San Francisco Institute for Hyperbaric Medicine

San Francisco Institute
for Hyperbaric Medicine

Science

The Institute has selected a distinguished International Scientific Advisory Board. The purpose of the Board is to recommend to the Director the clinical areas to be studied and their priority. The field of Hyperbaric Medicine is vast and the number of prospective, randomized and controlled trials small. The decision as to what should be studied initially is a major concern of the Institute. All of the members are well known in the field of Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) therapy and have volunteered to serve without compensation.

	Dirk Jan Bakker, MD. PhD Dr. Bakker is Professor (Emeritus) of Surgery, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He recently retired from the position of Medical Director, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He is the founding Executive Director of the International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine and Senior Editor of the book “Hyperbaric Surgery, Perioperative Care”. Dr. Bakker has been active in the field of Hyperbaric Medicine since his residency in 1969. He trained under Professor Boerema who is considered the “Father” of modern clinical hyperbaric medicine. Dr. Bakker is the acknowledged international authority on the use of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen in the management of necrotizing soft-tissue infections.
	Michael Bennett MB BS, FANZCA, MM(Clin Epi), DipDHM, MD Dr. Bennett is a general Anaesthetist and Hyperbaric Physician with a strong interest in clinical epidemiology. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Hyperbaric Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Highly committed to evidence-based practice, he has recently completed a project to make available a critically appraised database of all randomised controlled evidence in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine and to summarise this evidence in a series of Cochrane reviews. Dr. Bennett is an experienced educator, co-directing the undergraduate quality medical practice program at UNSW, teaching critical appraisal at POWH and is the convener of the annual Australia and New Zealand Hyperbaric Medicine Group Introductory Course in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.
	John J. Feldmeier, DO Dr. John J. Feldmeier is currently Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology at the Medical University of Ohio, Toledo Ohio and a member of Toledo Radiation Oncology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology. He is board certified in both Radiation Oncology and Hyperbaric Medicine and holds the distinction of being the only physician certified in both specialties. Dr. Feldmeier is the Chairman of the Research Committee of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). He is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Society’s Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee. He serves as the Review Editor for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal. He is a member at large of the Board of Directors of the UHMS and a past recipient of the Society’s Paul Bert and Stover-Link Awards. He is also a past recipient of the Edgar End Award from the Gulf Coast Chapter of the UHMS. He is President-elect of the Midwest Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.
not pictured	Stephen Guthrie, MD, PhD Dr. Guthrie is a Board Certified General Surgeon and Plastic Surgeon as well as holding a Ph.D. in Physiology prior to starting Medical School. All of his education has been at the University of Wisconsin. For the past decade he has pioneered the concept of treating retroviruses, primarily HIV and Hepatitis C with Hyperbaric Medicine. He is the Founder and President of Designed Altobaric Technologies based in Detroit, Michigan. He has extensive experience in clinical hyperbaric medicine as well.
not pictured	Tom Hunt, MD Chairperson Dr. Hunt is Professor (Emeritus) of Surgery at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. Thomas Hunt, alias “TK,” was born in Chicago and received his BA and MD degrees from Harvard. He served his surgical internship and residency in the University of Oregon. He has served as Professor of Surgery and director of the wound healing laboratory at the University of California San Francisco since 1965, and is the author of over 400 papers largely on wound healing. Dr. Hunt has received honorary degrees from The University of Lund (Sweden), The University of Turku (Finland), and is an honorary member of The Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow. He also was the founding President of the Wound Healing Society.
not pictured	Folke Lind, MD Sweden
	Paul J. Sheffield, PhD Dr. Paul J Sheffield is an original founder and President of International ATMO, Inc of San Antonio, Texas. He received his BS in Chemistry from University of Florida, and his MS and PhD in Physiology from the University of Southern California. As a US Air Force Aerospace Physiologist he served in positions of education, research, and management of hypobaric and hyperbaric facilities for a 30-year career, retiring in the grade of Colonel. He is a Past President of the Aerospace Physiology Society (AsPS) and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) and is Chair of the UHMS Education Committee for Physician Continuing Medical Education. He has served on the two national safety committees for hyperbaric facilities. Dr. Sheffield is an international lecturer, author of over 100 scientific papers, and senior editor of Wound Care Practice by Best Publishing
	Hengyi Tao, M.D. Dr. Hengyi Tao was born in 1953 in Shanghai China. He graduated from Shanghai Second Military Medical University (SMMU) in 1977 and received the medical Master Degree from SMMU in 1988. He works in the Department of Diving Medicine, SMMU as Professor of Hyperbaric Medicine. Professor Tao has long been engaged in teaching and research work in diving medicine. During 2002-2003, he worked in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Institute of Health (NIH), Frederick, Maryland, USA. He has published more than 100 papers and a few monographs including “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy”, “Basic and Clinical Aspects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy”, “Diving Medicine” and “Ocean Engineering Medicine”. Currently he is a member of the Chinese Ocean Engineering - Hyperbaric Medicine Branch, Chinese Medical Society and President of Diving Medicine Branch, Chinese Society of Nautical Medicine.