Bioastronautics Symposium: Space for All – Opening Spaceflight to People with Disabilities

Description

Mark Shelhamer, director of the Johns Hopkins Human Spaceflight Lab, will introduce and moderate "Space for All – Opening Spaceflight to People with Disabilities," the fifth in a series of mini symposia presented by Hopkins at Home and Bioastronautics @ Hopkins.

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This session will focus on making space travel inclusive for people with disabilities and features:

• Sheyna Gifford, resident physician in Rehabilitation medicine at Washington University, St. Louis
• Sarah Hasnain, Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Excavation and Construction (LSIC – E&C) Focus Group co-facilitator (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
• Bonnielin Swenor, director of the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center

Mallika Sarma, National Institutes of Health trainee and postdoctoral research fellow in the Human Spaceflight Lab at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will moderate a live Q&A session following the panel discussion.