About Joan Vernikos
"A role model for the benefits of active living, she brings both passion and humor to all her endeavors" Kathleen M.Connell, the CWGroup, San Diego, CA.
Joan Vernikos PhD, former Director of NASA's Life Sciences Division ('93-00) is a motivational speaker, stress expert, space consultant, author and publisher. She is passionate about helping others take responsibility for their own wellness. She is a member of the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Active in the international space policy arena she serves as space correspondent for Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy and consults for the European Space Agency. Joan's bio profiles her key involvement in conducting gravity-related pioneering research both in the microgravity of spaceflight and in ground-based simulations. She holds several patents on technologies important to gravity's role in good health including one for a human-powered centrifuge. (77k pdf). A ground prototype is used for research at NASA's Ames Research Center, CA. This on-board centrifuge design was proposed as a means of providing artificial gravity to shuttle as well as Space Station crews while the shuttle was docked at the Station and before returning to Earth.
What others say: "Joan is a person who sees at least 200
years ahead. She knows life. She feels ahead what needs to be done in
research and especially aerospace science where I believe she is the
leader and will be for years." Dr. C K Papadeli, 2010.
Her book, The G-Connection: Harness Gravity and Reverse Aging, applies lessons learned from U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts living in space without gravity's influence, to healthy living on Earth. The book, due to its broad international interest, is published in English, Greek, Japanese and a Portuguese version co-authored with Dr.Thais Russomano was released in Brazil in 2009.
Stress Fitness for Seniors was published in 2009.
Her articles on gravity, stress management and healthy aging provide her recipe for living a sustainable lifestyle for health anf wellness.
A new book Kick-Start Your Health - Join the Gravity Revolution in which she discusses for the first time the value of gravity as therapy is due out in 2011 published by Quill Driver Books, CA.
Joan is a sought-after motivational speaker and consultant on the Gravity Revolution for achieving truly effective Preventive Health Care. She has developed simple methods to counter the consequences of our increasingly sedentary life style.
An expert on stress management and effective coping skills, she advocates stress fitness as the foundation of good health. She speaks on this and related topics for optimizing health and wellness.