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Episode 15: John Langell, MD, PHD, MPH - Surgeon and Executive Director for the Center for Medical Innovation

Dec 18, 2013

How does a physician almost become an astronaut? What is it like to train with NASA in Space Medicine? What is the Bench to Bedside Program here at the University of Utah School of Medicine? Surgeon and Executive Director for the Center for Medical Innovation, Dr. John Langell discusses his advanced training in Space and Aeronautical Medicine. Discover what one most go through to be found fit for duty in the space program including time spent in the infamous “vomit comet.” Listen as Dr. Langell talks about how the Bench to Bedside Program was created and what is being done to “come up with ideas that can be real solutions in the clinical settings and how to validate the need.”