Beth Healey – Keynote Speaker

Emergency Medicine Doctor and Research MD at the Concordia station in the Antarctic

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Specialist Subjects

  • What will medicine be like in Space?
  • Life on 'White Mars'
  • Surviving extreme conditions
  • Adapting to new climates
  • Space and Antarctic Research

Language

  • English

Biography

Dr Beth Healey, is an Emergency Medicine doctor and has worked for several years in the NHS as well as a variety of international settings. Fluent in French, this has included providing pre-hospital medical care in the Swiss Alps.

As part of medical and logistical support teams she has worked in a number of extreme and remote environments including Svalbard, Siberia, Greenland and the North Pole.

As research MD for the European Space Agency (ESA) Dr Beth Healey overwintered in Antarctica at spaceflight analogue ‘Concordia’, otherwise know as ’White Mars’. There, she researched the effects of isolation and extreme environment on the physiology and psychology of the crew. During the winter due to the low temperatures (-80C) and long polar night (105 days without any sunlight) they were completely isolated even in case of emergency. This research has been used to help inform space agencies of the challenges future astronauts on long duration spaceflight missions may face as well as develop medical models required for such missions. She also participated on an overland traverse, driving a Caterpillar tractor 1,200 km across the Antarctic plateau.

Since returning from Antarctic, Dr Beth Healey has contributed to a Space and Global Health UN specialist interest group considering how we can use space derived technology to solve medical problems on earth including life support systems, telemedicine and remote diagnostics.

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