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🔜Core Surgical Trainee & @esa | MBBS @QMULBartsTheLon | MSc @KCLAerospaceMed | MPhys Astrophysics @UniOfHull | PhD @yorkshirecancer | Postdoc @MSKCancerCenter

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 months

Turns out the space medicine dream is being kept well alive… I’ve been selected by the European Space Agency @esa to be their sponsored medical doctor at Concordia Base, Antarctica for the winter-over in 2025. Time out of NHS training incoming…❄️🐧🇦🇶🚀🥼🩺 (📸 :Concordia blog)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

End of med school leaving gifts from the GP practice I just spent two months with. Yes I cried. 🙈🙌✈️🚀🚁🩺 #AviationMedicine #SpaceMedicine #FoundationProgramme

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Y’all. I. Have. Finished. Medical school. * Final exams, done!!!! Placements, done!!! 6 years of the best and worst times of my life to be honest. Loading double doctor P. *Pending any resits, gulp, and elective 🥳🤩✈️🚁🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 months

This is going to be such a tough decision. Aviation & Space Medicine/Intensivist dream versus Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon dream. Tonight I don’t think I’m going to sleep. The double life of hard work has paid off but now I need to decide! 🚀💊💉😷

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 months

After much deliberation…I’ve accepted a General Surgery themed core training program. I’m gonna be a surgeon!! 😷👩🏼‍⚕️🔪🤩 and perhaps I’ll find a way to make the space dream happen too - space surgery anyone?! 🚀😷 (sorry anaesthetics and I’ll see you in the operating room ❤️)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 months

This is going to be such a tough decision. Aviation & Space Medicine/Intensivist dream versus Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon dream. Tonight I don’t think I’m going to sleep. The double life of hard work has paid off but now I need to decide! 🚀💊💉😷

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Got our finals results this morning. Delighted to see that big juicy PASS in every box. I’m finally going to be a doctor. 😁🎉👩🏼‍⚕️ @QMULBartsTheLon

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Pretty cool as a 1st gen working class Geordie gal to press submit on a job application to become an astronaut! Worth a shot, right? Would proudly put European astronaut corps reject on my CV 😋🚀 #YourWayToSpace @esa @esaspaceflight @ESADiversity

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with Honours; Blues for Aerospace Medicine; Colours for The Breast Project Barts; intercalating a Master’s. Finally done with medical school! Dr Nina Purvis MPhys PhD PGCert MSc MBBS will see you now 😎🥳🎓👩🏼‍⚕️ #QMULGrad

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

My first 100% at medical school and in my @NASA supervised space medicine dissertation 🥺🎉🤩🎓✈️🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

4th year exams ✅ Dissertation hand-in ✅ Now for the summer holidays ☀️ (with a pinch of anxiety awaiting results…) It’s truly been an honour to get to work with experts at @NASA ’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer! It’s been a helluva learning curve 🧬🚀📝

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Definitely a contender for best placement whilst at medical school! Teaching has been superb! @Moorfields 👁 #Opthalmology

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

First day tomorrow - going to document being a doctor in the form of one line a day 📝 wonder where I’ll be in 5 years ✨ #JuniorDoctor

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 months

Out Of Programme Experience approved ✅ Feels SO good to be supported by the deanery and be able to take time out of training instead of giving up my core surgical training post to work for @esa in Antarctica 🚀🇦🇶

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

1 month

Started my official duties with @esa @esaspaceflight today, briefing on the biomedical & psychological studies I’ll be carrying out in Antarctica for the winter-over 2025. I even met the first doctor to winter-over 20 years ago, Dr Dicasilati, a general surgeon! 🚀🇦🇶

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Results day today. I failed an exam. I know it’s not the be all and end all, but after this academic year, I just wanted to rest and recharge over summer. One for the anti-CV! Send good luck vibes for resits next month 💪🤞 #MedStudentTwitter

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

8 days

#NewProfilePic @esa

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Over the moon (excuse the pun) to have been awarded the @AsMASpaceMed Space Medicine Association International Scholarship for #AsMA2020 - if it’s not safe/able for me to travel, they’ll mail me it. My first ever plaque and a #spacemedicine one at that! Thank you so much 🙏🚀🩺😃

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Starting my final year medical school elective in Aviation and Space Medicine/Physiology today with @QinetiQ ! Current mood: 😁🤩🥳🤓✈️🚁🚀🩺💻📚

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 months

Celebrating an Anaesthetics/Northern offer. Got some big decisions to make over the next 48 hours but this feels like a huge weight lifted knowing I’ll be employed & near home, pending a CST rank/?offer tomorrow. 😷💊💉🥂 (PS This application cycle has aged me - what a mess!)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

There’s a lot to reflect on but; officially an astronaut reject. Hopefully they’ll still let me be a space doctor one day, though? 😎🤓👩🏻‍🚀 @esa @esaspaceflight

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

I passed my resit and I’M A FINAL YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT! Mere months, 3 placements, 2 electives, painstaking admin/applications & finals stand between me and being a clinician 😅😁🤓🥳👩🏼‍⚕️ Bring it on! #MedTwitter (and final year started today!)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Last day of placement as a medical student ever (hopefully!!). The past 6 years have certainly been a wild ride. Had to recreate the look for a day 1 comparison. 🩺🥼🥳 @QMULBartsTheLon

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Feeling official 💁‍♀️✈️🚁🚀🩺 #Elective #AerospaceMedicine #AerospacePhysiology

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

We got our certificates in the post today 👏😁 I have an MSc in astronaut health from @KingsCollegeLon ! 👩‍🚀🚀🩺👩🏼‍🎓 (honestly didn’t think I’d complete it considering 2020 world & personal events 💪) #SpacePhysiology #AerospaceMedicine @KclPhysiology @KCLAerospaceMed

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

4th year exams ✅ Dissertation hand-in ✅ Now for the summer holidays ☀️ (with a pinch of anxiety awaiting results…) It’s truly been an honour to get to work with experts at @NASA ’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer! It’s been a helluva learning curve 🧬🚀📝

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

She’s coming home 🙌🥳🙏 FINALLY a good outcome with this doctor job process after several rejections 😅 Mam get the kettle on 🥰👩🏼‍⚕️🥼🩺 #MedStudentTwitter #Oriel #DeaneryAllocation #FoundationProgramme

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Next challenge: Officially a Pilot Under Tuition, complete with logbook hours! Took my first passengers up today on a little jolly to Scarborough 👩‍✈️🛫🏖🛬😁 #StudentPilot #Cessna172

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Master’s in Space Physiology & Health - DONE 🚀🩺📝📚✅ Now onto my penultimate year of medical school...👩‍⚕️ (P.S. @NASA @FFDSpaceSuits @esaspaceflight - need me to test any Mars spacesuit gloves?) #SpacePhysiology #AerospaceMedicine #MSc #Dissertation

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

6 months

V proud to be first co-author (also known as et al 😉) on a review of blood clots during spaceflight and extrapolation to exploration class missions (getting to publish with a space surgery hero Dr Drudi is 🤩🤩🤩) 🚀🩸👩‍🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

I’ve been awarded not one but two @Aero_Med scholarships this year! One towards costs of my MSc in Space Physiology & Health @KCLAerospaceMed & one to present at #AsMA2021 in Denver, Colorado! 🚀🩺 Thank you!! 🥰🤩 #AerospaceMedicine (🤞 for U.K.➡️U.S. travel in August 😬)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

My friends are the sweetest and proudest. Did have a giggle though - can you imagine me whipping this out when hot desking as a junior doctor? Maybe stick it on the COW trolly during ward rounds? One day I might have a desk… 🤭😋🤣 #MedTwitter #StudentDebtSummedUp #JuniorDoctor

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

1 year

Passed my Advanced Life Support course today; exactly one year ago I failed a med school final exam. Now I can lead cardiac arrests. Persistence 💪💔❤️‍🩹🥳 @ResusCouncilUK

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

I’ve been selected to present at the @AeroSociety Aerospace Medicine Group Annual Symposium 2021 as part of the @NextGenAsM presentation competition, in London next month! Please come support me with some smiling faces in the audience 😁🚀✈️🚁🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

A true honour to get to speak at @AeroSociety ’s Aerospace Medicine Symposium today in London, about the lack of aviation medicine on the MBBS curriculum and medical considerations for rotary wing aircrew! 🚁🩺 (congratulations to @_LukeHughes_ on your award! 🚀👏)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Super excited that I’ve been selected to present at @IAC2021dubai @iafastro , fully sponsored by @ESA__Education ! Hoping travel will be allowed then 🤞Going to be presenting my @KCLAerospaceMed dissertation on Mars fieldwork performance when wearing an xEMU glove! 👩‍🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Reading materials ✅📚 Snacks ✅🥜 Operating on Houston time for the next 3 weeks ✅⏰ Thrilled to be starting the @UTMB_Aerospace Principles of Aviation & Space Medicine course today! Learning from doctors, scientists, astronauts - let’s do this! #AerospaceMedicine @utmbhealth

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Day 1 of doctoring has commenced!! #JuniorDoctor #TooManyLogIns

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

We won best presentation of the day!! @LaurenCSpace @Astrosurgery @Maia_Space @ChloeM_Med @sivrupanin 🚀🩺🎉 @ESA__Education @ArianeGroup @Dassault_OnAir @Positively_Spun #StudentAerospaceChallenge

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Had a cracking time at RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine observing aircrew health teaching/familiarisation; touring the labs; & catching up with team ASM! Thank you @Bonposselt @Positively_Spun @Dr_A_MacKay (+more) for your time & the goodies. Treasured more than you know ✈️🚀🚁🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Thank you so much @Aero_Med for funding my MSc in #SpaceMedicine and my ticket to #AsMA2021 - and congratulations to the other scholarship winners this year too!🙏🥳🤩✈️🚀 @RocketDocs

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Taking a break from med school finals to see the awe-inspiring @astro_timpeake ! Sat in the cheap seats so he didn’t hear me yell when he asked if anyone had applied to be an astronaut this selection. Hi Tim!! 👋🏻👩🏻‍🚀🚀🤩

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Had an incredible evening at @thephysoc ’s President Lecture and Awards Ceremony 2021 hosted at @theroyalsociety ! An absolute honour to receive an early career award for my space physiology research, alongside hugely inspirational physiologists including @astro_jessica ! 🤩

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

I won the Rob Clarke presentation award 🤩 Congratulations to all the entrants, the silver award winners, and especially to my fellow gold award winners.🥇👏 @KclPhysiology #SpacePhysiology #FuturePhysiology2020

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The Physiological Society

4 years

Congratulations to our Rob Clarke winners! The awards are given in recognition of outstanding undergraduate physiology projects. Our Gold award winners are: Rebecca Macpherson, Eleanor Smith, Aoife Slyne, Sean Kerr, Nina Purvis and Drusus Johnson-Bonson. 🥇 #futurephysiology2020

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

It’s safe to say I enjoyed my first flying lesson ✈️ #PPL #Aviation #FlyingLesson (also how impressive are flying instructors - I’m really in awe!)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Those Apollo missions, huh! Via r/DataIsBeautiful 🌚 #Altitude #Space #ApolloMissions

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

I’m president this year and plan on it being a good one with this being my final year of medical school!! 🙌✈️🚀🩺⚕️🤩

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@BLAerospaceMed

3 years

Getting geared up for another exciting academic year! Get your membership, come see us at the welcome fair on Wed 22nd September 1-4pm, and stay tuned for details on our first event of the year! ✈️🚀🩺 @officialblsa @QMULBartsTheLon #AerospaceMedicine #AvMed #SpaceMedicine

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Spending the last few days of my final year elective in Aviation and Space Medicine at the RAF High G Test Facility - observing some high g training and trials on the human centrifuge with the av med doc and physiologists! What a piece of kit! 💨🛫🚀 #AerospaceMedicine

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

1 year

Happy new year all! New year’s eve celebrations looking a lot different these days. Nightshift on trauma surgery. With added glam & fizz. Hope 2023 is good to you ✨

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Back up north for Christmas, reunited with my parents and it feels SO GOOD. 👨‍👩‍👧🎄✨

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Spending my Friday evening in very inspiring company as the 1st prize recipient of @SpaceMedIreland ’s 2021 essay prize bursary at their inaugural meeting! Thank you so much!! 🤩🚀🩺 #SpaceMedicine @lisa_mcnamee @IrishdocPhil @shawnapandya (my Irish gran would be proud!)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

I’m going to be speaking about space medicine at @UKSEDS #NSSC2020 next month, alongside some fantastic speakers including a keynote address from astronaut Dr Kathryn Sullivan 👩‍🚀🤩🚀 (thanks @LaurenCSpace for recommending me 🙌)

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

I’m presenting my Space Physiology & Health MSc literature review (no data this year, for obvious reasons) today AND tomorrow. Phew. I qualified for a #RobClarkeAbstractAward & am up for a presentation award too. Check it out: #FuturePhysiology2020 🚀🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

All our MSc in Space Physiology & Health exams are DONE! 🙌 We did it, ladies! Also may have referenced our own abstract in my answer - so meta 🤣 @LaurenCSpace @Maia_Space @Astrosurgery 📚📝🚀🩺 #spacemedicine @KclPhysiology @KCLAerospaceMed

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

A pleasure and honour speaking with @LaurenCSpace !! We are collating a list of space med opportunities through these slides; happy to share just send us a DM for the read-only link (and don’t laugh too much at the photos of us on the tilt table) 😁🚀🩺

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Our amazing workshop on Alternative Careers! We have talks on Space Med, Medical Education and Global Health!! 🌎🙌🏽 Join us for some more keynotes and workshops still to come!! 💙 @BapioYDF @BAPIOUK #meritconf2021

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

@garthnix my legs are complete (and all healed!) with my two favourite half sisters! 👯‍♀️🐕😼🗡🔔📚🤓 #Sabriel #Lirael #OldKingdom

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Promised myself that in my thirties I would be more adventurous & that I’d get a lotta exploring of 🌍 in after having my head in the ✨s. Hike up a volcano 🌋 Diving course 🤿 Lots of relaxing & good food🍹🥘 First annual leave from doctoring done right ✅

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Representing @RocketDocs during my crash on-call today! #AerospaceMedicine

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

1 year

Bit of a change from junior doctoring; getting picked up in a Bell 412 from a 7 star hotel and flying out into the desert! Getting some prehospital and extreme medicine experience covering the desert rally for the next 5 days with an excellent team! @FiaMedical 🚁👩🏼‍⚕️🏁

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

I am truly blown away by all of my peers presenting talks & posters this week, and just generally being the loveliest bunch of people! Aerospace medicine has a very bright future 🥰🤩🚀✈️🚁🩺🥼 #AsMA2022

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Finally on my way to @Aero_Med #AsMA22 ! Got to ride the new Lizzy line. No more exams. 3 seats to myself on the 11 hour flight. Passed the PSA (missed the 1st sit and only had one shot to pass before graduation 🥵💊). Today is a better day than lately. ✈️➡️🇺🇸

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Sign up for this free aerospace medicine conference run by medical schools across the U.K.! It’s going to be a day full of exciting talks and a poster competition with prizes (taking abstract submissions soon). See you there! 🚀✈️🚁🩺

@BLAerospaceMed

Barts and The London Aerospace Medicine Society

@BLAerospaceMed

2 years

🛸 For the first time ever, Aviation & Space Medicine university societies across the UK are teaming up to bring you a FREE national conference: The Final Frontier 🚁 Sign up via this google form & prepare for take off! ✈️ 26th February 2022 9-4 GMT

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Our consultant booked for the ice cream van to visit at lunch time and offered to pay. Legendary behaviour. 🍦🚐

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Speaking at @ukseds #NSSC2020 this morning about taking care of humans in space and how to get involved in this exciting field! Thank you for all the thought-provoking questions afterwards 🤓 Getting over my fear of public speaking one conference at a time 😁🚀🩺👩‍🚀 #WomenOfNSSC

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

We ( @ChloeM_Med + @paraboladies ) are presenting our work on mitigation of the effects of acceleration today at the 13th Suborbital Day! Sadly cannot be in Paris this year but still excited! @ArianeGroup @ESA__Education @Dassault_OnAir #StudentAerospaceChallenge @Positively_Spun

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Obligatory @sciencemuseum Christmas jumper profile picture 🪐🚀🎄🧶 #NewProfilePic

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Thank you for the snap @astro_medic ! There in spirit and saving my scholarship money for next year 🤞🚀🩺 #AsMA2021 @Aero_Med

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

First day on anaesthetics and I’ve been won over 😳😷👀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Attending the U.K. aerospace medicine event of the year 🎉🚀✈️🩺 Look at that agenda! 🤩 #AerospaceMedicineSymposium2020 @AeroSociety @RAeSCareers @RAeSSpaceECS

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Ready to present at @BIS_spaceflight this afternoon! How slick is this Online conference platform? @Orbits_Live #YurisNight #CosmonauticsDay 🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Why Space? The Opportunity for Health and Life Science Innovation, has now launched at the 2021 UK Space Life and Biomedical Science Annual Symposium. You can read the paper here #SpaceLABS2021 🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Attending the inaugural @SpaceMedAbdn conference this weekend - a fantastic mix of keynotes, sessions, workshops, and social activities! 🎉🚀🩺 #SpaceABZ21

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

5 years

After deferring my end-of-year exams to late summer because of personal loss and new diagnoses of disabilities...I got my results today and I’ve passed 3rd year!! What a SLOG. Brighter times ahead; time to concentrate on my passion then come back to my MBBS revitalised ✨🚀👩🏼‍⚕️

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Dare to dream!! “We are seeking to expand gender diversity in our ranks”! 😏👩‍🚀🚀 #Astronaut

@esa

European Space Agency

3 years

For the first time in 11 years, we're looking for new #astronauts . Media representatives are invited to a virtual press event on Tuesday, 16 February, to learn more about these exciting vacancies 👉 #YourWayToSpace #ESArecruits

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Pre-graduation celebratory meal at @OblixRestaurant @TheShardLondon (isn’t my mam lush 😇) 🥂🏙

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Best of luck to my colleagues today presenting their faux project designs/grant proposals (in lieu of a research project) today! I was first up so can relax and enjoy them all now 🙈🤩🚀✈️ @KclPhysiology @KCLAerospaceMed #AerospaceMedicine #AerospacePhysiology

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Attending the Foundation Skills in Surgery course today at @LeedsHospitals ! @ASiTofficial 😁😷 #SurgicalTraining #ElectivePrep

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

It’s my birthday and today was a med school end of 4th year 4 hour SBA 🥲 hoping the gift is that I passed! OSCEs tomorrow… #BirthdayExams 🥳📚🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

We won a national award from @UKSEDS and I couldn’t be prouder of us! 🥰🚀👩‍🚀🩺💁‍♀️

@paraboladies

The Paraboladies

4 years

So honoured to have won the @UKSEDS Project of the Year National Award for our work on preflight checks for space tourists! How exciting!! Thank you to anyone who voted for us 🙏🚀🙌r✨

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

1 year

Delighted my application for Associate Fellowship of @Aero_Med has been accepted! It’s cool to have achievements & contributions acknowledged; & it’s hopefully a place to foster next steps of us early career budding aerospace medics. Looking forward to getting involved! 🙌🚀🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

My MSc library project was accepted as a poster presentation for #AsMA2021 😁 Hopefully travel (or virtual presentation) is allowed! 🎉🚀🩺 #SpaceMedicine #SpaceSurgery @KclPhysiology @KCLAerospaceMed @Aero_Med

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

My grandad died way before I was born. Today I found out he trained as air crew in the @RoyalAirForce during WWII! Found this old letter tucked away in a book. I had no idea. He developed T1DM later & became a miner. I guess I have aviation roots after all ✈️ #AviationHistory

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 months

Chuffed to have received such an important and generous scholarship from @Aero_Med to attend their annual meeting in Chicago later this year. Thank you!! Can’t wait! 🚀🩺

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@Aero_Med

AsMA

3 months

Meet our scholarship winners and new Associate Fellows, and take a moment to read about the passing of respected Emeritus member and Fellow of AsMA, Dr. Jay A. Danforth. 🕊️ Plus, the Wing reminds us...our 95th Annual Meeting is just 5 wk away! Visit:

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

When your high school physics teacher (Hi Mr Close-Ash!) asks an astronaut a question on here…and they reply with your article! 🥺😁🤓🚀⚕️ @Cmdr_Hadfield @mountainenergy

@theexpedleader

Will Close-Ash FRGS 🇺🇦🇬🇧

@theexpedleader

2 years

@Cmdr_Hadfield Hi Chris, a year 10 student of mine has asked the question, can you have surgery in space? What do you think?

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Super excited for the @UTMB_Aerospace PASM course this summer after meeting the course coordinators & future course mates this evening at their faculty, alumni & student appreciation reception! Thanks for the hospitality!! 🚀✈️🩺🥼

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

I’m presenting as part of my hospital’s elderly care teaching series tomorrow and of course I managed to squeeze some space medicine in. With much inspiration from @KclPhysiology ’s Prof Harridge!

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Paris bound for the 1st International Conference of Aerospace Medicine @2022Icam ! Pray for free passage of the poster tube as hand luggage, because this gal cannot afford to put it in the hold 👀😅🚀✈️🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Rites of Passage ceremony 📜🎓👩🏼‍⚕️ 📍: St. Paul’s Cathedral 📸: Gary Schwartz #DeclarationOfGeneva @QMULBartsTheLon @BartsTheLonAlum @officialblsa

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Last day at home adventure with my parents! Back to the reality of impending med school finals tomorrow 🌅✨

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Virtually attending the @DLR_en :envihab #HumanPhysiologyWorkshop2020 . A whole day of space physiology 🤓 - such a great line-up of talks!! 🚀🏃‍♀️🛏🏋️‍♀️ @esaspaceflight

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Got to present my design & testing of an aerospace medicine guidelines app at @AMEE_Online #AMEE2021 this weekend! Just a bit of fun to practise making an app and learn more about #AvMed ! #DigitalHealth #AerospaceMedicine @LTBePosters

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Attending the @UCL Space Health and Disaster Risk Reduction symposium today!! Lots of interesting sessions plus a keynote from an astronaut-clinician! @MylesHarrisMH @Astrosurgery @fred_the_med @RobertThirsk 👏🚀🩺📺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Thank you! 😁🚀🩺🙏

@NASA

NASA

3 years

@sivrupanin Congrats, Nina! We're rooting for you! 🥳🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Can we all take a second to appreciate this 10:3 female to male ratio of membership in my medical school’s Aerospace Medicine Society @BLAerospaceMed ! Our whole committee is female too. 😁🤩✈️🚀🩺 @NextGenAsM @WomenAeroMed @woaaofficial @WIA_Europe #AerospaceMedicine

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

*60/180 credits of our #SpacePhysiology MSc done! I’ve really enjoyed this topic & am excited to talk about it in our presentations, & then w/ the wider #aerospacemedicine community at @Aero_Med #asma2020 ! 👩‍🚀👩‍⚕️🚀🔴 #Surgeonaut #YesThatsAThingNow

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

End of the first week on a high! 🚀

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Reading materials ✅📚 Snacks ✅🥜 Operating on Houston time for the next 3 weeks ✅⏰ Thrilled to be starting the @UTMB_Aerospace Principles of Aviation & Space Medicine course today! Learning from doctors, scientists, astronauts - let’s do this! #AerospaceMedicine @utmbhealth

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Excited to be Vice President of my medical school’s Aerospace Medicine Society this coming academic year! Follow us for updates, and hopefully see you at events or online in 20/21! ✈️🚀🩺 #BLAMS

@BLAerospaceMed

Barts and The London Aerospace Medicine Society

@BLAerospaceMed

4 years

🩺🚀 Congratulations to our committee for 2020/21 🚀🩺 Thank you to everyone that stood in the elections and to everyone that voted! Follow us for updates on our society events & activities, and sharing of news & opportunities from the field of aerospace medicine! #BLAMS

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

So glad our hard work planning paid off, massive kudos to the team facilitating the day! A fantastic speaker line-up, 300 sign-ups, & student competition. The interest in the ASM field from medical students has blown me away! Excited to watch the recordings after finals 👏🚁✈️🚀

@BLAerospaceMed

Barts and The London Aerospace Medicine Society

@BLAerospaceMed

2 years

We would like to say thank you & congratulations to all attendees, speakers and co-organising student societies on the success of the first National Undergraduate Aerospace Medicine conference this past weekend! It was a pleasure to be part of it. ✈️🚀🚁🙌

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Spent the evening preparing my stack for @ThePhySoc #FuturePhysiology2021 next week! Detailing my project design of testing EMU gloves for Mars missions & inc. my YouTube premiere which may be swiftly deleted afterwards 😅🚀👩‍🚀 #MScSpacePhysiology @LTBePosters

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The Physiological Society

3 years

Registration for #FuturePhysiology2021 closes tomorrow! The online conference will explore what we have learnt from challenges brought by the pandemic, and how we can apply this to better our lifestyles in the future. Register today >

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

2 years

Having the best time at #ICAM2022 . Excellent talks but even more importantly - excellent people!! (Also Paris is a bit special ✨) @2022Icam

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

3 years

Hey thanks Yorkshire Print & Stitch for this very unexpected free sample left for me at the SU - being President has its perks apparently 😮✈️🚀🩺

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Dr Nina Purvis (she/her)

4 years

Started prep reading for my MSc dissertation (now a project design/grant application thanks to covid-19). But how exciting does “An analogue space mission to investigate the biomechanical/physiological implications of a spacesuit for Mars” sound?! 🙏🚀🔴👩‍🚀

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