Natacha Chough, MD, MPH

Flight Surgeon at NASA-Johnson Space Center (KBR/UTMB contract) • Faculty, UTMB Aerospace Medicine Division • Board Certified Aerospace Medicine & Emergency Medicine physician

United States

About

Dual-boarded Aerospace Medicine & Emergency Medicine physician with experience in operational space medicine (government and commercial), international, and wilderness medicine. NASA experience at JSC, KSC, Ames, JPL, & GSFC. Operational field medical experience in Russia, Kazakhstan, US Peace Corps (Turkmenistan), Wilderness Medical Society, and National Ski Patrol. Fluent in English, French; conversational Russian.

Experience

  • Flight Surgeon at The University of Texas Medical Branch
    Mar 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

    Operational flight surgeon at NASA, supporting International Space Station (ISS) missions, including Expeditions 48/49, 57/58, 64, 71, and Axiom-1 (first all-private crew to ISS). Deployments to Star City, Russia to support US astronaut crew training activities with Russian counterparts; deployments to Kazakhstan to support Soyuz launch & landing operations for ISS missions. -Board certified (ABPM-Aerospace Medicine; ABEM; Multilateral Space Medicine Board) -ISS console certified flight controller -Medical lead for Direct Return missions (post-spaceflight landing recovery and return of astronauts via NASA aircraft) -Physician lead for Star City operations -Former lead physician for Health Maintenance System (HMS) for ISS

  • Attending Physician at Emergency Medicine
    Aug 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 11 mos

    Board certified (ABEM) Medical licensure: CA, TX, FL Current certifications: ATLS, ACLS, PALS, BLS, DEA.

  • Aerospace Medicine Chief Resident at UTMB
    2014 - 2015 · 1 yr

  • North Cascades Mountaineering Course at National Outdoor Leadership School
    Aug 2014 - Aug 2014 · 1 mo

    Leadership, mountaineering, expedition planning, glacier travel, outdoorsmanship.

  • Resident Clinician at CIWEC Clinic
    May 2013 - Jun 2013 · 2 mos

    International medicine elective with management of HAPE, HACE, acute mountain sickness, traveler's diarrhea, trauma.