SGAC announces the appointment of Anthony Yuen as Interim Treasurer. Anthony will take temporarily the responsibilities of treasurer from Arnau Pons, who has recently been elected as Interim Chair, until a new treasurer is selected.
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Anthony Yuen is a medical doctor with a degree in mechanical and space engineering from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently a pediatric emergency physician and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at NewYork Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Prior to medical school, he was the Chair of the 2006 Queensland Youth Aerospace Forum and attended the 2007 Space Station Design Workshop in Sydney. His experiences span areas as diverse as ramjets, global health, artificial hearts and medical simulations. His eventual goal is to develop innovative approaches that encompass medicine, engineering and technology to overcome the challenges of long duration space flight on the human body. He served as the Web Coordinator for SGAC from 2015 to 2018.