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Fee Range: $10,001 to $15,000 (fee note) |
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 Biography: Dr. Jim Logan's interest in space began in 1957 when the former Soviet Union launched the first Sputnik. Encouraged by a librarian and an elementary school science teacher, he read everything he could find on space. His tenacity and youthful enthusiasm eventually convinced administrators at his hometown university (University of Tulsa) to grant him permission to take a college course in Astronomy in 1960 at age ten. Upon passing the course, he was invited to attend the First National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space (May 1961) where he met James Webb, NASA's first administrator, and the famous rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun. Seventeen years later, he was accepted into NASA's first residency program in Aerospace Medicine. Upon completing his residency and his Master's Degree, he was assigned to Johnson Space Center in Houston in July 1981 where he became a personal physician to the astronauts and their dependents. Promoted to Chief of Flight Medicine in 1982 and Chief of Medical Operations in 1984, he was Mission Control Surgeon, Deputy Crew Surgeon or Crew Surgeon for the first twenty-five space shuttle missions. He was also Project Manager for the Space Station Medical Facility, developing the initial design for a telemedicine-based inflight medical delivery system for long duration missions. After a year at NASA Headquarters as the Liaison Officer between Headquarters Life Sciences Division and the Space Station Program Office, he left the space agency to serve as Provost for International Space University, Strasbourg, France. Upon returning to the USA, he consulted for The RAND Corporation and created Logan & Associates, Inc., an independent telemedicine consulting firm. Dr. Logan is a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association. He served as a telemedicine resource for a myriad of professional organizations and medical institutions ranging from small rural hospitals to large academic medical centers such as the prestigious New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in midtown Manhattan (the largest and oldest specialty hospital in North America). His consulting and lecturing activities have taken him to Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Iceland, Russia, Guam, South Korea and the People's Republic of China. In 1997-98, Dr. Logan served as the Telemedicine Clinical Director for the DOD's Pacific Regional Program Office at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. Dr. Logan returned to the Johnson Space Center in January 1999 as a support contractor for the Manned Test Support Branch as medical officer for the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL), the underwater spacesuit astronaut training facility. In September 2000 he came full circle back to NASA and is currently the Chief of Medical Informatics and Health Care Systems for the Space and Life Sciences Directorate. Dr. Logan is a lifetime recipient of NASA's Distinguished Speaker Award and a Senior Associate for the Space Studies Institute, Princeton University. He has been featured on the Public Broadcast System (PBS) and CanadaAM and is co-authoring a new book, Telemedicine and the New Medical Paradigm. |
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Programs: All of Dr. Logan's speeches are accompanied by slides serving as visual aids to make even the most complicated concepts comprehensible for audiences of all ages. In Manifest Destiny For The 21st Century Much as mechanical engineering (e.g. internal combustion engine), telecommunications, medicine, and electronics molded the 20th century, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and space colonizations will synergistically conspire to illuminate a new 'Manifest Destiny' for our species in the 21st centruy. The decoding of the human genome is as significant to the future of mankind as was the discovery and domestication of fire. The solar system, far from being empty space, is laden with enough resources to lavishly support a massive celestial civilization for the next 4 billion years - - until the end of our sun's lifespan. If history repeats itself, the present is eerily similar to the 16th century, that is, after the discovery of the 'new world' but prior to its colonization. Far from being just an option for mankind, this new Manifest Destiny may literally be essential for the ultimate survival of Homo sapiens. Come visit the New Worlds your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will inhabit. Genetic Engineering: Ethics, Questions And More A lively interactive lecture on the far-reaching implications of genetic engineering, nanotechnology and biomedical engineering. Dr. Logan takes the audience into a deep discussion and demonstrates how where one stands on genetics engineering issues depends most on where one sits in America today. Genetic Engineering, Space Colonization And The Future of Mankind Is a comprehensive talk that explores the next steps for human survival in the universe. Dr. Logan explains how the decoding of the human genome is significant to the future of mankind survival as well as how our solar system is laden with enough resources to lavishly support civilization for the next four billion years. |
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