Dana Levin

Dr. Dana R. Levin currently serves as the Director of Space Medicine and Human Research for Vast, a commercial company building the first commercial space station. He is board certified in Aerospace and Emergency Medicine and works clinicaly with the UCLA and UCI departments of emergency medicine. Before Vast, Dr. Levin was a physician with NASA and the assistant fellowship director for the Massachusetts General Hospital Space Medicine Fellowship.

As a terrestrial physician Dana maintains an active clinical practice in Emergency Medicine and holds faculty appointments with UCLA, UC Irvine, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has cared for patients in clinical settings ranging from single coverage rural hospitals to tertiary care medical centers and has been the field physician for high altitude expeditions, underwater archeological expeditions, Antarctic research stations, and every environment in between. He is also an accomplished researcher and scientist with work focused on enhancing the ability to deliver high level care in resource limited environments and extreme environment physiology.