Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Dr. Robert Satcher, Jr.
Dr. Robert Satcher, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Satcher, Robert Lee, Jr., 1965- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Houston, Texas 2014 March 3.
Recorded Houston, Texas 2014 May 7.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Orthopaedic surgeon and astronaut Robert Lee Satcher, Jr. was born on September 22, 1965 in Hampton, Virginia. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986, his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from MIT in 1993, and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1994. From 2001 to 2008, Satcher served as a professor of orthopaedic surgery and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He joined NASA in 2004, and in 2009, became the first orthopaedic surgeon in space during NASA's STS-129 mission, where he performed two spacewalks. Satcher left NASA in September 2011, and served as a surgical oncologist and assistant professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He completed medical missions for outreach care to underserved areas in Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nigeria, and founded the eHealth Research Institute.
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