Committees

Activities of the UHMS are carried by committees, who are chaired and staffed by volunteers. If you are interested in serving on one of these committees or in learning more about a committee’s activities, please contact the committee chair.

2010 Program Committee scientificcommittee@uhms.org
Guy Dear (Co-Chair)
James Holm (Co-Chair)
John Feldmeier (C0-Chair)
Dick Sample (Associate Rep)
Lisa Tidd (Meeting Planner)

Awards Committee
Michael Bennett, MD (Chair)

Cynthia Cotta-Cumba M.D.

David Elliott OBE, D.Phil.

Mahito Kawashima M.D.

Audit/Finance Committee

Ben Slade, M.D. (Chair)

Jim Joiner

Mike Muller

Bret Stolp

Laurie Gesell
Brett Hart
Peter Bennett, PhD

Decompression Illness Adjunctive Therapy Committee

Richard Moon, M.D. (Co-Chair)

Frank Butler, M.D. (Co-Chair)

George Beck, M.D.

Jim Chimiak, M.D.

Joe Dervay, M.D.

David Dromsky, M.D.

Andrew Dutka, M.D.

Michael Gernhardt, Ph.D.

Gary Latson, M.D.

Simon Mitchell, MB.ChB

David Warner, M.D.

George Wolf, M.D.

Diving Committee

Simon J. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D.

Education Committee

Paul J. Sheffield, Ph.D., Chair
Bradley B. Bailey, MD

Michael Bennett, M.B., International Rep

Thomas M. Bozzuto, D.O.

William P. Butler, M.D.

Donald R. Chandler, M.A.

Timothy A. Emhoff, M.D..

Lorre T. Henderson, O.D.

Patrick N. Kimbrell, M.D.

Arti Balar Masturzo, M.D.
Stuart Miller, M.D.
Heather Murphy-Lavoie, M.D.

Robert Overlock, M.D.

Roberto A. Penne-Cassanova, M.D.

Jayesh Shah, M.D. (Vice Chair - End. Mat.)

J. Benjamin Slade. M.D., Vice Chair

Tom Workman, CHT
Eugene Worth, M.D.

Stacy Rupert, CME Coordinator

Authorization, Utilization, Quality and Reimbursement Committee

Robert Warriner, M.D. (Co-Chair)
John Feldmeier , D.O. Ex Officio (Co-Chair)

Neil Hampson - M.D. Ex Officio

Lin Weaver, M.D. Ex Officio

Wilbur T.Workman, M.S., CHT

Caroline Fife, M.D.

Craig Conescenti, M.D., FCCP

Harriet Hopf, M.D.

Sue DeSantis

Stephen Thom, M.D., Ph.D.

HBO Safety Committee

Robert Sheffield, CHT (Chair)

Francois Burman, PrEng
Kevan Corson, DMT, CHT
William Gearhart, DMT, CHT
Eric Kindwall, MD
Robert Overlock, MD
E. Cuauhtemoc Sanchez, MD
Thomas Schmidt, PE
Michael Sellers, BSN, RN, ACHRN
James Wilson, CHT

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee

Lindell Weaver, M.D. (Chair)

Dirk Bakker, M.D.
Robert Barnes, M.D.

Michael Bennett, M.D.

Enrico Camporesi, M.D.

Paul Cianci, M.D.

James Clark, M.D

Laurie Gesell, M.D.

Neil Hampson, M.D.

Brett Hart, M.D.

Harriet Hopf, M.D.

Irving Jacoby, M.D.
John Feldmeier, D.O.

Michael Lepawsky, M.D.
Robert Marx, D.D.S.

Richard Moon, M.D.

Ben Slade, M.D.

Michael Strauss, M.D.

Stephen Thom, M.D.

Robert Marx, D.D.S.

Keith Van Meter, M.D.

Wilbur T. Workman, M.S.

Robert Warriner, M.D.

William Zamboni, M.D.

International Affairs Committee

Glen Hawkins (Chair)

Michael Bennett, M.D.

Membership Committee

Matthew Kelly, M.D. (Chair)

Richard Trumbo, Ph.D.

Catherine McCoy, M.D.

Andrew Dutka, M.D.

R.W. “Bill” Hamilton, Ph.D.

Nominations Committee

Brett Hart, M.D. (Chair)

Enrico Camporesi, M.D.

Richard Moon, M.D., C.M.

Folke Lind, M.D., Ph.D.

Stephen Thom, M.D., Ph.D.

Practice Compliance (Ad Hoc) Committee
Stacy Handley, ACHRN, BSN, CWCN (Chair)
Jim Bell, CHT
Dick Clarke, CHT
Rob Fuqua
Laurie Gesell, MD
Seth McEwan, RN, CCRN, CHT
Rob Sheffield, CHT
Deepak Talati
Paul Claus, MD
Brett Hart, MD
Jim Wilcox, RN, BSN
Matias Nochetto, MD