of Women Pilots, theExperimental Aircraft Association, and theSociety of U.S. Air Force Flight Surgeons. Sheis a Fellow of the Aerospace MedicalAssociation and was a recipient of theirHarry G. Moseley Award in 2009.

Annicelli Heads LSBEB

Lt. Col. Lance Annicelli, USAF, is the in-coming President of the Life Sciences &Bioengineering Branch. He received his com-mission in the Naval Reserves before trans-

ferring to the AirForce in 1994. In hisfirst assignment heserved as FlightCommander,Diagnostic andTherapeuticServices for the 14thMedical Group,Columbus AirForce Base, MS. In1997, he transferredto MacDill Air

Force Base, FL, where he served as Chief,Laboratory Services for the 6th MedicalGroup. He was competitively selected fortraining as an Aerospace Physiologist in 1999and posted to his first assignment as FlightCommander, 14th Aerospace PhysiologicalTraining Flight, supporting pilot training atthe 14th Flying Training Wing, ColumbusAir Force Base. In 2001, he was chosen to at-tend graduate school, where he earned aMasters Degree in Exercise Physiology fromthe University of Nevada.

Lt. Col. Annicelli’s follow-on assignmentwas to the Air Force Research Laboratoryserving as Chief, Altitude and AccelerationOperations, where he provided critical over-sight for the Department of Defense’s onlyhigh altitude research and rapid onset cen-trifuge facilities. He was quickly identified tohead his own branch within the research lab-oratory and was given the leadership respon-sibility of Deputy Branch Chief,Counterproliferation. He was subsequentlytransferred to the Headquarters Air Force,Office of the Air Force Surgeon General,Bolling Air Force Base, where he held the po-sition of Associate Chief, Force ManagementDivision, from August 2005 throughSeptember 2007. In 2007, he was appointed

as his career field’s first Assistant Director ofOperations for the Air Force’s Aerospace andOperational Physiology Program and se-lected to lead the Air Force Medical Service’sResearch and Development’s Environmentaland Occupational Health Research Branch.Following his assignment in Washington,DC, he was posted to Randolph Air ForceBase as Flight Commander for the 12thAerospace and Operational PhysiologyTraining Flight, TX, where he was appointedas both the Aerospace Medicine DeputySquadron Commander and the MedicalGroup’s Biomedical Sciences CorpsExecutive. He is currently assigned as anExchange Officer with the Royal Air Force,Centre of Aviation Medicine, RAF Henlow,United Kingdom. In this capacity, Lt ColAnnicelli serves as Deputy Commander,Aircrew Equipment Integration Group.

Lt. Col. Annicelli is board certified inAerospace Physiology by the AerospaceMedical Association (AsMA) and is anAsMA Associate Fellow. He serves on theAerospace Physiology Certification Boardand the Scientific Program Committee. Hehas also served on the Council.

Parazynski Leads SMA

Scott E. Parazynski, M.D., is the incomingPresident of the Space Medicine Association(SMA). A graduate of Stanford University

and StanfordMedical School, hewent on to train atHarvard and inDenver in prepara-tion for a career inemergencymedicine andtrauma. He is also aphysiologist withexpertise in humanadaptation tostressful environ-ments. In 1992, he

was selected to join NASA's Astronaut Corpsand eventually flew five Space ShuttleMissions and conducted seven spacewalks(EVAs). In his 17 years as an Astronaut, heserved in numerous senior leadership roles,including EVA Branch Chief and the LeadAstronaut for Space Shuttle ThermalProtection System Inspection & Repair (inthe aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbiatragedy). Mission highlights include leadingthe first joint U.S.-Russian spacewalk duringSTS-86 while docked to the Russian spacestation Mir and serving as Senator JohnGlenn's crewmate and "personal physician"during STS-95.

In October 2007, Dr. Parazynski led theEVA team on STS-120, a highly complexspace station assembly flight, during whichhe performed four EVAs. The fourth andfinal EVA is regarded by many as one of themost challenging and dangerous ever per-formed. During the EVA he was positionedby a 90-foot robotic boom farther than anyorbiting astronaut had ever ventured fromthe safety of their airlock in order to repair afully energized solar array wing. Thetremendous coordinated effort in orbit andon the ground by Mission Control and otherengineering experts has been likened to the

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Space Shuttle and Space Station era's "Apollo13 moment." All told, Dr. Parazynski hasspent over 8 weeks in space with more than47 hours outside on spacewalks. He has trav-eled over 23 million miles in orbit.

Dr. Parazynski currently serves as ChiefMedical Officer of the UTMB Center forPolar Medical Operations, Galveston, TX,where he oversees the medical screening andhealthcare of all U.S. Antarctic program par-ticipants for the National ScienceFoundation. He serves on the Boards ofDirectors of several organizations and com-panies, as well as on the visiting or adjunctfaculty at several universities around theworld. He is a Fellow of the AerospaceMedical Association.

Dr. Parazynski has numerous publica-tions in the field of space physiology. He isthe recipient of a number of prestigiousawards, including: five NASA SpaceflightMedals, two NASA Distinguished ServiceMedals, two NASA Exceptional ServiceMedals, two Vladimir Komarov Diplomasfrom the Fédération AéronautiqueInternationale, two Flight AchievementAwards from the American AstronomicalAssociation, the Aviation Week LaureateAward, the Ellis Island Family HeritageAward, and a Gold Medal from theAmerican Institute of Polish Culture.Additionally, he a member of the ArkansasAviation Hall of Fame. His detailed NASAbiography can be found athttp://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.

Hilton Is Leader of SUSAFFS

Col. Alden D. Hilton, USAF, is the incom-ing President of the Society of U.S. Air ForceFlight Surgeons (SUSAFFS). He is the Chief

of the AerospaceMedicineOperations andPolicy Division,Head Quarters AirForce, Falls Church,VA. He leads 46personnel within 5branches to developand execute AF-wide AerospaceOperations strat-egy, programs,guidance, and over-

sight. He develops POM strategy for medicalpersonnel, directing the planning and pro-gramming for the Air Force Medical ServiceAerospace Operations panel. He is the advi-sor to AF Senior Leaders forBioenvironmental Engineering, PublicHealth, Flight and Operational Medicine,Aerospace and Operational Physiology,Personnel Reliability Program, DirectedEnergy, and Occupational Medicine.

Col. Hilton received his commission in1990 with a Health Professions Scholarshipto study medicine at the University of TexasMedical Branch in Galveston, TX. He re-ceived his M.D. in 1994 and completed atransitional internship at Scott AFB, IL. Hewas awarded flight surgeon wings in 1995and served as a Staff Physician, SquadronMedical Element, Flight Commander, andChief of Aerospace Medicine while stationedat Ellsworth AFB. He then received his

M.P.H. at the University of Houston andcompleted residencies in AerospaceMedicine and Preventive Medicine, servingas Chief Resident his last year at the USAFSchool of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks City-Base, TX. From Brooks he was assigned asthe Chief of Flight Medicine Branch at HQAir Combat Command, Langley AFB, VA.He next commanded the 51st AerospaceMedicine Squadron, 51st Fighter Wing, OsanAir Base, Republic of Korea.

Col. Hilton is board certified inAerospace and Preventive Medicine and is acertified Physician Executive. He is rated as aChief Flight Surgeon with 910 flight hours in27 aircraft, including 60 plus combat hours inAfghanistan. During his career, he served asDeputy Surgeon for Joint Interagency TaskForce South (JIATF-S) in Panama, SouthAmerica; as senior medical officer for the 28AEG in Thumrait, Oman; and as senior med-ical officer while supporting DetaineeMovement Operation missions throughoutthe world. He is an Associate Fellow of theAerospace Medical Association. His awardsinclude the Korean Defense Service Medal,the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal,the National Defense Service Medal with onestar, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Awardwith one oak leaf cluster, the Air ForceAchievement Medal with one oak leaf clus-ter, and the Meritorious Service Medal withthree oak leaf clusters.

Dalitsch is New SUSNFSPresident

The incoming president of the Society ofU.S. Naval Flight Surgeons is CDR Walt W.“Lunar” Dalitsch III. He is presently serving

as the SeniorAerospaceMedicine Specialistat Naval BranchHealth ClinicCoronado locatedat Naval Air StationNorth Island, CA.He is dual board-certified inAerospace andOccupationalMedicine, and iscurrently the

Deputy Specialty Leader for AerospaceMedicine in the Navy.

A graduate of the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, he attended theUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine inChicago, graduating in 1993, and completeda surgical internship at Emanuel Hospitaland Health Center in Portland, OR. He thenworked as the day emergency room physi-cian at the Yukon-Kuskokwim DeltaRegional Hospital in Bethel, Alaska, and sub-sequently was designated a Naval FlightSurgeon in 1995. Commander Dalitsch grad-uated from the University of Kansas MedicalCenter with a Master in Public Health in2001 as part of his Residency in AerospaceMedicine, which was completed at the NavalOperational Medicine Institute in 2003.

He has been deployed to Sicily, PuertoRico, the Persian Gulf aboard the USSEnterprise, Okinawa, and the Philippines,

among other assignments. Following boardcertification, he was assigned as SeniorMedical Officer aboard the USS Dwight D.Eisenhower from 2003 to 2005 where he re-built the medical department and took theMighty IKE back to sea following its mid-lifeRefueling and Comprehensive Overhaul(RCOH).

From 2005 to 2008 CDR Dalitsch servedas Department Head of OccupationalMedicine at Naval Hospital Naples, Italy. Heserved from 2008 to 2011 as the CommandFlight Surgeon for the School of AviationSafety in Pensacola, FL where he trainedover 3000 Aviation Safety Officers, prospec-tive Commanding and Executive Officers,and Crew Resource Management Instructorswhile conducting extensive research intohuman performance, including the negativeeffects of fatigue, as well as the impact onperformance of nutritional supplements andenergy drinks. Prior to his present assign-ment he served as the Assistant ForceSurgeon for Commander, Naval Air Force,U.S. Pacific Fleet.

CDR Dalitsch has nearly 2000 flight hoursin 27 different military aircraft. He has pub-lished nearly 150 professional articles, over150 articles in the lay press, has given nearly100 presentations at professional conferencesand other settings. He is an FAA-designatedAviation Medical Examiner, an AdjunctAssistant Professor at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University, is a certified FederalAviation Safety Officer, and has served as anInstructor in both Advanced Cardiac LifeSupport and Advanced Trauma LifeSupport.

His personal awards include the Navyand Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal(second award), Navy and Marine CorpsCommendation Medal (fourth award), JointService Achievement Medal, Navy andMarine Corps Achievement Medal, FleetMarine Force Service Ribbon, and theMilitary Outstanding Volunteer ServiceMedal, as well as multiple unit awards.

A Fellow of the Aerospace MedicalAssociation and Chair of the History andArchives Committee, he edits the column“This Month in Aerospace Medicine” for thejournal. He likes to play music and fly and“more than anything, he’d like to be in a tentor canoe in the wilderness for an indefiniteperiod of time with his family.”

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