Launch (Universal Time): January 22, 1992, 14h 52m 33s, Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 39-A, Distance: 3,360 million miles (5,407 million km), Landing date (wheel stop, Universal Time): January 30, 1992, 16h 08m 16s, Landing: Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Understanding the Present—Launching the Future (For Educators). Her groundbreaking work in space medicine, based on her specialties of neurology and neuro-ophthalmology, has been widely acclaimed and published in peer-reviewed journals. She holds medical licenses in New Mexico, Ontario and is a Canadian Board Certified Neurologist with a subspecialty in Neuro-ophthalmology. Required fields are marked *, Comments about seeing this speaker live? Quite often we are pushed into change, or pulled, and this is something that makes us take stuttering steps. Toronto was selected as the North American host city for World Environment Day 2011 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). This research has been published in peer-reviewed medical research journals. High-powered organizations including Yale University, the United Nations Environment Program, Pfizer and the FBI have all invited her to give her remarkable motivational speeches on achievement and peak performance. The students were very impressed and they were very happy with all the books she brought for them. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.

    Cree School (booking organized by Speaking.com), “A wonderful speaker… exuding intelligence, great warmth and compassion..” Free Speaker Consultation & Booking, Booking a Keynote Speaker with SPEAKING.com FAQs, Exclusive Interviews with Our Thought Leaders, Check Roberta Bondar's Availability and Fee. As you can see, it was an exciting day for everyone!” Her techniques have been used in clinical studies at the B. I. Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and at the University of New Mexico. A true renaissance woman, Dr. Bondar is an acclaimed photographer of the environment.

Touching the Earth... a lifelong relationship

For More than a decade she was NASA's head of space medicine. We need to embrace change and the unknown. Using her expertise as a photographer, Dr. Bondar offers fascinating presentations illustrated by photographs from her journey into space and around the globe, asking us to contemplate the nature of the planet and our responsibilities to it. An author, environmental educator and celebrated landscape photographer, Dr. Bondar has also earned a reputation as a leading speaker and consultant within the medical and scientific communities, and in the field of corporate social responsibility and care for the earth's environment.

( Log Out /  Holder of the NASA Space Medal and inducted into the International Women’s Forum Hall of Fame and Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking research in space medicine, Roberta Bondar has also received 24 honorary doctorates from Canadian and American universities. Be sure to not miss an update! This unique combination will ensure that any event will be extraordinary. An author, environmental educator and celebrated landscape photographer, Dr. Bondar has also earned a reputation as a leading speaker and consultant within the medical and scientific communities, and in the field of corporate social responsibility and care for the Earth’s environment.

Toronto was selected as the North American host city for World Environment Day 2011 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). For more information about Dr. Roberta Bondar or to contact her office: www.robertabondar.com, Emergency Procedures | Accessibility | Contact UBC  | © Copyright The University of British Columbia, Westcoast Women For more than a decade at NASA, Dr. Bondar headed an international space medicine research team, continuing to find new connections between astronauts recovering from the microgravity of space and neurological illnesses here on Earth such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Roberta Bondar explores the concepts of change for a TEDx audience.