2025 AsMA Fellows Scholarship Winners

The AsMA Fellows Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce their selection of the 2025 scholarship winners. The 1^st Place Winner was Dr. Karolina Twardowska for her presentation and published manuscript on “Cardiovascular Effects of Hypercapnia During Lower Body Negative Pressure and Head-Up Tilt”. The 2^nd Place Winner was Dr. Thomas Diaz for his presentation and manuscript on “Magnesium Alterations in Human Spaceflight”.

The AsMA Fellows Scholarship is funded by the AsMA Foundation and is presented annually to two AsMA members who are students in an aerospace medicine residency program, graduate program in aerospace medicine (Master or Ph.D.), medical certificate or aerospace diploma course, or in a full-time education/training program in the allied fields of nursing, physiology, human factors, psychology, ergonomics, and engineering.  Selection criteria include delivering a slide or poster presentation as a first author at the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting and then submitting a manuscript as first author for publication in AsMA’s Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance (AMHP) Journal based on the same topic and/or material covered in the slide or poster presentation.   The 1^st and 2^nd Place Winners are selected by the AsMA Fellows Scholarship Committee based on the highest scientific value, originality, quality, and relevance of the applicant’s presentation and AMHP manuscript related to the field of aerospace medicine (including allied scientific disciplines).  Special consideration is given to those applicants who are at an early stage in their career development. The scholarship monetary awards are used for the purpose of underwriting, in whole or in part, the cost of registration fees, transportation, hotel accommodations, or any other valid fees or expenses incurred by the winners in relation to their attendance at one or more scholarly meetings on topics related to aerospace medicine.

Seven candidates delivered presentations at the 2025 AsMA meeting in Atlanta, GA (first eligibility requirement). Five candidates submitted manuscripts that were approved for publication in the AMHP journal (second eligibility requirement). These five candidates were considered the final eligible candidates for the 2025 scholarship.