ConV2X Telehealth 2022 is pleased and proud to announce NASA Flight Surgeon, Major General (retired) and previous Mobilization Assistant to the Surgeon General of the Air Force, will be the Distinguished Keynote Speaker on October 11, at Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Dr. Schmid the first human to be “holoported” into space, visiting the International Space Station. This is the future of the design and development of true Web3 - and telehealth, telemedicine and medical training will create this dimension in medicine!
"It is a brand new way of human exploration where our human entity is able to travel off the planet," our physical body is not there, but our human entity absolutely is there," stated Dr. Schmid.
Dr. Josef Schmid is a Flight Surgeon at NASA and a Major General (retired) in the United States Air Force Reserves. His patients are the current and past Astronauts and their family members, and include an X-15 pilot, Shuttle, Space Station and Apollo Astronauts who have walked on the Moon. He became an aquanaut during a 12 day mission to NOAA’s undersea Aquarius habitat during NASA’s NEEMO 12.
Dr. Schmid has been a crew surgeon for shuttle missions STS-116, STS-120, STS-126 and for multiple long duration missions supporting the International Space Station including Soyuz launches and landing operations in Kazakhstan for expeditions 18, 24, 29, 39, 48, 56, and 63. He serves as the Lead for Medical Operations for the new Orion vehicle and Artemis Missions that will return humans to the Moon.
Dr. Schmid is the previous lead for Space Medicine Training, responsible for training medical students, other flight surgeons, astronaut crew medical officers and biomedical engineers, former Co-director for the Aerospace Medicine Residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He has led missions teaching life saving surgical skills in Nepal, Rwanda, Mexico, Romania, Bosnia and Sri Lanka
Meet the phenomenal NASA practicing telehealth physician in person at ConVerge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) Telehealth 2022, in Miami, FL, on October 11, 2022.
