Career
Fisher was graduated from Stanford University in 1968, and later served as an Instructor in Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland. He attended medical school at the University of Florida, graduating in 1975. After medical school, Fisher completed a surgical residency from 1975 to 1977 at UCLA's Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. He entered private practice in emergency medicine from 1977 to 1980, and was an Instructor in Emergency Medicine at the University of South Florida. He also attended graduate school at the University of Houston from 1978 to 1980, and received a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980. He was accepted as a NASA Astronaut in 1980.
He has logged over 2,000 hours in prop, rotary-wing, jet aircraft and spacecraft.
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