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Safety and Technical Correspondents

James Bell, CHT, EMT

James Bell Jim has over 25 years experience in the operation and maintenance of multiplace hyperbaric chambers. He served as safety director and lead hyperbaric technologist at Hennepin County Medical Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA for over 15 years. He assumed a similar position within the LDS Hospital System in Salt Lake City in early 2007. Jim is a certified hyperbaric technologist, and an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society facility accreditation surveyor.

 

Dick Clarke, CHT

Dick ClarkeDick is President of National Baromedical Services, which he founded in 1986. His previous background included service in the British Royal Navy, diving instructor and underwater photographer, assistant director of the seabed habitat 'HydroLab' and several years in the offshore commercial diving industry. Dick heads the Baromedical Research Foundation where he serves as Principal Investigator for several international clinical trials. He is course director for 'Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine' and the 'HBO 2000' series of advanced hyperbaric symposia. Dick has been a NOAA Diving Medical Officer Training Course faculty member since 1983. He pioneered the Certification in Hyperbaric Technology (CHT) program, is a past president of the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology and remains active at the committee level within the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

P. Owen Doar III, B.S.

Owen Doar Owen graduated from Baptist College at Charleston, in South Carolina, in 1969. He then moved slightly north to North Carolina, and Duke University Medical Center. Initially employed as a hyperbaric research technician, Owen moved up the administrative and technical framework to his present position as a manager of F.C. Hall Laboratory, one of the premier international hypobaric and hyperbaric facilities. Owens’s modest printed resume belies an expertise and knowledge base second to none. He certified as a hyperbaric technologist soon after the inception of the CHT program, is an associate member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and appears as a co-author in several publications that address physiologic responses to hyperbaric environments.

Stephen John Goble

Stephen John GobleSteve has held the position of head hyperbaric technical officer at Royal Adelaide Hospital, in Adelaide, Australia, since 1985. He arrived in Adelaide by way of the British Royal Navy (Clearance Diver) and the offshore commercial diving industry. Steve is a founding member of the Hyperbaric Technicians and Nurses Association (HTNA) and edits their journal (‘Offgassing’). Steve is closely associated with, and intimately involved in, HIMS (Hyperbaric Incident Monitoring Study), and is extensively published on topics ranging from technical and safety issues, standards, incident reporting and decompression accidents.

Stacy Handley, RN, BSN, ACHRN, CWCN, CHT

Stacy HandleyStacy is Vice President of National Baromedical Services. She assumed her present position following several years as nurse manager of the NBS hyperbaric medicine service at Memorial Hospital, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Stacy oversees the patient care aspects of the NBS network, conducts quality assurance and compliance assessments and preceptors all new NBS nurse managers. Additional responsibilities include marketing and promotion of NBS service lines and generation of monthly safety notices. Stacy is Member at Large for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Associates and a board member for the Baromedical Nurses Association. She has trained as a Hyperbaric Safety Director and a UHMS faculty accreditation surveyor, and is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina ‘Wound Care Specialty Course’ through which she obtained her wound care certification

Claude Wreford-Brown, ACHRN

Claude Wreford-BrownClaude is the clinical manager of the hyperbaric medicine department at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. Claude is active within the Baromedical Nurses Association, and is a past president. He contributed chapters to the Baromedical Nursing textbook and is an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society facility accreditation surveyor. Claude has attended both the Hyperbaric Safety Director training course and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Diving Medical Officer Course.