University of Texas Medical Branch-Wyle flight surgeon for NASA’s Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Constellation Programs; Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., 1997; M.D. from the University of Texas – Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, 2001; until her selection she was Assistant Professor and Physician in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Division of Clinical Preventive Medicine, and Internal Medicine at the UTMB; Hobbies: basketball, softball, cricket, hiking at home in the mountains of Colorado and jet-skiing in the Galveston surf.