Jim Logan is a physician with fifteen years experience at NASA where he held numerous positions including Chief of Flight Medicine, Chief of Medical Operations and Chief of Medical Informatics & Health Care Systems at Johnson Space Center. He served as a Mission Control Surgeon, Crew Surgeon or Deputy Crew Surgeon for twenty-five space shuttle missions. A former Provost of International Space University and a co-founder of the American Telemedicine Association, he has served as a consultant for the RAND Corporation as well as a subject matter expert for all aspects of human space flight.

His consulting and lecturing activities have taken him to Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Iceland, Russia, Argentina, Guam, South Korea, and the Peoples Republic of China.

Dr. Logan is a lifetime recipient of NASA’s Distinguished Speaker Award and a Senior Associate for the Space Studies Institute, Princeton University. He has been featured on the Public Broadcast System (PBS) and CanadaAM.

He considers himself a recovering NASA advocate.

Show full bio

Hide full bio