MD, PhD, Chair Scholarship Committee

Francisco Rios Tejada, has 40 years of experience in Aerospace Medicine. He is specialist in Respiratory Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine.

He is currently consultant in Aerospace Medicine for the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (AESA), and retired Chief Medical Assessor of AESA.

He got retired fron the Spanish Military Medical Corp as Col. Med. Director of the Spanish Air Force Aeromedical Center, where he spent most of his military career. Former Associate Professor at Complutense and San Pablo CEU University of Madrid.

He is Past President of the Spanish Society of Aviation Medicine and Iberoamerican Association of Aerospace Medicine. Currently 1st Vice-President of ESAM, Fellow of AsMA 1997 and IAASM Academician from 1996.