Awarded Aerospace Medicine & Human Factors Expert

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Award-winning physician-scientist, aerospace medicine specialist, and human factors expert with over 15 years of experience supporting safety, human performance, and operational resilience in aviation, aerospace, healthcare, and other high-consequence environments. Extensive expertise in accident investigation, human performance analysis, survivability, safety systems, operational risk management, and human-systems integration. Recipient of the 2024 Aerospace Medical Association John Paul Stapp Award, recognizing contributions to aerospace medicine and human performance research related to accident investigation and injuries caused by vibration, impact, and ejection forces. Professional experience includes multidisciplinary aviation accident and incident investigations involving human factors, aeromedical causation, survivability, organizational safety, and operational performance. Contributed to over 30 aviation accident and incident investigations, including major accidents, while serving as an Aerospace Medicine Specialist and Aeromedical Assessor with the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority. Experienced in evidence-based safety analysis, technical reporting, regulatory compliance, operational policy development, and safety recommendation development. Founder and Principal Consultant of SmartFlight, an aerospace medicine and human factors consultancy focused on aviation safety, operational performance, human-centered systems, and accident analysis. Provides subject matter expertise involving human performance, fatigue, workload, usability, safety culture, organizational risk, and high-consequence operational environments. Adjunct Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University since 2018, teaching graduate and professional courses in aerospace safety, accident investigation, aerospace physiology, human factors, and survivability. Also serves as Associate Adjunct Professor and International Coordinator for the Aerospace Medicine Program at National University of Colombia. Education and training include Aerospace Medicine, Human Factors, aviation safety, accident investigation, aerospace physiology, and operational risk analysis. Additional professional training and coursework completed through organizations and institutions including NASA, FAA, NTSB, MIT, IATA, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Research and consulting interests include: * Aviation and aerospace accident investigation * Human factors and human performance analysis * Crash survivability and occupant protection * Fatigue, workload, and operational decision-making * Aerospace physiology and pilot performance * Safety Management Systems (SMS) and HSEQ systems * Organizational safety culture and operational resilience * Human-machine interaction and usability engineering * Medical device usability and use-error analysis * Space medicine and human performance in extreme environments * Risk mitigation in high-consequence operations * Patient Safety and Hospital Systems * Autonomous and AI-enabled operational health systems Published author and researcher in aerospace medicine, aviation safety, human factors, survivability, operational health, and safety systems, with presentations and publications through Aerospace Medicine, Human Performance, Ergonomics and other international scientific forums. Available for consulting, expert witness services, case review, technical analysis, deposition, and testimony involving aviation safety, aerospace medicine, human factors, operational risk, fatigue, survivability, organizational safety, and human performance in complex operational systems.