In 1979 Duhart Long embarked on a second residency, becoming only the second civilian to enter the Wright State University School of Medicine’s aerospace medicine program. Someone just dumped 50 letters on my desk, and they’re all from you.’” “A few days later,” Duhart Long recalls, “a man named Stanley Moler called me and said, ‘Apparently you want to go into space medicine. With no idea where the program was, she wrote letters of inquiry to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. One morning during her residency she awoke to a radio show about an aerospace medicine program somewhere in Ohio. Though the space race was well underway by the time Duhart Long finished her degree in biology and premedical studies at Northwestern, aerospace medicine was still in its pioneer days. She grew up in Cleveland, the daughter of an adult education teacher and a steelworker with a passion for planes and space travel. She is responsible for the occupational health of the center’s 15,000 employees.įrom an early age Duhart Long set her sights on the stars. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where she currently serves as chief medical officer. ![]() Since 1982 Duhart Long has worked in aerospace medicine at the John F. That ambition was not out of this world for the farsighted aerospace physician. Space Doctor Aerospace medicine pioneer Irene Duhart Long (WCAS73) leads NASA’s medical mission.Īs a child Irene Duhart Long (WCAS73) dreamed of setting up a clinic on the moon. The Bellwether of Television Talk in Chicago ![]() Space Doctor, Spring 2007, Northwestern Magazine
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