ABOUT ME

Marc O Griofa, MD is a tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) and advanced trauma life support (ATLS) instructor preparing both operators and physicians pre-deployment and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. Dr O Griofa is the principle investigator for Project CASPER (Cardiac Adapted Sleep Parameters Recorder), which was the first Irish experiment to fly onboard ISS and Space Shuttle as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Astrolab mission focusing on the monitoring of sleep during both spaceflight and in remote extreme environments using cardiac autonomic activity as a surrogate marker for sleep stability. He spent 3 years at Kennedy Space Center as part of the Aerospace Medicine and Biomedical Research departments providing medical support for the Space Shuttle program.