FACRRM, FRAeS, FRAS, FRGS, FRSA, FGS, FRSPH, FTEC, A/FACAsM, MBBS, MTrauma, MMed (Crit Care), MHlthRemExtEnv, MRSTMH, BSc(Hons), BTeach, DCH, DipRGA, CCPU, CPL(H)
Dr John Cherry is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the Australian Antarctic Division, a Councillor for the Centre for Antarctic, Remote and Maritime Medicine and the Australian Space Analogue Representative for the Joint Expert Group on Human Biology and Medicine. He is the Vice-President of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and the Chair of ASAM’s Space Life Science Committee. Within the space sector he is a member of the Australian Space Agency’s Applied Space Medicine and Life Sciences Technical Advisory Group, a delegate for the Agency’s Australian Civil Space Delegation to the European Space Agency, and a member of the International Astronautical Congress Federal Government Working Group. Dr Cherry is a Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, a Senior Lecturer in Space Medicine with the University of Tasmania and holds roles with Human Aerospace’s Technical Consultancy Group and the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine.
Dr Cherry completed an over-winter deployment in Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Program in 2021, and has undertaken multiple summer deployments, including leading a team in a deep field expedition to Little Dome C, one of the most isolated and challenging environments on Earth. He coordinates extreme environment research undertaken by the Australian Antarctic Division’s Polar Medicine Unit, including international collaborations supporting research studies undertaken in Antarctica and in spaceflight. Prior to medicine, he worked as an astrophysicist, commercial helicopter pilot, high school science teacher, and expedition leader.