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Dr. Aunon, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, has served as the clinical currency coordinator for NASA flight surgeon training at UTMB as well as a medical monitor for the artificial gravity and bedrest projects. She supported the launch of spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Mission 14S and participated in the medical evaluation of other spaceflight participants through Space Adventures.

She has spent more than nine months in Russia supporting medical operations for International Space Station crewmembers in Star City including water survival training in the Ukraine. She is currently assigned as the deputy crew surgeon for STS-127 and Expedition 22, and she serves as the deputy lead for Orion - Medical Operations. She graduated in 1997 with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University and studied medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

UTMB has supported Wyle by providing operational support for the Shuttle program and International Space Station. UTMB and Wyle provide NASA approximately 10 physicians through Wyle's Bioastronautics Contract that, among many other activities, supports the International Space Station program at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, advanced medical projects, and the International Artificial Gravity Project.

In addition, UTMB physicians provide direct clinical care plus telemedicine support at the NASA-Johnson Space Center flight medicine clinic. UTMB has initiated telemedicine support for clinical services at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. It also provides Johnson Space Center Medical Operations with a clinical competency training program for NASA clinicians.

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