IAASM
Dr David Gradwell - Chair / Past-President
Professor David Gradwell is the immediate Past-President of the International Academy of Aviation & Space Medicine. He is also a Past President of the Aerospace Medical Association, the first British physician to have held both posts.
David served as a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force and there held appointments as the Consultant Adviser in Aviation Medicine and Whittingham Professor of Aviation Medicine. After almost 30 years in the RAF he retired from the service to take up the post of Professor of Aerospace Medicine at King’s College London where, among other activities, he directed the Diploma in Aviation Medicine course for UK and international doctors as well as establishing a specialist NHS aeromedical clinic at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
David initiated the establishment of the national training programme for future UK specialists in Aviation & Space Medicine, under the direction of the UK General Medical Council. He is the senior editor of Ernsting’s Aviation & Space Medicine, the UK’s standard aeromedical textbook, now in its sixth edition, and is the Emeritus Professor Aerospace Medicine at King’s.
Dr Melchor Antunano, M.D., M.S., FAsMA, FAsHFA
Dr. Antuñano was born in Mexico City and is a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico School of Medicine. He completed the Residency in Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He was a post-doctoral researcher with the U.S. National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. He is the Director of the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) in Oklahoma City. He is credited with 930 professional presentations at national and international conferences in aerospace medicine in 41 countries, and with 65 scientific publications.
He is Past-President of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, the U.S. Aerospace Medical Association, the U.S. Space Medicine Association, and the Iberoamerican Association of Aerospace Medicine.
He is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and the Aerospace Human Factors Association. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is Honorary Member of the Austrian, Brazilian, Colombian, Greek, Mexican, Peruvian, Slovanian and Turkish Societies of Aviation/Aerospace Medicine.
He is a faculty member at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and the National University of Colombia School of Medicine. He has received 85 awards and recognitions for his academic, administrative, and research achievements. He has experience as private pilot, parachutist and scuba diver.
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