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70th International Astronautical Congress

Oct 25-30th 2019

Attended the largest IAC to date where I presented two papers: One on making deep space accessible to the commercial sector, and the other on recommendations for preflight suborbital medical selection.

See abstract 1 here
See abstract 2 here
see what the IAC had to offer this year

Start of Medical Studies at University of Toronto

Aug 19th 2019

Started the lifelong journey to become a doctor here at my dream school of Toronto. Stay tuned to see how I integrate my space interests into the program.

More about the Medical program at UofT

Jul 15th 2019

Human Performance in Space Teaching Associate

Spent the summer of 2019 working under NASA chief of innovation, Omar Hatamaleh and former Lead Flight surgeon, Volker Damann as a Human Performance teaching associate for the Summer Space Studies Program
Check out this awesome program

June 25th 2019

Student Aerospace Challenge Suborbital Project

Presented the work of our team, Operation Rising Dawn consisting of engineers and doctors around the world. We tackled the problem of defining what medical selection will look like for the everyday suborbital flight passenger.
More info about the 2019 challenge

Dec 20th 2018

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Assisting with Astronaut Return

Helped the medical operations team at the European Astronaut Center with the return of Alexander Gerst to earth. Alexander now spends two weeks in quarantine in the envihab beginning his recovery
See Alex's return to the astronaut center
See Alex's space mission highlights

Dec 17th 2018

ARD-alpha Television recording

Demonstrated pre-flight astronaut medical training for German Television station ARD-alpha at the European Astronaut Centre. The episode was aired January 2019.
See recent ARD-alpha episodes

Dec 8th 2018

DLR Human Physiology Workshop

Attended the 3rd German Human Physiology Workshop at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne. This Workshop featured the latest findings in human physiological research and space research performed on site.
More info on the workshop

Dec 3rd 2018

International Space University Graduation

On this day I graduated from the International Space University with the Cum Laude designation (awarded to only 4 students in the class). This was the culmination of a difficult year venturing into unfamiliar, engineering, space law and management fields, but it was but worth every bit of struggle!
More info on the ISU masters program

Nov 14th 2018

ESA Space Physician Training Course

The European Astronaut Center forsees many educational activities in the future. i had the pleasure of participating in the first space physician training course with individuals around the world, and guest lectures from flight surgeons, and biomedical engineers.
More info on the course

Oct 1st 2018

2018 International Astronautical Congress

I was fortunate to attend the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany where i gave a talk for my ISU team project newSTARTS, and connected with various space medicine professionals. Got to make connections with international aerospace companies, and government agencies. Was fortunate to witness a live change of command on the ISS.
IAC is in Washington in 2019

Sep 27th 2018

SGAC YoungESA Award

I was awarded the Young-ESA diversity scholarship by the Space Generation Advisory Council. This is a full scholarship to attend the Space Generation Congress, and the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany.
More info on the award

Jul 18th 2019

McMaster University Article

My undergraduate University, McMaster wrote an article about my journey into Space Medicine from my young student days!
Read the article

Jun 18th 2018

DLR Spin Your Thesis Study

Was fortunate to participate in this human centrifuge study joint collaboration between DLR and ESA. i was testing one of my cardiovascular devices in hypergravity.
More info on SpinYourThesis

Jun 6th 2018

Started Internship at European Astronaut Center

Began this internship at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, where I am supporting the Space Medicine Office, and working on designing new devices for non-invasively monitoring cardiovascular conditioning in space.
Read my article discussing my impressions of the EAC

May 17th 2018

newSTARTS Team Presentation

Created and executed team presentation for team project that I Control Managed. We presented to industry and government experts, and live streamed the presentation on Youtube.
See team newSTARTS executive summary

May 15th 2018

ISU Final Individual Thesis Presentation

Presented my individual project on cardiovascular deconditioning in long duration space-flight, and methods to monitor cardiovascular conditioning in astronauts.
Access my IP report

May 26th 2018

ISU Astrobiology Elective

Participated in this elective where featuring guest lecturers from prominent astrobiologists like Chris McKay, and took a visit to the Hoffman nobel prize winning lab in Strasbourg France.
More on this elective course
See my astrobiology executive report

May 9th 2018

Life Support Systems Elective

Participated in this LSS elective featuring guest lectures from the German Space Agency, and UNI stuttgart. We designed Life Support Sytems using simulations on the ELISSA database. I am currently designing a phone game that applies the LSS principles from this elective.
More on this elective course

Mar 9th 2018

Professional Visit to ESOC

Along with MSS2018, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) In Darmstadt Germany. Here I saw ESA's Satellite Navigation Support Office, and Space Debris Reference Facility.

Feb 2018

Ron Fanfair Article

I am featured in article by Ethnic Canadian writer Ron Fanfair and featured on ShareNews about my journey into Space Medicine.
Read the article

Dec 15th 2017

Telecomms Sector Literature Review Presentation

Presented ISU team project on Integrated Systems of Telecommunications. I discussed current telecomms infrastructure and the health benefits of Space-based telecommunications.
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Nov 20th and 21st

ISU Moon Village Workshop

Attended the ISU Moon Village Workshop, where I had the opportunity to engage in discussions on the themes of robotic and human settlement on the moon. The Workshop was concluded with a message from the second person to land on the moon - Buzz Aldrin.
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Oct 4th 2017

ISU Space Medicine Workshop

I had the pleasure participating in the ISU space medicine workshop where we performed ultrasound techniques. I afterwards met ESA Space Surgeon Sergi Vaquer (middle) where we discussed space medicine topics with Dr. Volker Damann (right).
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Sept 20th 2017

1st Place Rocket Launch Competition

My team "Soyuz Think you can Dance" Placed 1st in the Annual International Space University rocket launch competition after designing a rocket to fly 100 m safely returning a vial of vodka and a quail egg payload.

Sept 6th 2017

Kwasi Begins Masters of Space Studies

Began my 1.5 year journey at the International Space University in Strasbourg France pursuing a Masters in Space Studies .
More info on ISU

June 4th 2017

Rising Stars Award

Awarded the Rising Stars Award from the Dream Never Dies Foundation in in Memory of Lloyd Christopher Skeen. Award is given for student excellence in an Aviation related field.
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