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		UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Pacific Chapter 2005 Conference Faculty

		John Alexander, MD is an internationally recognized pioneer in Hyperbaric Medicine. He founded the Northridge Hyperbaric Chamber in 1984, and remained it's medical director until 2000. He is the 2005 recipient of the Merrill P. Spencer Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contribution to the advancement of undersea science and hyperbaric medicine.

		Matthew S. Berry, MD, FACP, FAAEP has lectured internationally on various aspects of underwater medicine. After receiving his M.D. from Tufts Medical School in 1986, he completed his post-graduate training at LAC-USC Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Berry is board certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine. He practices medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, West Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is the Kaiser Permanente Resource Physician for Underwater Hyperbaric Medicine, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA and is on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Berry is also a NAUI Dive Instructor, an avid underwater photographer and has won international photographic competitions. He is the current Executive Director and a past President (2001) of the Pacific Chapter UHMS.

		Dick Clarke, CHT is program director of the hyperbaric medicine program at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, S.C. He is president of National Baromedical Services (NBS), and has consulted with DAN and in helped to establish in 1996 the Diving Preferred Provider Network, a network of hyperbaric chambers dedicated to high-quality care. Mr. Clarke serves as editor of the "Hyperbaric Medicine Update" newsletter from NBS. Among Mr. Clarke's many other professional duties include being a faculty member of both the NOAA/UHMS Diving Medical Officer's Course and director of the busiest diving and clinical hyperbaric medicine training program in North America. He is the recipient of the 2002 DAN America award.

		David Cobb, MD is accomplished in infectious diseases, wound care, internal medicine and hyperbaric medicine. He is Medical Director for Wound Care, Hyperbaric Medicine at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr. Cobb received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical School, University of Health Science Center. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Medical College and did his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia Affiliated Hospitals Program. Dr. Cobb is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He and his wife Kate enjoy the company of their plethora of children spending spare moments in the great Colorado outdoors.

		Neil Hampson, MD has served as Medical Director of the Virginia Mason Hyperbaric Department since 1989. Dr. Hampson was educated in hyperbaric medicine during his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Duke University, site of the largest civilian hyperbaric treatment facility in the United States. Dr. Hampson subsequently received advanced training in diving accident management from NOAA. He is the current President of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) and the former Chairman of the UHMS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee. Dr. Hampson is an internationally recognized authority in the area of carbon monoxide poisoning.

		George Hart, MD is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of hyperbaric medicine. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine, former Chief of Surgery at the Naval Regional Medical Centers in Corpus Christi, TX and Long Beach, CA. He is the Director Emeritus of Barometric Medicine at Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach. Dr. Hart was won numerous awards in recognition of his pioneering work in Hyperbaric medicine. He has worked with several government, university and hospital programs, including serving as the medical advisor for NASA's Skylab Project from 1969-1972.
		Lorre Henderson, OD, MD, FACS completed Optometry School at the University of Houston in 1976. He received his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1981, followed by a five-year residency in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Hermann Hospital and M.D. Anderson Tumor Institute in Houston. Dr. Henderson has been in otolaryngology private practice since 1986 and practicing HBO since 1995 in the San Francisco bay area. Dr. Henderson is the President-Elect of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter

		George Hertner, MD, FACEM received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha in 1998 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina. He is in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine at Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a frequent lecturer on various topics in Hyperbaric Medicine and Emergency Medicine.

		James Holm, MD, FACEP is the Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medicine Department at Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1985, and completed a combined residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Northwestern University in 1989, where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Holm is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine. He has been on the faculty for the Divers Alert Network's Diving Medicine Courses since 2003. Additionally Dr. Holm is both a NAUI and PADI Diving Instructor. Dr. Holm is the President of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter.

		Karl E. Huggins, BS, MS has been the program manager for the Catalina Hyperbaric Facility at the USC Wrigley Science Center since 1992. He began diving in 1977 and has been a NAUI Instructor since 1980. He is noted for his work in decompression theory and models, which resulted in the Michigan Sea Grant (HUGI) tables and his participation in the development of the EDGE dive computer. Karl is the recipient of the Leonard Greenstone Diving Safety Award and the DAN/Rolex Diver of the year for 1993.

		Steven Katz, PhD, received his doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Canada in Zoology & Biomechanics in 1992. This was followed by Mellon & NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowships Respiratory Physiology and Bioengineering at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California from 1993 to 1998. He was a Research Associate in microfluidics and microscopic imaging research at Duke University, Durham, N.C. from 1998 to 2000. Dr. Katz has been the Coordinator for Monitoring and Evaluation for Salmon Recovery for NOAA Fisheries Service (=NMFS) for the Pacific Northwest from 2001 to the present. He is also the Unit Diving Supervisor for the NMFS Diving Program in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Katz also supervises NOAA’s only operational rebreather program and is co-author and co-instructor of the NOAA Dive Program curriculum for training in use of semi-closed circuit rebreathers.
		Bruce Misare, MD received his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. General Surgery residency was undertaken at the Deaconess/Harvard Surgical Service in Boston, Massachusetts. During his residency, Bruce spent two years as a research fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. After completing general surgical training, Dr. Misare completed a two year vascular surgical fellowship also at the Deaconess/Harvard Surgical Service. He is currently board certified in vascular surgery. Since completing training, Dr. Misare has been in private practice. He initially practiced at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This was followed by a brief period of practice at the Gundersen Clinic in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. For the last five years, Bruce has been a private practice vascular surgeon in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Interests include distal pedal bypass for limb salvage and endovascular surgical techniques.

		Ralph Potkin MD is the medical director of the Beverly Hills Center for Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Potkin is a highly respected physician in the medical community with over twenty years of experience in internal medicine, critical care, pulmonary diseases and hyperbaric medicine. Dr. Potkin was clinical chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles until 1999. Dr. Potkin is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. He is certified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association in hyperbaric medicine and is a member of the College of Hyperbaric Medicine. He has been involved in hyperbaric medicine since 1981, directing patient care and clinical research.

		Dick Sample, RCP, RRT, CHT began working in hyperbaric medicine in 1983 after a ten-year career as a respiratory care practitioner specializing in adult critical care and management. He has been employed at Loma Linda University Medical Center, a 900-bed level 1 trauma center in southern California since 1973. In 1990 he became technical director and in 2003 safety director. Dick is a licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner, Registered Respiratory Therapist and Certified Hyperbaric Technician. He is a member of the American Association for Respiratory Care, California Society for Respiratory Care, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Hyperbaric Technicians and Nurses Association, Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, and currently serves on the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Associates Executive Board where he also acts as Scientific Program Chairperson. He has presented research papers on hyperbaric and wound care topics at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Australia and has won several abstract presentation awards.

		J. Benjamin Slade, MD is currently the Associate Medical Director for Hyperbaric Medicine at three northern California hospitals, based at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, CA, and works part time in the Center for Wound Care at Vaca Valley Hospital in Vacaville, CA. He is board certified in Family Practice and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. A member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), Dr. Slade is currently the chairman of the Membership Committee, and serves as a member of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Education Committees. He is past-President of the Pacific Coast Chapter of the UHMS. He is a frequent speaker on hyperbaric medicine-related topics, and has multiple publications.