Erik Antonsen is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine with a co-appointment as an Associate Professor of Space Medicine at the Center for Space Medicine, both at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later his MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 2015 to 2018 he served as the Element Scientist for Exploration Medical Capabilities in NASA’s Human Research Program. From 2018 to 2021 he served as the Assistant Director for Risk Management for the Human Health and Performance Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center. He practices clinically at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, TX. Current research interests include space medicine, risk network analysis, AI in medicine, and space health systems design.
Rob Reynolds is a Consulting Research Scientist for Mortality Research & Consulting, Inc., currently serving as the Visiting Data Scientist for the Human Health and Performance Directorate (HHPD) at NASA Johnson Space Center, through the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at the Baylor College of Medicine. He has a background in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and is a Professionally Accredited Statistician® by the American Statistical Association. He has published extensively on the mortality of space explorers, including US astronauts, Soviet and Russian cosmonauts, and other international astronauts. He is a self-trained health data scientist interested in how advanced analytics and machine learning can be employed to support operational decision making for human health and performance in spaceflight.
Avalon Kabeel is an Epidemiologist for the Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) program supporting the Human Health and Performance Directorate (HHPD) at NASA Johnson Space Center. She holds an MPH degree from Cornell University where she focused on systems thinking and one health principles. She serves as the risk custodian epidemiologist for several Human System Risk Board (HSRB) human system risks. In this role she works with fellow risk custodians to understand and synthesize scientific and operational evidence in the context of spaceflight and identify and evaluate metrics for each risk to communicate the risk posture to the agency.