Jeffrey P. Sutton

Jeffrey P. Sutton, M.D., Ph.D.
Occupation	CEO, National Space Biomedical Research Institute Director, Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Website	http://nsbri.org/about/directors-message/ https://www.bcm.edu/centers/space-medicine/directors-message

CEO, National Space Biomedical Research Institute

http://nsbri.org/about/directors-message/

Jeffrey P. Sutton, M.D., Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer, President and Institute Director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the mission of NSBRI is to lead a national effort in biomedical research necessary to support the long-term human exploration of space and to enhance life on Earth by applying the resultant advances in human knowledge and technology. In addition to his leadership of NSBRI, Sutton holds the Friedkin Chair for Research in Sensory System Integration and Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), where he is the founding Director and a tenured Professor in the Center for Space Medicine.

Sutton was born in Manhattan, New York City, raised in Toronto and received his education and residency training at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. He studied mathematics and physics prior to earning his M.D. (1982), M.Sc. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988, theoretical physics) degrees. Sutton is a certified specialist and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Sutton practiced emergency and family medicine, and conducted research in neuropsychiatry and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in Toronto, Canada, prior to moving in 1988 to Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a Clinical Fellow at Harvard, Sutton expanded his medical expertise in psychiatry and neurology, including child specialization. In parallel, he conducted research within Harvard's Laboratory of Neurophysiology and was a Visiting Scientist in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. In 1991, Sutton joined the Harvard faculty as a clinician-scientist and subsequently became the founding Director of the Neural Systems Group at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The Neural Systems Group integrates functional brain imaging with computational modeling, teaching and patient care of adults and children with a spectrum of complex brain disorders. In 1995, Sutton became an affiliate faculty member in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, focusing on research related to neural networks in health and disease. His laboratory’s advances include the theoretical prediction, and subsequent confirmation by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), of multi-scale embedded cortical networks; novel algorithms for autonomous image segmentation and classification; dynamic systems for state-dependent cognition and motor learning; hierarchical and autonomous system reconfiguration; smart medical sensor-effector integration; and use of simultaneous fMRI and electroencephalography capabilities for human brain mapping during sleep. The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (including a Scientist Development Award), Department of Defense and private foundations. The discoveries gave rise to a portfolio of intellectual property and three spin-off companies.

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