Meet the Keynote Speakers

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  Michael R. Barratt, MD

  Board certified in Internal and Aerospace Medicine
  NASA astronaut on two spaceflights
  Serves in the Mission Support branches providing medical and human factors expertise to multiple spaceflight programs
  
  

  Dr. Barrett served as a project physician and flight surgeon. He worked extensively with Russian space medical counterparts at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City during the course of the US/Russian Shuttle Mir and developing International Space Station (ISS) programs. He served as lead crew surgeon for the first NASA/Mir flight and for several Space Shuttle flights and contributed to the development of the onboard medical system ISS. Dr. Barratt was selected into the NASA astronaut class of 2000.

  He served as an ISS flight engineer on Expeditions 19 and 20, flying as flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-14 vehicle and spending 199 days in orbit with Russian commander Gennady Padalka. Barratt performed two spacewalks in the Russian Orlan space suit. He flew as a crewmember of the STS-133 mission in 2011 and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Dr. Barratt continues to train as an active member of the astronaut corps and works heavily with the Commercial Crew and Artemis Programs in applying medical standards to new vehicle design and operations.

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  Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS

  Surgeon-in-Chief of the Riverside University Health System Medical Center
  Professor of Surgery at Loma Linda University School of Medicine
  Emeritus Professor University of California San Diego
  Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
  
  

  Dr. Raul Coimbra is the Surgeon-in-Chief of the Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Professor of Surgery at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Emeritus Professor University of California San Diego. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Previously, Dr. Coimbra was the Director of the UCSD Level-1, Trauma Center and the Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery for 2 decades. Dr. Coimbra played a significant role in strengthening San Diego’s first Level, Trauma Center into one of the top programs in the nation, as well as a model for trauma centers around the world. His participation in global health and international outreach is enormous.

  Dr. Coimbra is President of the Board of Directors for the World Coalition for Trauma Care, as well as a member of the Global Alliance for the Care of the Injured within the Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention of the World Health Organization. In addition, Dr. Coimbra is a past Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and past Chairman of the ACS International Injury Care Committee. He is also past President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, which is the premier trauma organization in the world. Dr. Coimbra has more than 630 scientific publications in most clinical and experimental aspects of Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care related research.