Gary E. Beven, MD

Gary E. Beven, MD currently serves as the Chief of the Space Medicine Operations Division within the Human Health and Performance (HH&P) Directorate. The Space Medicine Operations Division is responsible for advancing and protecting the health and well-being of astronauts and the Johnson Space Center workforce to enable human exploration of space. Areas of responsibility include medical support of NASA’s human spaceflight mission including the International Space Station, Commercial Crew, Commercial Low Earth Orbit, and Artemis Programs. Other areas of leadership responsibility include:

• JSC Flight Medicine Clinic
• JSC Occupational Medicine Clinic & Occupational Health Program
• JSC Employee Assistance Program
• Human Test Subject Screening
• Sonny Carter Training Facility Neutral Buoyancy Lab medical services
• Ellington Field Flight Operations medical services
• NASA medical operations in Moscow and Star City, Russia
• White Sands Test Facility Clinic, NM
• Behavioral Health and Performance Operations Group
• Astronaut Strength, Conditioning and Rehabilitation (ASCR)
• Exploration Medical Capabilities Element (ExMC) of the Human Research Program
• Space Radiation Analysis Group
• Research Operations and Integration Element (ROI) of the Human Research Program
• Biomedical Engineering

Education

Dr Beven received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He interned at the Cleveland Clinic, underwent residency training in psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and performed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is board certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry and is a Certified Physician Executive.

Experience

Dr. Beven has worked as a physician at the Johnson Space Center since 2005. He has previously served as the Johnson Space Center Chief of Aerospace Psychiatry, Lead of the Behavioral Health and Performance Operations Group, Deputy Chief of the Space and Occupational Medicine Branch, and Chief of the Space and Occupational Medicine Branch. Dr Beven is a retired US Air Force Lt Colonel and flight surgeon with 24 years of military service and a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. Dr. Beven has received the Space Flight Awareness Silver Snoopy Award for exemplary behavioral health and performance support to the NASA Astronaut Corps during International Space Station missions and is a recipient of the Aerospace Medical Association’s Raymond F. Longacre Award for outstanding accomplishments in the psychological and psychiatric aspects of aerospace medicine.