Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space

Center episode 249. Ultra sounds anywhere. I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all

to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight. If you live in a bigger

city, chances are you live close to a hospital that is at least a drivable distance.

It's not always the case, though, particularly in more remote areas. And it's definitely

not the case for astronauts living in space. With long duration missions, having remote

access to medical professionals is a must. A project on the space station called Advanced

Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity or Adam was created to see how to potentially diagnose

medical conditions and injuries in space through ultrasounds. On the way to Mars, there's

really no turning around to find a convenient hospital for medical examinations. So astronauts

will need to be able to help their fellow crewmates on the go from millions of miles away.

Adam successfully demonstrated this capability of remote ultrasound on the space station,

but what if we could broaden the scope and use the same capability to conduct remote ultrasounds

here on Earth? This eventually created a foundation for win focus, the world interactive network

focused on critical ultrasound and the world leading scientific network for ultrasounds.

On this episode, we're joined by Dr. Scott Dolchowski, principal investigator for Adam and

surgeon in chief and chairman at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan, and Dr. Daniel

Siegel, musculoskeletal radiologist also at Henry Ford Health. Both doctors will be discussing

how these projects not only impact long-term spaceflight on the International Space Station,

the moon, and eventually Mars, but how it can and has impacted the people here on Earth.

With that, let's get right into it. Enjoy.

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