Joanna "Booster" Nelms Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Kelly Field, Texas

Completion of AMP courses and winged as rated aircrew in fall 2011. All further work in the USAF from this point on has been building on this initial qualification and an aeromedical and operational medicine practitioner.

Hq Aetc/Sg

Provides guidance and policy management for aerospace and occupational medicine for 11 Air Education Training Command installation medical units and multiple geographically separated medical staff. Oversees medical support for $1.1B flying training mission across the command. Serves as certification functional for 10.4K aircrew/special duty physical exams/year. Primary team member in initial public health emergency response and continued policy crafting and distribution for COVID-19 global pandemic.

Jbsa Randolph

Clinical aviation and occupational medicine specialist and program management of the aeromedical enterprise. Lead operational medical consultant to the 12th Flying Training Wing. Supervised medical and occupational health service and aerospace medicine program management at high-visibility headquarters base and during medical facility ownership transition ensuring continued access to care for 1.2K pilots/special operators. Spearheaded clinical operations balanced with aerospace and occupational medicine, public health, bioenvironmental engineering, operational physiology, and health promotion program management. Enabled transition of 2.5K patients between care teams reducing administrative processing by 56%. Dual hatted with Pilot Training Next consultation work.

Austin, Texas

Provided health and human performance program design and support for a novel USAF pilot training operation. Integrating medical and human performance assets from AETC, 711th Human Performance Wing, AFRL, and civilian enterprises in order to create optimal strategies for aviator education. Investigating the use of VR and AI technologies in education and the physiologic and psychological challenges that integration of these technologies may impose on learners and instructors.Directed Human Performance Optimization for Pilot Training Next in tasking to discover and develop a more effective learning methodology applied to context of military pilot training. Executed interpretation of USAF aeromedical standards, disease surveillance, fatigue management, airsickness mitigation, aircraft incident and mishap response, occupational and environmental health, and human performance system integration in support of experimental training joint service and nation operations. Enabled production of military pilots in 45% of the time and at 33% of the cost of traditional pilot training programs. Pioneered candidate screening program that selected and graduated first enlisted military pilots since WW II.

Sheppard Afb, Texas

Clinical aviation and occupational medicine specialist and program management of the aeromedical enterprise (to include Aerospace and Operational Physiology, Aerospace Medicine, Bio-environmental engineering, Health Promotions, and Public Health.). Lead operational medical consultant to the 82nd Training Wing and 80th Flying Training Wing, including the 14 nation NATO joint training mission, Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT).

Wright Patterson Afb

Completed 3 year residency of Aerospace Medicine, to include 1 year completion of a Masters in Public Health Management at Wright State University. "Clinical" years were comprised of a mix of leadership experience and opportunities, exposure to industry and international methods of preventive, aerospace, and occupational medicine, and clinical rotations in these fields.

Dyess Afb

Fight surgeon subject matter expert attached to the 9th Bomb Squadron at Dyess AFB, TX

Uc Davis Healthcare, Sacramento, Ca

Member of surgical care teams at a major level 1 trauma center, local VA hospital, and David Grant Medical Center on Travis, AFB. Experienced high acuity clinical care settings in vascular, burn, cardio-thoracic, trauma, oncology, and urological surgical fields.

Doctor Of Medicine (Md), Medicine

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Basic Exercise Physiology

Master'S Degree, Public Health Management

Education record

Air War College via internet correspondence