Pioneering Astronaut, Entrepreneur, and Physician Mae Jemison to Speak at the USACS Women’s Dialogue During ACEP18
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Aug 22, 2018
US Acute Care Solutions is honored to announce that Mae Jemison, MD, who was the first woman of color in the world to go into space and who continues to be a national advocate for science and education through her leadership on and service to multiple organizations, will be the keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual Women’s Dialogue Series at the ACEP18 Scientific Assembly in San Diego.
The USACS Women’s Dialogue Series, held each year at ACEP Scientific Assembly, invites pioneering women to share their experiences and provides a forum for women in emergency medicine to have conversations about the issues important to them. All attendees to ACEP18 are warmly invited.
Jemison received her MD in 1981 from Cornell Medical College. She interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, one of the largest public teaching hospitals in the United States, before briefly working as a general practitioner. From 1983 to 1985, Jemison served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Inspired by African-American actress Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, Jemison applied to and in 1987 was accepted to join the astronaut program at NASA. She was a NASA astronaut for six years, becoming the first woman of color in the world to travel into space.
Since leaving NASA, Jemison has continued her commitment to science, exploration, and technology as an advocate and entrepreneur. She leads 100 Year Starship, an initiative to ensure capabilities for human travel beyond our solar system within 100 years. The initiative is funded through a competitive grant from DARPA, the US Defense Department’s premiere research agency. Jemison also founded the international science camp The Earth We Share™ for students 12-16 years old, is the Bayer Corporation USA’s national science literacy ambassador, and is a co-host of NatGeo’s “One Strange Rock.” From 1995 through 2001, she was an Environmental Studies professor at Dartmouth College, where she taught courses on sustainable development and technology design.
Jemison is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine and is a recipient of the National Organization for Women’s Intrepid Award and the Kilby Science Award. She also has a life-long love of dancing, is a mini LEGO figure in the Women of NASA LEGO set, was the first real astronaut to ever appear in an episode of Star Trek, and in 1999 was voted in the White House Project Straw Poll as one of the top seven women leaders most likely to become President of the United States.
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