Peoria Emergency Medicine Resident Alum Part of NASA Mission
Credits: NASA/Bill Stafford
PHOTO: The crew will live and work in a 1,700 square foot, 3D-printed habitat located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The habitat includes four individual living quarters for the volunteer crew. INSET: Nathan Jones, MD
Nathan Jones, MD, who completed his Emergency Medicine residency at UICOMP/OSF Saint Francis in 2012, has been selected to participate in a NASA year-long mission. The study is the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), and it will simulate what crew members may experience in a mission to Mars.
Jones learned of the program through an advertisement and applied. He currently works as a physician at Springfield Memorial Hospital (Illinois).
You can see the news story by Springfield’s Channel 20 here.
Modified on June 13, 2023