Swee Weng has been active in the field of Aviation Medicine since 1994 when he joined the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) as an Aviation Medical Officer. He has assumed various duties in his military service including aviation physiology training, clinical aviation medicine, aeromedical evacuation, medical research and chemical-biological-radiological defense. He is also trained to be a CRM facilitator and has undergone basic airborne parachuting training. He served as an exchange officer to the US Air Force Research Laboratory, San Antonio, TX for a year in 2006 and eventually retired from RSAF as Lieutenant Colonel in 2009.
After retirement, he moved to the United States and has been serving as an Aerospace Physiologist and Aerospace Medicine Subject Matter Expert at Environmental Tectonics Corporation, based near Philadelphia, PA. He continues to be engaged in Aerospace Medicine as an aerospace physiology instructor, physiology training program developer and test pilot for physiology training devices and simulators.
As an active pilot, he holds a FAA Commercial Pilot License with Instrument Rating and a Certified Flight and Instrument Instructor License.
He has been an academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine since 2013 and life member of the Aerospace Medical Association since 1998 (Fellow in 2020).
Dr Brigitte GUIDEZ is specialist in aerospace medicine and occupational medicine.
After working as a GP and scientific consultant for 5 years, she became a medical expert for workplace accidents and injuries for the French Civil Aviation Authority.
She joined the medical teams at Air France in 1990 as occupational physician (in charge of Apprentice Training Centers, flight personnel, and ground maintenance personnel); she has been Coordinating Physician since 2002.
Her main fields of study and publications deal with shift work, asbestos hazard, airport air quality, chemical hazards related to aircraft paints, maintenance work in fuel tanks, and exposure to noise.
She is the former vice president of ICAM 2022 in Paris, Past President 2019/2020 of SOFRAMAS (Société Francophone de Médecine Aérospatiale — Francophone Society of Aerospace Medicine); IAASM academician (International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine); member of AsMA (Aerospace Medical Association); member of SFMT (Société Française de Médecine du Travail — French Society of Occupational Medicine).
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Ian graduated from the University of Dundee in 1997 and joined the Royal Air Force. He trained as a General Practitioner and Commanded the UKs Strategic Aeromedical Evacuation Control Centre during the busy period of combat casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Later he served with US Forces as the Coalition Validating Flight Surgeon at the Joint Patient Movements Requirements Center in the Combined Air and Space Operations Center Al Udeid. Ian is Flight Medical Officer and Consultant Occupational Medicine Physician.
Currently, he is the RAFs Consultant Advisor in Occupational Medicine and Whittingham Professor of Aerospace Medicine. He has active research interests in aircrew fatigue.