Dr. Jonathan Clark Biography

A six-time Space Shuttle crew surgeon who served in top roles at Johnson Space Center Jon is currently an assistant professor of Neurology and Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and teaches operational space medicine at BCM's Center for Space Medicine. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and serves as space medicine advisor for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) at Baylor College of Medicine as well as chief medical officer for Excalibur Almaz an orbital commercial space company. Jon's particular focus is neurologic effects caused by extreme environments and crew survival in space which is why he was keen to take on the duties of Red Bull Stratos medical director.
Jon's service as Space Shuttle crew surgeon was part of an eight-year tenure at NASA where he was also chief of the Medical Operations Branch and an FAA senior aviation medical examiner for the NASA JSC Flight Medicine Clinic. He additionally served as a Department of Defense Space Shuttle Support flight surgeon covering two shuttle flights.
Prior to joining NASA Jon devoted 26 years to active service with the U.S. Navy during which he headed the Spatial Orientation Systems Department at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola; the Aeromedical Department at the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One in Yuma Arizona; and the Neurology Division and Hyperbaric Medicine at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. He qualified as a Naval flight officer Naval flight surgeon Navy diver and Special Forces freefall parachutist.

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