NASA taps Regional One doc to improve space travel safety for astronauts
Dr. Tony Alleman, a hyperbaric medicine expert from Regional One Health, has been tapped by NASA to join a team of doctors working to make space travel safer for astronauts.
The team’s first meeting is Tuesday, June 4, at Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas, where they’ll examine research and clinical data on decompression sickness in astronauts.
The only known cure for decompression sickness is hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and Alleman is one of the nation’s leading experts in the field.
As medical director for wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Regional One Health’s Wound Care Center at 890 Madison Ave., Alleman helps patients overcome wounds that have failed to respond to previous medical treatment.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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