Luke Apisa, MD

Intersociety Relations Committee Chair

Luke Apisa, MD is a Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Fellowship Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, and faculty and inaugural graduate of the MGH Space Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Apisa is active in Arctic affairs and climate policy through the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy’s Arctic Initiative, as well as ongoing operational work with polar climate research field teams. He has served as the expedition physician on missions from the tundra to the Himalayas. Dr. Apisa served on the flight surgeon teams for both the Axiom 3 and Polaris Dawn missions, and continues private consulting and contract work across the commercial spaceflight sector. Past and present investigations include research on changes in human cardiopulmonary dynamics at altitude in the Khumbu Valley of Everest and the application of terrestrial hypobaric hypoxia research to space vehicle atmospheric design.