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Civil Aerospace Medical

Institute

Federal Laboratory Consortium

Thomas R. Chidester, Ph.D., Deputy Director

August 29, 2018

•Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center

CAMI Fast Facts • Over 210 FTEs and over 70 contractors

– Physicians, Engineers, Medical Specialties, Administrative

– Researchers (PhDs): Psychologists, Geneticists, others

• Appropriations:

– Operations $17.1 mil

– Research & Development $12.7 mil

– Facilities & Equipment $ 7.5 mil

– Facilities & Equipment $50.4 mil (FY18 forward)

• Space: over 240,000 square feet, including

– Lab & Office Space

– 747, FlexSim

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CAMI Missions • Airman Certification (O’Brien)

• Aviation Medical Examiner Training (Veronneau)

– Physiology and survival training for pilots

• Human Factors Research (Hackworth)

– Aviation Safety and Air Traffic

• Aeromedical Research (Forster)

• Occupational Health at Aeronautical Center

(Silberman)

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Airman Certification • In 2016, 560,089 medically certified airmen

• Managed through designee examiners

• 36.8% Class 1, 19.8% Class 2, and 43.5% Class 3

• Average age 44.3 years (up 1.3 years since 2014)

• 93.5% of the airmen were male

• Mean BMI for females and males was 24.1 and 27.2,

respectively

• 6% required a special issuance

• Modal condition treated hypertension, 10.4%

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Aerospace Medical Education • Shared oversight of 3,427 AMEs through training

and surveillance with RFS offices

• Aviation physiology training via hypobaric

chambers and normobaric simulation

• Spatial disorientation training

• Global survival training – overwater/cold

• Publication of curricula and research

• Library

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Aerospace Medical Research

• Evaluating and updating medical standards

to latest knowledge and technology

• Evaluating medical impact of new

technologies and capabilities

• Monitoring causes of aerospace accidental

injuries and fatalities

• Developing standards for occupant safety

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Aerospace Human Factors Research

• Design and optimize work environments

• Consider human capabilities and limitations

• Fatigue, attention, user interface, human error

• Understanding how human psychological, social,

physical and biological characteristics affect job

performance in aerospace occupations

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Occupational Health

• Occupational Medicine

• Industrial Hygiene

• Clinical Services

• Institutional Review Board

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Why these missions?

• Human beings as a weak link

• We know mechanical, hydraulic, communication,

and electrical systems can fail and we regulate to

maintain and protect them

• People have biological, cognitive, and performance

limits, too

• Optimize capabilities, protect limitations

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•The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute

Human Factors Capabilities

Human Factors Capabilities (cont.)

Human Factors Capabilities (cont.)

Questions or Comments?

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