As. Prof. Anne Pavy-Le Traon

SNeurology department, University hospital of Toulouse and MEDES, Institute of space physiology and medicine

Lecture title: Brain and eye in Space : Impact of real and simulated microgravity

Anne Pavy-Le Traon is Associate Professor of Neurology specialised in Aerospace Medicine at the Medicine Faculty of University of Toulouse. She is working as a Medical Practitioner and Researcher in the Neurology Department at the University Hospital of Toulouse.  She is a specialist in disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and is Head of the Autonomic Laboratory, which she implemented in the Neurology Department. She directs the teaching of the aerospace medicine diploma at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toulouse.

Besides her position in the hospital, she works as a Deputy Medical Manager in the Institute of Space Physiology and Medicine named MEDES in Toulouse.

She was nominated as a member of the ESA Medical Board in May 2018.

She has been an expert and lecturer both in autonomic nervous system and in Aerospace Medicine for many years. She holds an MD in Neurology and a PhD.

Her particular field of expertise is the autonomic nervous system and its role in cerebral circulation adaptation and their disorders, both in Neurology and Microgravity. Her most recent research has focused on autonomic failure in MSA patients and on neuro-ophthalmological changes in simulated microgravity