PhD MA MB BS DAvMed MRAeS FAsMA

Des has worked as a specialist in aviation medicine and Principal Investigator in the Aircrew Systems/Human Performance teams at QinetiQ since 2001. Together with 16 years as a Royal Air Force medical officer, he has over 36 years’ experience in the field of aerospace medicine. He provides support to a wide range of human research activities at QinetiQ, with particular interest in altitude and acceleration protection.

He has supervised over 1000 human altitude chamber exposures, including about 500 rapid decompressions, and over 10,000 human exposures to sustained high +Gz acceleration on man-carrying centrifuges. He spent 10 years investigating visual effects of hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) in dim light, completing a vision research PhD on this topic at City University London. Some of this work was recognised internationally with the 2010 Tuttle Award of the Aerospace Medical Association for original research making “the most significant contribution toward the solution of a challenging problem in aerospace medicine”.

More recently he has worked on the association between brain white matter changes and altitude exposure and is the UK technical representative on the NATO working group collaborating on this topic. He is also conducting research into biomarker responses to decompression stress. He was appointed on merit to QinetiQ Fellow (senior scientist) in 2014 and to Senior Fellow in 2019.

He has contributed to leading UK and US textbooks of aerospace medicine, on the topics of hypoxia, hyperventilation and decompression and is an examiner and lecturer for the Diploma in Aviation Medicine Course at King’s College London. He has been a member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine since 2016 and a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association.

MBBS (S’pore), MPH, MRCP (UK), DAvMed (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FAMS

Assoc Prof Gan Wee Hoe is Chief Executive Officer of Eastern General Hospital, a 1,000-bed acute general hospital in Singapore slated to open in 2029. 

As an active clinician, he practises Occupational Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and Aviation Medicine at the Changi General Hospital, Singapore. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore), Lee Kong Chien School of Medicine (National Technological University, Singapore), and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (National University of Singapore). 

Among Assoc Prof Gan’s additional public service roles include serving on the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore’s Medical Board, Singapore’s Ministry of Health CareShield Life Council, the Boards of several voluntary welfare organisations in Singapore, as well as being a Visiting Consultant to the Singapore Armed Forces. He is the Immediate Past President of the College of Public Health and Occupational Physicians under the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. 

Before joining the public healthcare sector, Assoc Prof Gan served in the Singapore Armed Forces, with his last appointments being Chief Air Force Medical Officer and Assistant Chief of Medical Corps.

M.B.B.S., M.D. (Aerospace Medicine), DAvMed, M.AeSI

Sasirajan is working with Royal Air Force of Oman since 2012 as ‘Aviation Medicine Specialist’ at an air base as well as an ‘Aeromedical Instructor” at Aviation Medicine Training Centre, Muscat. Earlier served at Apollo Hospitals (Chennai) which is a DGCA empanelled Class I medical centre as AME and ‘Authorized Immigration Panel Physician’ for USA, Australia and Canada.

He is the recipient of ‘Aviation Medicine Scholarship Award 2008’ from the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM) and ‘Presidents Gold Medal 2009’ from the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine. He is an ‘Associate fellow’ of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM), ‘Academician’ of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM). He is a ‘Associate Fellow’ of Aerospace Medical Association and member of the Aeronautical Society of India.

M.B;B.S, M.D. (Aerospace Medicine), FACAsM

Currently senior medical officer at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Australia. Earlier served in the Indian Air Force and at the Singapore Aeromedical Centre. A recent convert to peer support and nascent practitioner of salutogenic approach to health and well-being. Interests in aeromedical decision making and aerospace physiology and human factors training.

A Fellow of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine (ACAsM), the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) and the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM); an academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM); and, a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and the Australasian Medical Review Officers Association (AMROA).

BMBS, MPH, MA, Dip AvMed, FRACMA, FACAsM, FAsMA, FCDSS, FACHSM (Hon)

Professor Smart is a veteran, medical doctor, health leader, aerospace medicine specialist, and retired Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) senior officer. She is currently Professor, Military and Aerospace Medicine at the Australian National University (ANU), Interim Director of the ANU Defence Institute, and a Mission Specialist at the ANU Institute for Space. She served as the University’s COVID-19 Public Health Lead from 2020 to 2022.

Prof Smart’s 35-year RAAF career included several operational deployments, and leadership and command positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of Defence. She was twice Commanding Officer of the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine and undertook exchange tours with the Royal Air Force (UK) and the United States Air Force. Her career culminated at the two-star level in the dual roles of Surgeon General of the ADF and Commander Joint Health. She transferred to the RAAF Specialist Reserve in early 2020.

Apart from her ANU roles, Prof Smart is a non-executive Director of Goodwin Aged Care Services and the International Academy of Air and Space Medicine (IAASM); Chair of the ANZAC Research Institute Advisory Council and the Australian Football League Mental Health Steering Group; and a member of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal. She is also an Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the University of Melbourne, a frequent keynote speaker, and undertakes various consulting and advisory roles in aerospace medicine and military and veterans’ health.

Prof Smart is an Academician of IAASM, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medicine Association, a Founding Fellow (and former President) of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, and a former Vice President of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

Medical Doctor, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1969.
Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of the Mexican Army and Air Force, 1980.
Basic Course in Aviation Medicine, Department of Aviation Medicine, DC Mexico and International Civil Aviation Centre and ICAO, 1974.
Continuing Medical Education Seminar in Aviation Medicine, CAMI FAA, 1979 to 2025.
Postgraduate degree in Aerospace Medicine. Division of Higher Studies, UNAN Mexico, 2023.
Course in Flight Safety and Human Factors. Centre for Accident Research and Prevention (CENIPA). Brazilian Air Force, 2003.
Master’s Degree in Higher Education, University of the Americas, Panama.
Member of the Aerospace Medical Association (FASMA), FFASHFA, Member of the International Airlines Medical Association, Founding Member of the Ibero-American Association of Aerospace Medicine.
Medical Examiner for the FAA, Aviation Medicine Canada, Civil Aviation Authority of Panama.

M.D., DAvMed

A retired Royal Thai Air force flight surgeon after 25 years’ service and practiced civil aviation medicine as AME for FAA, Transport Canada and CAAT since 1990. Presently working as Director of Bangkok Civil Aeromedical Center in Thailand, Airline Medical Consultant, sick or invalid patients “fit for air transport” consultant for several hospitals and assisting Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand as Aviation Medical Assessor.

Dr. Roland Vermeiren has graduated from the Medieval University of Leuven, Belgium. He has specializations in many scientific and rule-making fields such as family, occupational, aviation, insurance and radiation protection medicine.

He has worked for 15 years as General Practitioner, 10 years as AME in the medical service of SABENA (former Belgian airline) and 27 years at EUROCONTROL where he was head of the Medical Service of EUROCONTROL and chair of the EUROCONTROL Medical Board.

He is also a cofounder and past president of ESAM, past president of AsMA, member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, member and past Vice Chair of the Inter-Institutional Medical Board of the European Institutions and Agencies, past chair of the Scientific Committee of this IMB, was member of the former JAA medical committee, and is representative of the aeromedical sector in the EASA SAB (Stakeholders Advisory Board), member of the EASA ATM Technical Committee, member of the EASA Medical Experts Group and chair or member of the EASA Rulemaking Groups of part MED aircrew, part MED ATCO, part MED ARA and ORA.

He's been as a presenter at many international aviation medicine congresses such as ECAM, ICASM, AsMA and others.