Dr. Dana Levin has dedicated his career to advancing human health in space and other extreme environments. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Aerospace Medicine and has more than a decade of experience caring for humans on all seven continents, beneath the sea, and in spaceflight environments.

Dr. Levin currently serves as Medical Director and Chief Flight Surgeon for Vast Space, where he is helping develop the world’s first commercial space station and artificial-gravity systems for long-duration human spaceflight. Prior to joining Vast, he worked at NASA as a Clinical Scientist for the Human Research Program, developing methods to assess medical risk for deep-space missions and designing medical systems to mitigate those risks. He also served as clinical lead for NASA’s artificial intelligence clinical decision-support task force.

As a terrestrial physician, Dr. Levin maintains an active emergency medicine practice and has held faculty appointments with University of California Irvine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine. His clinical experience spans settings ranging from single-physician rural hospitals in Wyoming to major tertiary-care medical centers in large U.S. cities.

Dr. Levin has also served as a field physician for high-altitude expeditions, underwater archaeological missions, research stations in Antarctica, and other extreme-environment operations around the world.

In addition to his clinical work, he is an accomplished researcher focused on improving high-level medical care in resource-limited environments and advancing artificial-gravity systems for future human space exploration.