Can we improve our health on Earth and beyond? Our health and medical professionals say “Yes!” NSS BioSpace is currently encouraging changes physically, mentally, and spiritually to maximize our health. Visit with our speakers who are simplifying major medical capabilities to travel into deep space, and finding the sources of good health. Find out how we are restoring our health for deep space flight, designing healthy spaces, and making a spacefaring civilization possible. See how we are educating citizens to maintain health for, during, and after space flight. Discover your role in the coming age of expansion and wealth of humanity!
BioSpace
Session Chair Info
William W. “Bill” Gardiner
Lab Director, Analytech Div. of Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc.
William W. “Bill” Gardiner is a professional environmental scientist (MSES, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University 1976) who operates Analytech, a Division of Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc outside of Atlanta continuously since 1981. He is a Licensed Water Analyst (LWA) registered in the State of Georgia. Bill has been a participating member since 1975 of the National Space Society and the predecessor L-5 Society, founded on the vision Read More
BioSpace
Session Speakers Info
Paula Hill-Collins
Vice President and Clinical Director, St. Mary's Health Wagon DBA Health Wagon
Dr. Paula Hill-Collins is a nurse practitioner, rural health leader, and internationally recognized advocate for health equity, serving as Vice President/Clinical Director of The Health Wagon, the nation’s oldest free mobile healthcare clinics. For over 20 years, she has advanced access to medical, dental, vision, and behavioral health services for underserved communities across Appalachia, reaching over 28,000 patient encounters annually. She leads innovative, nurse practitioner–driven models that bring care directly Read More
Holger Isenberg
Independent Researcher & Founder, areo.info
Holger Isenberg has a master’s degree equivalent in Computer Science from the Technical University Dortmund, Germany and has worked in systems operation and consultation around Java-based enterprise applications since 1999 in Germany and moved in 2016 to Silicon Valley, now solving customer problems at a company specialized on providing high performance Java platforms. As independent researcher he is applying software engineering skills on public data provided by spaceflight missions for Read More
Gerald Mclaughlin
Co-Manager, NSS Live in a Healthy Space Contest, NIH (Ret.)
Gerald has built an extensive career in academics, research, and science administration, serving at prestigious institutions including Berkeley, the University of Iowa, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Emory, the University of Illinois, and Purdue. His professional output is highlighted by seventy biomedical publications as well as significant experience managing grants and contracts, including work with the NIH. In addition to his academic work, he is deeply involved with the National Space Read More
Erik Seedhouse
Associate Professor Space Operations, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Erik Seedhouse is a professor in Spaceflight Operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He holds pilot, scuba, and sky-diving licenses and in his spare time works as an astronaut instructor for the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences, a film consultant to Hollywood, a professional speaker, triathlon coach, and author. He regularly ventures into the mountains and has reached the summits of Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Elbrus, Rainier, Island Peak, Denali, Kosciusko, and in Read More
Bill Tarver
Physician, NASA (Retired)
Bill retired from NASA after 20 years as a flight surgeon in 2026. He has worked directly with NASA and international partner astronauts/cosmonauts preparing and caring for them for long duration space missions on the ISS. He has worked in the commercial LEO development program, developed astronaut selection medical standards, been director of the JSC Medical Clinic as well as the JSC Flight Medicine Clinic. His specialty is space medicine Read More