Dr David Powell is a specialist in occupational medicine based in New Zealand. His professional background is mostly in aviation, including as an Air Force flight surgeon, leading medical services for airlines, academic roles and also consulting for a variety of aviation organisations including ICAO (the International Civil Aviation Organisation).

Dr Powell was the Medical Advisor to the International Air Transport Association (IATA, the global body representing the world’s major airlines) from 2018-2023.

He has around 20 publications mostly in aerospace medicine and holds commercial aeroplane and helicopter licences.

Francisco Rios Tejada, has 40 years of experience in Aerospace Medicine. He is specialist in Respiratory Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine.

He is currently consultant in Aerospace Medicine for the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (AESA), and retired Chief Medical Assessor of AESA.

He got retired fron the Spanish Military Medical Corp as Col. Med. Director of the Spanish Air Force Aeromedical Center, where he spent most of his military career. Former Associate Professor at Complutense and San Pablo CEU University of Madrid.

He is Past President of the Spanish Society of Aviation Medicine and Iberoamerican Association of Aerospace Medicine. Currently 1st Vice-President of ESAM, Fellow of AsMA 1997 and IAASM Academician from 1996.

Jeff is the Secretary General of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine. He assumed his Secretary General role in October 2025 following 15 years as the Executive Director for the Aerospace Medical Association. Jeff retired from the US Air Force in 2006 following 34 years of service, retiring as a Colonel.  Jeff is board-certified in Aerospace Physiology (CAsP), is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (FAsMA), an Academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). 

During his US Air Force career, Jeff served as an Aerospace Physiologist and held a number of command and leadership positions until he retired from the Air Force as the Deputy Command Surgeon for the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH and as 14th Chief of the AF Biomedical Sciences Corps.

As Executive Director of the Aerospace Medical Association, Jeff served as the Chief Operating Officer of the 2,000 member Aerospace Medical Association that is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. It is the largest, most-representative professional membership organization in the fields of aerospace medicine and human performance.

As Secretary General of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, Jeff is responsible for the day to day operations of the Academy including keeping appropriate accounting records, maintenance of the Academy’s bank accounts into which all monies received by the Academy shall be deposited, and maintenance of the Register of Members.

Dr. Crowley is the Science Program Director at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, a subordinate laboratory of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command.  He received his MD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.  Dr. Crowley is a 1988 graduate of the USAF aerospace medicine residency program and retired from the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 2004 as a Master Flight Surgeon and Colonel.

Dr. Crowley has authored over 80 scientific papers in the scientific and technical literature (35 as first author) covering a wide variety of applied aerospace medicine topics. He is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association.  From 2003-2010, Dr. Crowley was the Vice-Chair for Aerospace Medicine for the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and from 2014 to 2021 he chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine.  He currently serves as the aerospace medicine member of the FAA’s Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee.

Dr David Powell is a specialist in occupational medicine based in New Zealand. His professional background is mostly in aviation, including as an Air Force flight surgeon, leading medical services for airlines, academic roles and also consulting for a variety of aviation organisations including ICAO (the International Civil Aviation Organisation).

Dr Powell was the Medical Advisor to the International Air Transport Association (IATA, the global body representing the world’s major airlines) from 2018-2023.

He has around 20 publications mostly in aerospace medicine and holds commercial aeroplane and helicopter licences.

BMBS, MPH, MA, Dip AvMed, FRACMA, FACAsM, FAsMA, FCDSS, FACHSM (Hon)

Professor Smart is a veteran, medical doctor, health leader, aerospace medicine specialist, and retired Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) senior officer. She is currently Professor, Military and Aerospace Medicine at the Australian National University (ANU), Interim Director of the ANU Defence Institute, and a Mission Specialist at the ANU Institute for Space. She served as the University’s COVID-19 Public Health Lead from 2020 to 2022.

Prof Smart’s 35-year RAAF career included several operational deployments, and leadership and command positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of Defence. She was twice Commanding Officer of the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine and undertook exchange tours with the Royal Air Force (UK) and the United States Air Force. Her career culminated at the two-star level in the dual roles of Surgeon General of the ADF and Commander Joint Health. She transferred to the RAAF Specialist Reserve in early 2020.

Apart from her ANU roles, Prof Smart is a non-executive Director of Goodwin Aged Care Services and the International Academy of Air and Space Medicine (IAASM); Chair of the ANZAC Research Institute Advisory Council and the Australian Football League Mental Health Steering Group; and a member of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal. She is also an Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the University of Melbourne, a frequent keynote speaker, and undertakes various consulting and advisory roles in aerospace medicine and military and veterans’ health.

Prof Smart is an Academician of IAASM, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medicine Association, a Founding Fellow (and former President) of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, and a former Vice President of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

Dr. Vincent Feuillie, Medical Advisor at Air France, joined the airline in 1998 after spending over ten years in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He maintains a keen interest in these fields as well as in communication aspects of travel medicine.

He holds certifications in aviation medicine and occupational medicine, is an Aeromedical Examiner (AME) certified by EASA and the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) and is an aviation medical examiner for Transport Canada.

He is a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group and a past president of the French-speaking Aerospace Medicine Society (SOFRAMAS), the International Airline Medical Association (IAMA), and the European Society of Aerospace Medicine (ESAM); he also serves on the DGAC medical board. He teaches aviation medicine for the ESAM Academy and at universities in France, including Paris-Sorbonne, Paris-Descartes, Angers, Nancy, and Aix-en-Provence.

Dr. Punita Masrani is the Founder & COO of V M Medical Centre - Mirra’s Aeromedical Centre in Mumbai.

She chose to specialise in Aerospace Medicine as a civilian doctor because of her passion for safety, wellbeing and holistic health.

25 years into it, she’s an experienced Class 1 Aviation Medical Examiner designated by Transport Canada, FAA, EASA, CASA, CAANZ, SACAA, UAE GCAA and DGCA India. She is a certified Medical Review Officer by AMROA Australia and AAMRO USA. She trained in HFACS at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and has done the ICAO USOAP CMA Training in Phase 1 and Phase 2 in Personnel Licensing and Training.

She is an Academician and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine. She participates in various ICAO working groups; is an AsMA Fellow and regional Vice Chair of the G-LOC Committee. She on the Executive Committee of Aeronautical Society of India, and Fellow of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

Dr. Snyder has over 40 years experience in Aerospace Medicine and 50 years as a pilot and flight instructor.  He is currently the Aeromedical Advisor to the Air Line Pilots Assn International ALPA-I) and former Manager of the FAA / ALPA HIMS Program. He retired from the US Air Force after 29 years of service and since 1994 has advised ALPA-I on numerous aeromedical and aviation safety issues.

Holding board certifications in Aerospace, Addiction, Occupational and Family Medicine, Dr. Snyder has been a member of several FAA Aviation Rule Making Committees on pilot mental health and is the Chair of the AsMA Mental Health Working Group. He serves as medical advisor to the National Business Aviation Association Safety Committee and the Flight Safety Foundation’s Business Advisory Council. He is President of the International Peer Assist Aviation Coalition.

Having flown over 50 types of aircraft and still actively instructing and serving as an FAA Designated  Pilot examiner, Dr. Snyder was presented the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award in 2024.  He has been an Academician since 2002.

Patrice GUILLEMAUTOT, has 30 years of experience in Aerospace Medicine. He is specialist in Aéronautic and Space Medicine, MEDEVAC and Intensive Care in Air Transport Medicine. He wrote his Thesis on the French Astronauts’ selection process.

He is currently Medical Assessor for the French Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Directorat (DGAC/DSAC), Member of the Task Force «What challenges for France in the field of suborbital flights?» within the “COSPACE and RTN-HAO“ . He is French representative of the Medical, Technical Bodies (MED TeB) of EASA in charge of revision / standardisation of the medical regulation on civil aviation.

He used to be Regulator and Conveyor physician for Mondial Assistance France.

He is Elected member of the board of directors of the French-speaking Society for Aeronautic and Space Medicine (SOFRAMAS) Member of the medical committee of the “Aéro-Club de France”, Member of the space medicine group (SMG) of ESAM, Fellow of AsMA and IAASM Academician.

Colonel Barson is a board-certified Aerospace Medicine Physician with over 40 years’ experience in Aerospace and Preventive Medicine. His 22 years in the U.S. Army include creating the medical support program for the fielding of the AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter and research at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory where he developed a test concept project to use airbags in the AH-1 and AH-64 Attack Helicopters.

He was a Research Exchange Officer at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine and was coinventor of a one size fits all helmet system, and safety officer/test subject for testing counterpressure breathing gear for rapid decompressions to 60,000 feet. He has served as U.S. Corps of Cadets Surgeon at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

In 1998 he was the Chief of Preventive Medicine and Senior Physician with the U.S. Support Group in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His final assignment was as the Forces Command Chief of Preventive Medicine for 730,000 U.S. Army soldiers.

Following retirement from the Army he took a position with the Centers for Disease Control in the Division of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response working the SARS, Monkeypox, and Eczema Vaccinatum responses. His next position was Deputy Regional Flight Surgeon for the FAA Southern Region covering 169,000 airmen and 4,500 FAA Air Traffic Control Specialists. Since retiring from the FAA, he does consulting for pilot medical disability insurance companies, airlines, and the FAA.

He is also involved with the Society for Science as a Grand Award Judge for the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and as a Reviewer for the Science Talent Search and a member of the AsMA Scientific Program Committee.