Dr. Charles A. Berry Space Medicine Association Lifetime Achievement Award - 2016
BA - UC Berkley 1945 MD - UC Berkley 1947 MPH - Harvard 1956 Internship - UC San Francisco 1947-1948 Family Practice - Indio, CA 1948-1951 USAF Av Med Residency - Randolph AFB 1951-1952 USAF Flight Surgeon - Panama 1952-1955 USAF School of AM - Randolph AFB 1956-1959 Surgeon General Office - Washington, DC 1959-1962
Mercury Astronaut Selection Committee 1959 Project Mercury Aeromedical Monitor 1962 Medical Operations NASA JSC 1962-1974 Chief Medical Operations Director Medical Research and Operations Director of Life Sciences President UTHSC 1974-1977
Mercury Gemini –. Enormous pressure from the US Mercury Gemini – Enormous pressure from the US scientific community regarding research vs. operations Gemini - First long duration flights (4, 8, 14 days) Gemini - Medical issues for first EVAs Apollo - First appearance of SMS Apollo - Pre flight quarantine program Apollo - Medical issues for first Lunar EVAs Apollo - Post Lunar quarantine program Apollo - Apollo 13 medical issues Skylab - Long duration spaceflight medical, research, and countermeasure issues (1, 2, 3 month)
President - Space Medicine Branch 1965 President – AsMA 1969 AsMA Tuttle Award 1961 AsMA Bauer Award 1966 AsMA Lyster Award 1982 SMB Strughold Award 1967 SNFS Lovelace Award 1991 Hermann Oberth Award 1974 Presidential Medal of Freedom 1970 Charles A Berry Award – IAASM 2013 Charles A. Berry Library UTMB 2003 Nominated Nobel Prize in Medicine 1979
Dr. Charles A. Berry Astronaut’s Personal Physician