Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Aug 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• In this position, I serve as an aeromedical transport physician, helping oversee patient safety and stability during aeromedical transport.

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Jul 2020 – Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• As PI for this flight opportunity, I will mentor the selected Shad team to help develop their payload and prepare it for suborbital flight.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As the Director of Medical Research at OAC, I address the life sciences, medical and physiological research and countermeasure potential that an artificial gravity platform can provide.

May 2020 – Dec 2020 · 7 mos

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

• The PoSSUM/International Institute of Space Sciences Space Medicine Group is comprised of scientists, researchers and clinicians from the PoSSUM community who focus on research, education and health intiatives dedicated to furthering space and terrestrial medicine and health.

Sep 2017 – Oct 2025 · 8 yrs 1 mo

• EVA 101 Wilderness and Space Medicine teaches PoSSUM Citizen Scientist Astronauts the fundamental of space medicine, wilderness medicine, as well as leadership, team work and decision-making in high stress situations.

Oct 2015 – Oct 2025 · 10 yrs

• Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science of the Upper Mesosphere) Scientist-Astronaut candidates undergo spacesuit, suborbital flight & mission simulation, aerobatic flight and hypoxia chamber chamber.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · Canada

Jul 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

May 2017 – May 2017 · 0 mo

Feb 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

• https://www.nsb.com/speakers/shawna-pandya/

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

• General Practitioner

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jun 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs

Feb 2016 – Dec 2022 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• The Astronauts4Hire Life Sciences Committee facilitates members' participation in space medicine and life sciences-related activities, including research, grants, payload development and technology development.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• As the Vice President Life Sciences for the Canadian Space Society, I promote space life sciences-related activities and research and engage others to become involved in the space medicine/life sciences world.

Sep 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

• Students for the Exploration and Development (SEDS) - Canada is a student-run organization that engages students to become involved in space development, research and enterprise. I currently serve on the Board of Advisors for the Canadian national organization.

Jun 2015 – Oct 2025 · 10 yrs 4 mos

• As a member of the A4H Life Sciences board, we research developments and innovations in space life sciences and space medicine.

Feb 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, ON

• The ISDC LaunchPad highlighted the most innovative and exciting works in space exploration and development today in a series of high level, engaging talks. Featured talks covered everything from 3D printing for Mars Exploration to new propulsion systems.

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · TalkMedTech.com

• Join us as we cover the latest and greatest in start-ups, technology, social activism and innovation. You can find us on Twitter @talkmedtech.

Oct 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

• The Kalpana Chawla Scholarship Project funds deserving and gifted Indian post-graduate students to attend the International Space University's Space Studies Program. Interested in donating? Get in touch!

May 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos · South Cooking Lake, AB

• Private Pilot's License in progress.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Sep 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 7 mos

• Semesterly lectures and workshops on technology in medicine, fostering a culture of innovation and bringing ideas to reality.

Sep 2007 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• My interests in this field relate to surgery, telemedicine/telesurgery, neuroscience, cellular mechanisms of healing/regeneration, tissue engineering, research in microgravity, space technologies for medical benefit, trauma, medical technologies and ensuring universal access to medical care.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo

– Present

Jan 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

Aug 2009 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• CiviGuard is dedicated to providing mobile phone applications to assist civilians and officials alike during times of crisis.

Jan 2009 – Oct 2025 · 16 yrs 9 mos · Various

• Previous talks include University of Alberta Alumni Weekend Keynote - "The Next 100 Years," TEDxEdmonton 2010 - "What I Thought I Knew About Innovation Was Wrong," closing Keynote speaker at the Singapore Agency for Science Technology and Research 20th Scientific Congress and opening Keynote speaker at the Jean Forest Leadership Academy's SHINE Leadership conference. Topics covered include innovation, leadership, technology, medicine, grand challenges and building a better world.
• University of Alberta "Next 100 Years" talk - https://youtu.be/ux4VbDcnLfY
• TEDxEdmonton 2010 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bLwrTXuBk

Jul 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 9 mos

• www.iloa.org

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos

• neuroArm is a neurosurgical robot modelled after CanadArm technologies. In my work with the neuroArm team, I helped conduct the pre-clinical testing of the robot, the results of which were published in the April 2009 issue Journal of Neurosurgery.

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 · 2 mos

• I worked as a research intern within the European Astronaut Center's Crew Medical Support Office and was responsible for developing a quick reference safety and hazards manual for the then novel Autonomous Transfer Vehicle to the International Space Station.

May 2007 – Aug 2007 · 3 mos

• As part of my MSc at the International Space University, I completed an 11-week internship in the Crew Medical Support Office at the European Space Agency's European Astronaut Center. As part of my project at CMSO EAC, I summarized thousands of pages of engineering and technical documents into a 96-paged Quick-Reference Guide on Crew Health Hazards associated the Autonomous Transfer Vehicle, a supply vehicle to the International Space Station.

Sep 2005 – Aug 2006 · 11 mos

• The work conducted in the Yager lab pertained to studies of caffeine, morphine and caffeine-morphine in the neonatal rat as a model for the premature infant. This work was published in the Journal of Brain Research in July 2008 as "Effect of Caffeine & Morphine on the Developing Premature Brain."

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos

• In this project, we studied arginine metabolism in week-old piglets as a model for premature human infants.

May 2004 – Jan 2005 · 8 mos

• In this project, we studied co-expression of estrogen receptors with somatostatin in the goldfish brain.