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Attention Members: If you are interested in becoming involved in any of the Standing Committees or in any of the Annual Meeting Committees, please contact the Chair of that committee. The e-mail link for each Chair is provided underneath the committee description.

For a complete description, please see the Bylaws (Adobe Acrobat Format).

Aerospace Human Factors Committee Air Transport Medicine Committee Aviation Safety Committee Awards Committee Bylaws Committee Communications Committee Corporate and Sustaining Membership Committee Education and Training Committee

Finance Committee History and Archives Committee International Activities Committee Membership Committee Nominating Committee Resolutions Committee Science and Technology Committee Annual Scientific Meeting Chairs

Aerospace Human Factors Committee

The field of aerospace human factors includes a multidisciplinary approach involving behavioral, biomedical, psychosocial, physiological, and engineering factors. This committee is responsible for performing studies, sponsoring panels and seminars, and preparing reports, resolutions, and recommendations concerned with improving human factors input in the concept, design, development, test, and evaluation and operational deployment of aerospace programs and systems.

Standing Committee Chair: Thomas Nesthus

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Air Transport Medicine Committee

This committee is responsible for performing studies and preparing reports, resolutions, and recommendations on biomedical aspects of air transport operations. Its efforts concentrate on the promotion of international health, safety, and care through the mechanism of collecting information, analyzing data, and recommending solutions leading to improving health and safety in air transport operations.

Standing Committee Chair: Nigel Dowdall

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Aviation Safety Committee

The goal of this committee is to improve the safety of aviation activities. The committee directs its efforts to identifying and resolving specific, important aviation safety issues, national or international in scope, which represent a significant threat to the health and safety of people involved in aviation activities, either as crewmembers or passengers, through educational and regulatory processes.

Standing Committee Chair: Charles DeJohn

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Awards Committee

The Awards Committee obtains and reviews nominations for the various awards and honorary citations presented by the Association and makes recommendations to the Council. The Chair of the Awards Committee is Dr. Dwight Holland. Standing Committee Chair: Dwight Holland

Award Nomination Form and instructions (MS Word document)

Past award winners

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Bylaws Committee

This committee is a fact-finding committee on matters pertaining to the Constitution and Bylaws. It studies proposed amendments to the Bylaws referred by the Council, and make its recommendations to the Association through the Council. These are then presented through specific channels to the membership for approval at the annual business meeting.

Standing Committee Chair: Michael Lischak

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Communications Committee

This committee oversees the communications program of AsMA including brochures, books, and electronic media.

Standing Committee Chair: Joseph Dervay

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Corporate and Sustaining Membership Committee

This committee is responsible for initiating programs and activities whose purposes and objectives are to increase and represent the interests of the corporate and sustaining members.

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Education and Training Committee

This committee promotes international aerospace medicine and allied disciplines through excellence in education and training conducted or cosponsored by the Association and consistent with the Association's objectives. It establishes procedures to ensure the dissemination of educational and training related information and materials to the membership; coordinate the Association's education and training needs with the Scientific Program Committee; and coordinate the Association's Continuing Medical Education (CME) role.

Standing Committee Chair: Eilis Boudreau

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Finance Committee

This committee updates and reviews the Association's financial balance sheets on an ongoing basis, provides an overview of the Association's financial position to the Council at its regular meetings, and brings forward or reviews potential new courses of financial action.

Standing Committee Chair: P. Glenn Merchant

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History and Archives Committee

This committee is responsible for acquiring, preserving, and maintaining those items of historical significance which represent and depict the achievements of the Association and its members. This responsibility is exercised through historical research, commemorative presentations, and fostering the preservation of library, archival, and museum collections.

Standing Committee Chair: Stanley Mohler

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International Activities Committee

This committee is responsible for initiation, coordination, and promotion of international scientific and technical meetings for the promotion of international cooperation and understanding in the field of aerospace medicine.

Standing Committee Chair: Gabor Hardicsay

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Membership Committee

This committee is responsible for initiating programs and activities whose purposes and objectives are to increase membership in the Association and to promote public relations. This committee acts in an advisory capacity to the Executive Committee and the Council in matters relating to the establishment of eligibility requirements for all classes of membership.

Standing Committee Chair: Thomas Burke

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Nominating Committee

The Nominating Committee is responsible for nominating the elected officers and elective members of Council. The committee is composed of past presidents and representatives from constituent organizations. The report of this committee is presented orally and in writing at the opening ceremonies of the annual meeting. The vote takes place at the business meeting.

Standing Committee Chair: John Hastings

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Resolutions Committee

This committee reviews and approves all resolutions and presents them to Council for its consideration and approval prior to presenting them to the membership for vote at the annual business meeting.

Standing Committee Chair: Joseph Dervay

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Science and Technology Committee

This committee is responsible for informing and educating the Association regarding interdisciplinary problems in the areas of systems analysis and technology utilization, as well as aeromedical, biomedical, and human factor requirements.

Standing Committee Chair: John Barson

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Annual Scientific Meeting Chairs

General Chair: Jeff Sventek, M.S.

Standing Committee Chair: John Crowley

Deputy Program Committee: Col. Peter Mapes, USAF, MC

Panels: Arleen Saenger, M.D.
Panels Co-Chair: Luis Moreno, M.D.

Posters: Lt.Col. Daniel Weaver, USAF, MC
Posters Co-Chair: Nicholas Webster, M.P.H.

Slides: TBA

Arrangements: Jan Stepanek, M.D., M.P.H.

Registration: Lt.Col. Daniel Weaver, USAF, MC

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