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Professor Emeritus
UC-San Diego
UC-San Diego
La Jolla, California
Alan Hargens, PhD. is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, San Diego. I previously served as Chief of the Space Physiology Branch at NASA Ames Research Center. I have edited 11 books and published more than 340 peer-reviewed articles, 58 chapters, 40 NASA Reports, and 620 abstracts in general areas of comparative physiology, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal physiology, and orthopaedic surgery. I am the recipient of a NIH Research Career Development Award, Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopaedic Research Society, Recognition Award from the American Physiology Society, and two NASA Honor Awards. I have trained over 100 students, two of whom became NASA astronauts.
My recent awards include the Nello Pace Award for Outstanding Leadership and Contributions to the Field of Gravitational Physiology. a Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine, the Distinguished Public Service Metal, NASA’s highest award, the Nicolas Andry Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons (given for nearly a half-century of research and clinical progress in ompartment syndromes and intracompartmental pressure measurement.and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Founders Award, the highest honor given by the Society (given to a member of the Society for distinguished scientific contributions to and leadership in the field of gravitational research). Honorary Professor and Keynote Speaker at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
7:45 PM – 8:00 PM US CDT