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Biography
James S. Logan, MD, MS
Dr. Jim Logan completed his first college course in Astronomy at the age of ten. At age eleven he was invited to attend the First National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space where he met the famous rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun. Seventeen years later after completing medical school he was accepted into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s first Residency Training Program in Aerospace Medicine. Board certified in Aerospace Medicine, he became the first graduate of the residency program to be hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Dr. Logan has held numerous positions at NASA including Chief of Flight Medicine where he was the personal physician to the astronauts and their families; and Chief of Medical Operations supporting space shuttle and space station mission scenarios. Mission Control certified, he supported twenty-five space shuttle missions. He was also Project Manager for the Space Station Medical Facility, developing the initial design for a telemedicine-based in-flight medical delivery system for long duration missions. After working as the Liaison Officer between the Life Sciences Division and the Space Station Program Office at NASA Headquarters he served as Provost for International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
Upon returning to the United States, he consulted for The RAND Corporation and created Logan & Associates, Inc., an independent telemedicine consulting firm. A founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association, Dr. Logan has served as a telemedicine resource for a variety of professional organizations and medical institutions. Additionally, 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 is a nineteen-year NASA veteran and co-founder of Space Medicine Associates, a multidisciplinary space medicine and bioastronautics consulting organization dedicated to safely opening spaceflight to as many individuals as possible.
A recipient of NASA’s Distinguished Speakers Award, he has enlightened young as well as mature audiences the world over with engaging and meaningful presentations on topics as diverse as space colonization, optimal human performance, innovation, medical ethics and other scientific and philosophical issues destined to be integral to the 21st Century. His lecturing activities have taken him to Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Iceland, Russia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guam, South Korea, New Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China.
Dr. Logan has been featured on the Public Broadcast System (PBS), CanadaAM, The History Channel and numerous radio talk shows.