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Seminar Schedule
ROOM
S230E
Wednesday, November 6
9:00 AM Evaluating Information Related to Diving
- Increasing Your Critical Thinking
Marty McCafferty, EMT-P, DMT-A
10:00 AM Art and Science of Rebreather Diving
Richard Vann, PhD
11:00 AM PFO & Recreational Diving
Douglas Ebersole, MD
1:00 PM Pathophysiology of Immersion
Neal Pollock, PhD
2:00 PM Critical Thinking in Postdive Symptoms
Matías Nochetto, MD
3:00 PM Project Dive Exploration: 1995-2008
Richard Vann, PhD
4:00 PM Measuring Decompression Stress
Neal Pollock, PhD
Thursday, November 7
9:00 AM Marine Life Toxinology:
What the Dive Leader Should Know
Matías Nochetto, MD
10:00 AM Measuring Decompression Stress
Neal Pollock, PhD
11:00 AM Evidence-Based Decompression
Richard Vann, PhD
1:00 PM In-water Recompression: Pros and Cons
Matías Nochetto, MD
2:00 PM Myths & “Facts” in Diving Physiology
Neal Pollock, PhD
3:00 PM PFO & Recreational Diving
Douglas Ebersole, MD
4:00 PM Art and Science of Rebreather Diving
Richard Vann, PhD
Marty McCafferty, EMT-P, DMT-A
DAN Medical Information Specialist Marty
McCafferty has been both a dive instructor
and a paramedic since 1995. He has worked
as a paramedic in the field, in an emergency
room and as an emergency medical services
supervisor at an Ohio theme park. McCafferty
is a certified American Heart Association Basic
Life Support and First Aid instructor. He is
dedicated to enhancing diver education through
dive medicine focused webinars, conferences,
lectures and workshops.
Neal Pollock, PhD
Dr. Neal Pollock is a Research Director at
DAN and a Research Associate in the Center
for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental
Physiology at Duke University Medical Center.
His academic training is in zoology, exercise
physiology and environmental physiology. His
research interests focus on human health and
safety in extreme environments. He is actively
involved in projects of flying after diving,
breath-hold safety, astronaut decompression
and ultrasonic assessment of decompression-
induced bubbles.
Matías Nochetto, MD
Dr. Matias Nochetto is the DAN Director of
Outreach, chair of the DAN America Committee
for the Recompression Chamber Assistance
Program and a member of DAN’s Institutional
Review Board. An SSI dive instructor since
1999, Nochetto is also a National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s trained dive
medical officer as well as an Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medical Society and International
Association of Diving Contractors certified
dive medical examiner. His focus is to develop
hyperbaric and dive medicine throughout
Latin America.
Seminar Speakers
