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		UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Pacific Chapter 2008 Conference Faculty


		Matthew S. Berry, MD, FACP, FAAEP has lectured internationally on various aspects of underwater medicine. He received his M.D. from Tufts Medical School in 1986 and 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 faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is Kaiser Permanente's Resource Physician for Underwater & Hyperbaric Medicine, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA and the Vice President of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians. He is also a NAUI Dive Instructor, an avid underwater photographer and has won international photography competitions. He received NAUI's 2005 Charlie Brown Memorial Award for his volunteer service to the diving community. Dr. Berry is the current Executive Director and a past President (2001) of UHMS-Pacific Chapter.


		Kevin Corson, CHT


		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 - The Pacific Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is honored to award Dr. Hart the 2008 Merrill P. Spencer award for Significant Contributions to the Advancement of Undersea Science and Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Hart 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 and practiced optometry in Houston, Texas for several years. He received his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1981, completed two years of General Surgery followed by three years of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Hermann Hospital and M.D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute in Houston. Dr. Henderson has been in private otolaryngology practice in the San Francisco Bay Area since completing his residency in 1986. He was in hyperbaric medicine in the Bay Area for 10 years. He is board-certified in Optometry, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. He has been an active diver since 1970 and lectures nationally and internationally on otolaryngologic problems related to diving.


		James Holm, MD, FACEP 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 a Past-President (2005) of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter.
		Karl E. Huggins, PhD, 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.



		Dr. Steven Kirtland, MD received his MD from the University of California, San Diego in 1986, and completed his residency in Internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center where he also served as Chief Resident. Subsequently, he was a pulmonary-critical care fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Disorders Medicine and Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Kirtland currently practices Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Disorder Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. He is the Deputy Director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle.


		Stuart Miller, MD practices Hyperbaric Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA

		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 lectured internationally on hyperbaric and wound care topics, and has won several abstract presentation awards. Dick is the Secretary of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter.


		Rob Sheffield, CHTis Director of Education for International ATMO. He started his career in hyperbaric medicine in 1985. His experience includes direct patient care and management in several hyperbaric facilities, both monoplace and multiplace. He has experience with design, implementation, technical support, and reimbursement support of several wound/hyperbaric centers. He has been actively involved in hyperbaric education since 1987, serving on the faculty of several training courses and seminars. He developed the first training course for hyperbaric safety directors and the first certification review course for CHT/CHRN exam candidates. He currently Chairs the National Fire Protection Association Technical Committee on Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Facilities; and is the Chairman of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Hyperbaric Oxygen Safety Committee.
		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.

		Tabby Stone, MD, is a past president of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter (1999). He practices Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Panorama City and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at USC. He developed an interest in diving medicine following his initial dive certification in 1979. He lectures to both divers and medical audiences on diving topics and was the author of the Medical Facts column in Discover Diving from 1988 to 1999.
		Michael Strauss, MD, FACS is Director of the Baromedical Department, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He is an internationally recognized expert on wound healing. He is the recipient of the 2003 Carolyn Sue Ray Memorial Award in recognition of excellence in hyperbaric medicine, original research and it's impact on patient care.


		Tom Workman, MS, CAsP, CHT is the director, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs for the UHMS and is responsible for the development and management of the Clinical Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Program. He retired from the USAF as a Colonel after 23 years of service devoted to aerospace and hyperbaric physiology. Mr. Workman is the immediate past Chairman of the National Fire Protection Association's Technical Committee for Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Facilities and Chairman of the Medical Systems Subcommittee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pressure Vessel for Human Occupancy Technical Committee and a board member of the NBDHMT. He received the Craig Hoffman Memorial Award for his contributions to diving safety, has more than 130 publications and presentation , including editorship of Hyperbaric Facility Safety: A Practical Guide. He is board certified by the Aerospace Medical Association in Aerospace Physiology and by the NBDHMT.
		Dr. Richard Vann received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in 1976. He has spent a career in environmental physiology or operational diving with particular emphasis on understanding the physiology of decompression sickness (DCS) and on developing procedures to avoid DCS. Dr. Vann has been a Navy Diving Officer, and has done studies for NASA.
		John Zhang, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurosurgery, Physiology & Pharmacology and Chief of Physiology, Director of Physiology Graduate Program at Loma Linda University
		Wayne M. Zhang, MD is a Vascular Surgeon at Loma Linda University