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Friday, November 8
9:00 AM Project Dive Exploration: 1995-2008
Richard Vann, PhD
10:00 AM What to Expect from Hyperbaric
Treatment and How it Heals DCS
Dario Gomez, MD
11:00 AM Marine life toxinology:
What the Dive Leader Should Know
Matías Nochetto, MD
1:00 PM Elements of an Emergency Action Plan
Marty McCafferty, EMT-P, DMT-A
2:00 PM Evidence-Based Decompression
Richard Vann, PhD
3:00 PM Pathophysiology of Immersion
Neal Pollock, PhD
4:00 PM Routine Activities That May Increase
DCS Risk on a Dive Trip
Dario Gomez, MD
Saturday, November 9
9:00 AM Myths & “Facts” in Diving Physiology
Neal Pollock, PhD
10:00 AM Elements of an Emergency Action Plan
Marty McCafferty, EMT-P, DMT-A
11:00 AM What to Expect from Hyperbaric
Treatment and How it Heals DCS
Dario Gomez, MD
1:00 PM In-water Recompression: Pros and Cons
Matías Nochetto, MD
2:00 PM Evaluating Information Related to Diving
- Increasing Your Critical Thinking
Marty McCafferty, EMT-P, DMT-A
3:00 PM Critical Thinking in Postdive Symptoms
Matías Nochetto, MD
Douglas Ebersole, MD
Dr. Douglas Ebersole is a cardiologist at Watson
Clinic LLP in Lakeland, Fla., specializing in
coronary and structural heart interventions. A
cave and technical diver, he is a CCR Trimix
instructor for International Association of Nitrox
and Technical Divers and Technical Diving
International. DAN is collaborating with Dr.
Ebersole on a five-year study comparing the
safety of divers who underwent PFO closure
and those who continue diving without it as well
as a two-year study using echocardiographic
screening of divers for left ventricular
hypertrophy and monitoring the rate and
electrical activity of their hearts during diving.
Richard Vann, PhD
Dr. Richard Vann was a Diving Engineer at
Ocean Systems, Inc., Diving Officer for U.S.
Navy Underwater Demolition Team 12, Director
of Applied Research at the Duke Hyperbaric
Center and Research Director at the Divers
Alert Network. Dr. Vann is currently a consultant
to DAN and an Assistant Professor Emeritus in
the Anesthesia Department at Duke Medical
Center. His interests include decompression
sickness, diving fatalities, underwater breathing
apparatus, oxygen toxicity, and space and
mountain medicine with emphasis on the
physiology, statistical modeling and operational
practice of decompression.
Dario Gomez, MD
Born in Mexico City, Dr. Jorge Dario Gomez
Castillo graduated from Anahuac University
Mexico. He earned his advanced degree in
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine from the
National University of Mexico. He completed
a research fellowship in the hyperbaric unit at
Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
He now serves as the DAN Medical Liaison
for the Mexican Caribbean and the Director of
the Hyperbaric Unit in the General Hospital of
Cozumel, Mexico.
