Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., M.S.

 
 
Residency Position:
Director
Office of Preventive Medicine Residencies

Address:
University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Boulevard
Maurice Ewing Hall
Galveston, TX 77555-1150

Education including dates of residencies, etc.:
1976              B.S.            Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1980              M.D.          University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
1980-1982    Residency    Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA
1982-1984    Residency    Aerospace Medicine,  Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1983              M.S.           Aerospace Medicine, Wright State U., Dayton, OH

Board Certification:
 American Board of Preventive Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, February, 1987
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1981
 
Licensure:
California
Texas
Ohio (inactive)
 
Significant Professional appointments and activities:
 09/2002–present    Director, Space and Life Sciences Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston
                                  TX (on assignment from UTMB)
07/2001-present     Deputy Associate Administrator for Crew Health and Safety, NASA, Washington, DC
                                  (on assignment from UTMB)    
02/1995–present    Professor (promoted 9/1/2000) of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Family
                                  Medicine, and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
08/1991–12/1994   Corporate Medical Director, American Airlines, Inc., Dallas, TX
05/1987–07/1991   Chief, Medical Operations Branch, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 
05/1986–05/1987   Chief, Flight Medicine Clinic, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
09/1984–05/1986   Flight Surgeon, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
 
A brief statement regarding the faculty member's responsibilities:
Overall coordination and administration of the Preventive Medicine Residency Programs. Assurance of a compliance to program requirements. Gives lecture on aerospace and preventive medicine. Clinical instructor and lecturer in Aerospace, Preventive and Occupational Medicine topics. Areas of interest include aeromedical certification and medical standards, crew fatigue and countermeasures, space motion sickness and treatment.
Publications:
Davis, JR. The Future of Preventive Medicine. American Occupational Health Conference; American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine annual meeting. 2001. 
 
Jamieson, AO, Zammit, GK, Rosenberg, RS, Davis, JR, Walsh, JK.  “Zolpidem reduces the sleep disturbance of jet lag”.  Sleep Med. 2001 Sep:2(5):423-30
 
Davis, JR. "Medical Guidelines for Flight". In: Passenger Medical Guidelines for Flight. Russ Rayman. M.D. editor. Aviation Space Environmental Medicine, special supplement. Fall 2002. In Press
 
King, R.P., Davis, J.R.  “Community noise:  Health effects and management”.  International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2003; 206 (2):123-131.
 
Davis, JR.  “In-flight Medical Care”.  In:  Medical Guidelines for Airline Travel. Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine.  2003; 74(5) section II, Supplement.
 
Books
 
DeHart, R.L., Davis, J.R. editors.  Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine, third edition.  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, May 2002
           
Book Chapters
 
Davis, J.R., Nicogossian, A.E.  Biomedical Training of Space Crews.  In: Space Physiology and Medicine, Second Edition.  Chapter 16, pp 273-283.  Lea and Febiger, 1989.
 
Davis, J.R. and Boyce, J.B., "Hyperbaric Medicine During Space Flight," Man in the Sea, Volume II, Chapter 6, pp. 105-116, Best Publishing Company, San Pedro, California, 1990.
 
Davis, J.R.  Aerospace Medicine.  In:  Viegas, SF, Dunn, KM, eds.      Telemedicine - Practicing in the Information Age. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1998: 77-82
 
Presentations:
“New Preventive Medicine Program Requirements”.  ACGME meeting of field staff. January 3, 2001.  Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Aerospace Medicine in Space Flight Operations”.  USAF International Physicians Training Course.  February 5, 2001.  Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas.
 
“History of Medical Operations for Space Flight”.  Current Concepts in Aerospace Medicine.  February 16, 2001.  UTMB, Galveston, Texas.
 
“Preventive Medicine Residency Program Requirements – Updates”.  Residency Directors Workshop.  February 21, 2001.  American College of Preventive Medicine meeting, Miami, Florida.
 
“Bridging the Gap between Aerospace and Occupational Medicine”.  NASA Occupational Health Conference.  March 1, 2001.  Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas.
 
“Accreditation:  The Basics, Internal Program Reviews”.  Mastering the Accreditation Process, Workshop.  March 8, 2001.  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  Chicago, Illinois. 
 
“Meeting with the Chairs: Helpful Hints and Areas of Citations”.  Mastering the Accreditation Process, Workshop.  March 8, 2001.  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Maintenance of Certification – the role of Specialty Societies”.  ABMS Workshop, March 23, 2001.  American Board of Medical Specialties.  Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Updates in Health and Productivity”.  UTMB Corporate Health Consortium spring meeting.  April 11, 2001, Galveston, Texas.
 
“Business and Medicine – the UTMB Corporate Health Consortium”.   Graduate Business Network, University of Texas at Austin.  April 18, 2001, Houston, Texas.
 
“The Future of Preventive Medicine”.  American Occupational Health Conference; American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine annual meeting.  April 25, 2001.  San Francisco, California.
 
“A Brief History of Aerospace Medicine”.  High school teachers conference sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.  June 22, 2001.  UTMB, Galveston, Texas.
 
“Crew Health and Safety Issues”.  Institute of Medicine panel on Aerospace Medicine and Medicine of Extreme Environments.  January 31, 2002, Washington, DC.
 
“Crew Health and Safety Issues for the International Space Station”.  Current Practices in Aerospace Medicine.  February 14, 2002.  UTMB, Galveston, Texas.
 
“Updates from the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the Residency Review Committee”.  Residency Director’s Workshop sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine.  February 19, 2002.  San Antonio, Texas.
 
“Certification and Maintenance of Certification”.  American Board of Preventive Medicine Panel at Preventive Medicine 2002.  February 23, 2002.  San Antonio, Texas.
 
“Future of Space Life Sciences”.  Invited Keynote address, Space Medicine Branch, Aerospace Medical Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 9, 2002.
 
“Life Sciences on the International Space Station”.  High school science teachers sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute at UTMB.  Galveston, Texas, June 21, 2002.
 
“Future of Space Life Sciences”.  Space Medicine issues in military aerospace medicine conference.  Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.  September 20, 2002
 
“Future of Aviation and Space Medicine”.  Invited keynote address:  The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Aerospace Medicine.  Tsukuba Space Center.  Tokyo, Japan.  October 23, 2002.
 
“The Science of Human Space Exploration – the Next 10 Years for NASA Space and Life Sciences”.  Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds.  University of Texas Medical Branch.  January 28, 2003.
 
“Bioastronautics Strategy”.  National Space Biomedical Research Institute.  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.  March 27, 2003.
 
“Bioastronautics: Medical Operations and Research”.  NASA – Health and Human Services Collaboration Conference.  Washington, DC.  May 6, 2003.
 
“Careers in Preventive Medicine”.  Dartmouth Medical School Preventive Medicine Residency seminar series.  Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10, 2003.
 
“Stanford Perspectives on Space Flight”.  Panel discussion, Museum of Natural Science.  Houston, Texas, September 27, 2003.
 
“The Science of Human Space Exploration - International Space Station.  First Space Medicine Workshop – European Space Agency.  Cologne, Germany, October 22, 2003.
 
“Bioastronautics”.  National Space Biomedical Research Institute.  Del Lago, Texas.  January 12, 2004.
 
“Bioastronautics and Cell Science”.  Cell Science Workshop.  Palo Alto, California, February 26, 2004.
 
“Exploration”.  1st Danish Space Medicine Workshop.  Copenhagen, Denmark, March 26, 2004.
 
“Space Medicine and the ISS”.  1st Danish Space Medicine Workshop.  Copenhagen, Denmark, March 27, 2004.
 
“Exploration and Space Medicine”.  1st Danish Space Medicine Workshop.  Copenhagen, Denmark, March 29, 2004.
 
“Exploration Vision”.  Society of NASA Flight Surgeons.  Anchorage, Alaska, May 5, 2004.
 
“Exploration Science Opportunities”.  Galveston Academic Excellence Booster Club, 28th Annual Awards Program.  Galveston, Texas, May 11, 2004.
 
“History of Space Flight”.  Aberdeen and Paisley secondary schools, Scottish Enterprise Outreach Program.  Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland, June 14 and 18, 2004.
 
“Space Exploration”.  Aberdeen and Paisley elementary schools, Scottish Enterprise Outreach Program.  Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland, June 14 and 18, 2004.
 
“Astronauts and Flight Surgeons – Challenges Beyond Low Earth Orbit”.  Scottish Enterprise summer school, Glasgow, Scotland.  June 16, 2004.
 
“Human System Working Group”.  Institute of Medicine, Houston, Texas, November 18, 2004.
 
In Press:
Davis, JR, House, NG, Richard, EE.  Human System and Spiral Development.  Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1st Space Exploration Conference.  Orlando, Florida, January 31, 2005.