Richard M. Satava

During his 23 years of military surgery, Richard Satava has been an active flight surgeon, an Army astronaut candidate, MASH surgeon for the Grenada Invasion, and a hospital commander during Desert Storm, all the while continuing clinical surgical practice.

Richard has been continuously active in surgical education and surgical research, with more than 200 publications and book chapters in diverse areas of advanced surgical technology, including Surgery in the Space Environment, Video and 3-D Imaging, Telepresence Surgery, Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation, and Objective Assessment of Surgical Competence and Training. While striving to practice the complete discipline of surgery, he is pursuing the leading edge of advanced technologies to formulate the architecture for the next generation of medicine.

Richard is Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center, and Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and Material Command in Ft. Detrick. Richard is currently a member of the Emerging Technologies and Resident Education, and Informatics committees of the American College of Surgeons, and is on the Board of Governors of the National Board of Medical Examiners.