Pete Hodkinson

First UK specialty registrar and now Consultant in Aviation and Space Medicine. Joined the Aerospace Medicine team at KCL in 2019, previously based at the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine. Additional roles: -European Space Agency Medical Board. -Royal College of Physicians Aviation and Space Medicine Specialty Advisory Committee. - UK Space Life and Biomedical Sciences Committee. - Mentor to the RAeS Next Generation of Aerospace Medicine Group. -Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Aerospace Medicine Group Committee 2014-2022. Areas of practice: - Fitness to fly - Human performance - Life support and protection systems Practice roles: - Advice, guidance, policy work to manage risk in aviation and space operations - Clinical - Research / test and evaluation - Training and education for aircrew, doctors and others - STEM outreach Current interests: - Evidence based aerospace medicine - Expedition and wilderness medicine - Interaction between aerospace medicine and engineering - The role of the flight test doctor / physiologist and medical input to the flight test world - Medical and life support considerations for Gateway and Lunar operations, and helping to pave the way for human exploration of Mars Previous example projects: - Introduction of the new UK centrifuge (Information lead) - Medical advisor for CAA Report 1189 'UK Government Review of commercial spaceplane certification and operations.' - Oxygen delivery systems and altitude exposure guidance for high altitude helicopter aircrew, parachuting, gliding, paragliding and a parasending world altitude record attempt - UK Fast-Jet Life Support System Hazard Reviews - Aviation medical considerations for solo round the world flight - Physiological and biomechanics considerations for Mars exploration spacesuits