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		UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Pacific Chapter 2009 Conference Faculty


		Douglas Duane Backous, MD, FACS is the Neurotologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center and is the Director or the Listen for Life Center at Virginia Mason Medical Center. He has a recreational dive certification and enjoys the challenges of managing complex patients with baromedical issues.

		Matthew S. Berry, MD, FACP, FAAEP 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 Emergency Medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, West Los Angeles and is Kaiser Permanente's Resource Physician for Underwater & Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Berry is on faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. 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.

		Jeff Bozanic, PhD holds a BS in Geology, an MBA in International Marketing and a Ph.D. in Education. Jeff Bozanic is an extremely active diver and instructor. He is the author of the seminal textbook Mastering Rebreathers, and has performed consulting work for many rebreather manufacturers. He has served on advisory boards for TDI, NAUI, and IANTD on rebreather training and standards development. In addition to this expertise, Jeff is an active diving scientist, having conducted research around the globe. Jeff is the recipient of many diving awards, including the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year.


		John M. Corman, MD has been on staff at Virginia Mason for 10 years having completed his residency in Urology at UCLA. Dr. Corman serves as the Medical Director of the Virginia Mason Cancer Institute and is an associate clinical professor of Urology at the University of Washington. His research interests focus on prostate cancer tumor immunology and immunotherapy.


		Richard Dunford, MS, CHT is a Research Analyst for the Divers Alert Network. His principle role is management of DAN’s decompression databases and analysis of decompression risk including the Project Dive Exploration. He is also an expert in field detection of decompression induced vascular bubbles using Doppler monitoring. Prior to joining DAN in 2008, Richard managed the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center for 31 years where he also reviewed and consulted on over 1,200 cases of decompression sickness. He has authored scientific and technical articles on the epidemiology of decompression risk and spoken through the United States on the subject of decompression safety.


		Mark A. Gresham serves as the PSI/PCI Corporate Executive Officer. He is an outstanding instructor for cylinder inspectors, eddy current technicians, SCUBA valve service technicians and cylinder oxygen cleaning. Mark is an on-going consultant to NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, NASA Critical Systems, cylinder manufacturers and the fire fighting industry. Mark annually trains personnel at the US chemical weapons facilities nationwide. He has co-authored the 5^th edition of Inspecting Cylinders. A highly skilled technical diver, Mark has over 30 years diving experience. He is a trained cylinder hydrostatic requalifier. Mark supervises more than 75 PSI/PCI affiliate instructors and day to day operations at the PSI/PCI Woodinville, Washington home office

		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.

		James Holm, MD, FACEP is currently an Attending Physician at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. Dr. Holm 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, 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. Karl Huggins is the current secretary of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter


		Edmond Kay, MD, FAAFP "doc" was a field medic with the U. S. Marines in Vietnam (1968), receiving a Purple Heart. He received his B.S. (Summa Cum Lauda) from UCSD and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his Diving and Hyperbaric training at NOAA in 1988. For the last 23 years doc has been a Board Certified Family Physician devoted to the practice of Family Medicine and Diving Medicine in Seattle. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Diving Medical Officer for the University of Washington, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Medical Director of the Divers Institute in Seattle. Dr. Kay authored the first Diving Medicine web site, which is now in its seventh year of continuous operation. Doc is also past president of the King County Academy of Family Physicians. He is currently a regional diving medical consultant for DAN and has been diving for 30 years.


		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. Dr. Kirtland is the current President of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter.

		Stuart Miller, MD practices Hyperbaric Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA. He is the President-Elect of the UHMS-Pacific Chapter.

		Richard Moon, MD has spent his career at Duke University Medical Center, since 1979. After training in internal medicine in Toronto he completed a fellowship in pulmonary medicine & critical care and then an anesthesia residency at Duke, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. He is Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine, staff anesthesiologist and Medical Director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology. He has also served as President of the UHMS and consultant to the Divers Alert Network. He co-chairs the UHMS Decompression Illness Committee. His research interests include pulmonary physiology and medicine in diving and at altitude.

		Robert Perkins MD, MPH spent 8 years as a U.S. Navy Diving Medical Officer, most recently as the Head of Biomedical Research at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (2006-2008). He is board certified in Occupational Medicine and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He received his MD degree from the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD in 1998, his master’s degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2001, and completed his Occupational Medicine residency at Duke University in 2002. He has worked as an on-call physician for the Divers Alert Network and as a guest instructor for both the U.S. Navy and NOAA dive schools. He currently works for the Boeing Company

		J. Benjamin Slade, MD is currently a staff physician at the Northbay Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, and a member of Baromedical Associates, a hyperbaric physician group in northern California. Prior to his Air Force retirement in 1997, he was the medical director of the Clinical (multiplace) Hyperbaric Facility, and served briefly as the Chief of Staff at David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base in northern California. UHMS involvement includes Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair, member of the Board of Directors, Vice-Chair of the Education Committee, and member of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Membership Committees. He has numerous publications and has co-authored several book chapters.

		Claude Wreford-Brown ACHRN, Manager of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center directs the coordination of patient care for the center. He is the past president of the Baromedical Nurses Association and chair of the association’s research committee. He is a surveyor for the accreditation office of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. He has authored various publications on hyperbaric medicine. He is course director and faculty member in the Virginia Mason Introductory Course to Hyperbaric Medicine.