Luke Apisa

Luke Apisa, MD is the Assistant Fellowship Director of the MGH Division of Wilderness Medicine and the inaugural fellow of MGH’s Space Medicine program. Dr. Apisa is a Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He continues to be active in Arctic affairs through the Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative and ongoing work with the Maniilaq Health Center in Kotzebue, AK on quality improvement, virtual medicine, and austere healthcare. During his fellowship year he spent a season researching changes in human cardiopulmonary dynamics at altitude in Pheriche, Nepal. Ongoing topics of interest include high altitude pathology and the application of terrestrial hypobaric hypoxia research to space vehicle atmospheric design.