Dr John Cherry is a Director of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and the Chair of ASAM’s Space Life Science Committee. He is a member of the Australian Space Agency’s Applied Space Medicine and Life Sciences Technical Advisory Group and he has previously worked for NASA and European Space Agency developing medical support and training for astronauts. He remains actively engaged in Space Medicine research and works as a Rural Generalist with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. He recently returned from an over-winter deployment with the Australian Antarctic Program as the wintering doctor at Davis Station in Antarctica. Prior to medicine, he worked as an Astrophysicist, commercial helicopter pilot, high school science teacher, and expedition leader.