Today’s guest is Dr. Dan Buckland — an emergency physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of human performance, medical risk, and space exploration. He has served as the Deputy Human System Risk Manager at NASA, helping shape how we keep astronauts healthy and safe on long‑duration missions. Dr Buckland is also a researcher in autonomy, robotics, and human‑factors engineering, bringing systems thinking from aerospace into the emergency department. Few people understand high‑stakes decision‑making — on Earth and Beyond! — the way he does.
In this episode we uncover the way Dr Buckland thinks and approaches complex problems, how he considers risk, how AI and autonomous systems and tools are shaping our futures, and what it was like to work in NASA.
https://emed.wisc.edu/people/daniel-buckland/
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