Dafydd Williams
Canadian astronaut and physician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dafydd "David" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes.
Dafydd Williams's Published Works
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- Advanced ultrasonic diagnosis of extremity trauma: the FASTER examination. (2002) (95)
- Severe traumatic injury during long duration spaceflight: Light years beyond ATLS (2009) (69)
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Magnitude of Pneumothorax: A New Concept (2001) (62)
- The biomedical challenges of space flight. (2003) (58)
- EMU Shoulder Injury Tiger Team Report (2003) (40)
- Space flight rehabilitation. (2006) (40)
- Animal surgery during spaceflight on the Neurolab Shuttle mission. (2005) (39)
- Selective skin sensitivity changes and sensory reweighting following short-duration space flight. (2014) (39)
- Prophylactic surgery prior to extended-duration space flight: is the benefit worth the risk? (2012) (27)
- Microgravity effects on fine motor skills: tying surgical knots during parabolic flight. (2006) (24)
- Assessment of simulated surgical skills in parabolic microgravity. (2005) (15)
- Selective weighting of cutaneous receptor feedback and associated balance impairments following short duration space flight (2015) (14)
- Human Space Exploration The Next Fifty Years (2011) (10)
- Bioastronautics: optimizing human performance through research and medical innovations. (2002) (9)
- Results from an Investigation into Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) Training Related Shoulder Injuries (2004) (4)
- A Historical Overview of Space Medicine (2020) (3)
- Human Space ExplorationThe Next Fifty Years (2011) (1)
- Measurement of plasma drug concentrations—a clinician's viewpoint (1979) (0)
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