Dean Nancy Andrews sent the following message to faculty and students in the School of Medicine:
I hope you can join us for a rare opportunity to hear Robert L. Satcher, MD, PhD, a trailblazing physician-scientist/engineer, talk about his experience as the first orthopaedic oncologist to walk in space.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 28 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Searle Center.
Dr. Satcher is a musculoskeletal oncologist, clinical assistant professor in orthopaedic oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. He was selected by NASA to be an astronaut in 2004, and spent 11 days at the International Space Station in 2009. He has logged more than 259 hours in space.
Dr. Satcher earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at MIT and his M.D. at Harvard University School of Medicine. He joined M. D. Anderson after he moved with his family to Houston to train as an astronaut at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
For more information, please contact Mary Greenway at mary.greenway@duke.edu.