2021 Gulf Coast Chapter Annual Meeting

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PLEASE NOTE: The Piedmont Hospital, Marcus Tower, Atlanta, GA, where the Gulf Coast Chapter meeting will be held, is requiring anyone who attends a function to have a COVID negative test within 3 days of the start of the meeting and/or proof of vaccination (at least the 1st shot).

MEETING REGISTRATION FEES:

MEMBERS:

Physician or Equivalent
- Daily Rates: Sat: $200 / Sun: $100
Non-Physician:
- Daily Rates: Sat: $160 / Sun: $80

NON-MEMBERS:

Physician or equivalent
- Daily Rates: Fri: Sat: $240 / Sun: $120
Non-Physicians
- Daily Rates: Sat: $200 / Sun: $100

CHAPTER CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: $50 administrative fee will be held on all cancellations three (3) months prior to start of meeting date. 50% of fees will be held on all cancellations one (1) month to two weeks prior to start of meeting date. NO REFUNDS two weeks prior to or after the meeting date.

Event Properties

Event Start Date	11-06-2021
Event End Date	11-07-2021
Cut off date	11-14-2021
Location	Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Marcus Tower
Categories	UHMS Directly Provided Meeting

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AJ Applewhite

MD

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Andrew J. Applewhite, MD, is the Medical Director at Baylor University Medical Center’s Comprehensive Wound Center in Dallas, TX, which is accredited with distinction by the UHMS and is a 24/7 facility with critical care capabilities.

Dr. Applewhite received his MD from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and completed his Family Medicine Residency at UTMB. He now devotes his full time-practice to wound care and hyperbaric medicine, and he has served as medical director for hyperbaric medicine and wound care centers since 2003. He is double board-certified in both Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and Family Medicine. Dr. Applewhite is also the Immediate Past President of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

In addition to his board certifications, Dr. Applewhite is a Certified Wound Specialist Physician, Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association, Fellow of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (FUHM) and a Fellow of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. He currently serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor (Affiliated) for the Texas A&M Medical School, where he teaches medical students and residents about hyperbaric medicine and wound care.

Among other publications and poster presentations, Dr. Applewhite collaborated on a manuscript as an expert panel member entitled The Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers through Optimal Offloading: Building Consensus Guidelines and Practical Recommendations to Improve Outcomes, published in the November/December 2014 issue of JAPMA (Journal of American Podiatric Medical Association).

Dr. Applewhite is a national and international speaker and instructor on wound care and hyperbaric medicine and has served many leadership roles in the hospital and community — including the Medical Executive Committee for Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Baylor Specialty Hospital and Select Specialty Hospital. In addition, he is the founder of the “Aim to Heal” charity golf tournament, which raises money and awareness for diabetic foot ulcers.

Donato Borrillo

MD

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Greg Brown

CHT

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Helen Gelly

MD

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Dr. Gelly has been involved in hyperbaric medicine and wound care since 1991. Past positions have included Medical Directorships at academic and community hyperbaric medicine and wound care programs. She started a non-hospital affiliated hyperbaric medicine center which was one of the first UHMS accredited centers. She has been actively involved in billing and reimbursement issues for both facilities and physicians. Until recently, she was the Medical Director of Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia, a group of physicians dedicated to the practice of hyperbaric medicine and wound healing, with 5 subspecialty boarded physicians in its membership. In addition to lecturing nationally on hyperbaric medicine and wound healing for many years, she was the president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the UHMS from 2005-2007. Currently, she serves as the Emeritus Medical Director of Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia, and as C.E.O. for HyperbaRXs.

Jayesh Shah

MD

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Dr. Jayesh B. Shah is the President of South Texas Wound Associates, where he provides clinical wound care services in San Antonio since past 22 years; President of TIMEO2 Healing Concepts, LLC, which provides consulting and education services in wound care and hyperbaric medicine; Medical Director of Wound Healing Center at Northeast Baptist Hospital; Co-Medical Director of Mission Trail Baptist Wound Healing Center in San Antonio, Texas; current President of American College of Hyperbaric Medicine; Past President American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin; Past President of Bexar County Medical Society; Current Board of Director for ISTAP,current Board of Trustees Member of Texas Medical Association and AMA Delegation from Texas

He has published “Wound Care Certification Study Guide” in 2011, its second edition in 2016; Textbook of Chronic Wound Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment in 2018, and created “WoundDoctor” App, a comprehensive woundcare resource tool for physicians, nurses and physical therapists for iPhone, Android and iPad. He has authored over 50 chapters on wound topics in 4 books and 40+ scientific articles in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. As Assistant Editor of Journal of ACCWS, he writes a column on certification exam in wound care.

To his credit, Dr Shah is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by TIPS SW Chapter(2020),First Diabetic Foot Research Award- India (2019), Paul James Sheffield Education Award for Lifetime Dedication to Education in the field of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (2014); Jefferson C. Davis Memorial Award for Excellence in Clinical Hyperbaric Medicine (2007 and 2011); Carolyn Sue Award (2009); Young Scientist/Medical Doctor Award (2008)

Jeff Mosteller

CHT

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Jeff Mosteller received a degree in Underwater Technology in September of 1982. Since then he has worked in every aspect of hyperbarcic medicine, starting at UCSD Medical Center where he rose to become Program Director by age 28. Jeff took the very first CHT exam offered in 1991 by the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technologists, passing with distinction and becoming just the 33rd CHT ever. Over his 36 year career, Jeff has operated and managed hyperbaric and wound care centers on every level including Level 1 Trauma Units, such as UCSD and Detroit Recieving Hospital with Complex Multiplace Chambers and intensive care capabilities, to small hospital monoplace centers, and is familiar with every type and manufacturer of hyperbaric chambers. He has published 16 technical papers on hyperbaric operations and safety. In just over 36 years, he has performed or supervised tens of thousands of hyperbaric procedures with a single patient injury more than ear squeeze, and has performed hundreds of treatments for decompression sickness.

Jim Chiamiak

MD

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John Feldmeier

DO

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Dr. Feldmeier received his D.O. degree from The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979 with USAF sponsorship and completed residency training in Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas in 1985. He received a fellowship certificate from the USAF Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship Training Program at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas and was a staff physician there from 1980 to 1982. Dr. Feldmeier was simultaneously the Chief of Radiation Oncology and Chairman of the Hyperbaric Medicine Department at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio before separating from the USAF in 1985. Dr. Feldmeier has served as the Chief of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Grace Hospital in Detroit, MI and the Chairman of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toledo Medical Center from which he retired in 2013 with the award of Professor Emeritus. Dr. Feldmeier has authored numerous publications in both radiation oncology and hyperbaric medicine. He has been the editor of the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee Report. He served as review editor of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He is a Fellow of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and Past- President of the UHMS. He currently co-chairs the UHMS Research Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology. He is a medical consultant to International ATMO. He is the only physician in the U.S. board certified in both Radiation Oncology and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Julio Garcia

CHT, RN, BSN, ACHRN, AAPWCA

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Julio is the Program Director for the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Springhill Medical Center, a multiplace, critical care, 24/7 hyperbaric clinic located in Mobile, AL. Julio's clinic at Springhill MC treats a significant number of injured divers on the Gulf Coast each year.

His background is in emergency medicine, intensive care, and clinical coordiation. Julio served in the U.S. Army as a Combat Medical Specialist and Air Medivac Operations in Operation Desert Shield/Storm. He is also fluent in Spanish.

Kaye Moseley

CHT-A

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Keith VanMeter

MD

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Keith Van Meter, MD completed his undergraduate education at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio in 1968 with a degree in chemistry and English. He graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1973 with a degree in medicine. He trained at Tulane University School of Medicine/Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine with subspecialty board certification in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. From 1989 to the present, Dr. Van Meter has served as the Chief of the Section of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the Medical Director of a 140-physician Emergency Medicine group in south Louisiana and Mississippi (Keith Van Meter & Associates). He acted as the Medical Director of the Jo Ellen Smith Medical Center Multiplace Hyperbaric Medicine Unit from 1978 until the hospital closed in 1998. He has served as the Medical Director of the Baromedical Research Institute Hyperbaric Laboratory in New Orleans, Louisiana since 1980. Dr. Van Meter served on a task force under Dr. Sam Poole and Dr. Norman McSwain to develop medical support planning for NASA for astronauts aboard a space station from 2000-2002. In his private practice, he has treated over 600 hundred commercial divers in the Gulf of Mexico who suffered from acute decompression sickness or arterial gas embolism. Dr. Van Meter’s primary research interest is the application of hyperbaric oxygen in the ACLS, PALS and ATLS in cardiopulmonary arrest utilizing a swine model.

Richard Barry

CHT

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Sat., Nov 6: 7:45-8:00	Introductions/welcome and announcement Kaye Moseley, CHT-A Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 8:00-8:30	UHMS Board update Helen Gelly, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 8:30-9:30	Edgar End Memorial Lecture: Keeping your chamber staff out of the judge's chamber Donato Borrillo, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 10:00-11:00	24/7 HBO2 Operations Julio Garcia, CHT, RN, BSN, ACHRN, AAPWCA Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 11:00-12:00	An introduction to radiation pathology and physiology: Why HBO2 works John Feldmeier, DO Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 1:00-1:30	HBO2 Safety: Management of side effects and contraindications associated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy Jayesh Shah, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 1:30-2:00	The Latest in Hyperbaric Ventilators Greg Brown, CHT Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 2:00-3:00	Reimbursement and regulatory updates in hyperbaric medicine Helen Gelly, MD Read More
Sat,. Nov 6: 3:30-4:30	HBO2 and the DFU: Evidenced Based…or Not??? AJ Applewhite, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 4:30-5:30	Diving after Covid-19 Infection Jim Chimiak, MD Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 8:00-9:00	A not so “deep” dive into flexible walled chamber Jeff Mosteller, CHT Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 9:00-10:00	Materials inside chamber update Richard Barry, CHT Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 10:30-11:30	An update on considerations and concerns of chemotherapy and HBO2 John Feldmeier, DO Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 11:30-12:30	"ECMOid" role of HBOT as an Adjunctive Therapeutic Addition to ACLS/ATLS...(it should be on our horizon) Keith Van Meter, MD Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 12:30-1:00	Q/A Panel AJ Applewhite, MD / John Feldmeier, DO / Kaye Mosley, CHT-A

2021 Gulf Coast Chapter Annual Meeting

Event Properties

AJ Applewhite

MD

Donato Borrillo

MD

Greg Brown

CHT

Helen Gelly

MD

Jayesh Shah

MD

Jeff Mosteller

CHT

Jim Chiamiak

MD

John Feldmeier

DO

Julio Garcia

CHT, RN, BSN, ACHRN, AAPWCA

Kaye Moseley

CHT-A

Keith VanMeter

MD

Richard Barry

CHT

Introductions/welcome and announcement

UHMS Board update

Edgar End Memorial Lecture: Keeping your chamber staff out of the judge's chamber

24/7 HBO2 Operations

An introduction to radiation pathology and physiology: Why HBO2 works

HBO2 Safety: Management of side effects and contraindications associated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy

The Latest in Hyperbaric Ventilators

Reimbursement and regulatory updates in hyperbaric medicine

HBO2 and the DFU: Evidenced Based…or Not???

Diving after Covid-19 Infection

A not so “deep” dive into flexible walled chamber

Materials inside chamber update

An update on considerations and concerns of chemotherapy and HBO2

"ECMOid" role of HBOT as an Adjunctive Therapeutic Addition to ACLS/ATLS...(it should be on our horizon)

Q/A Panel

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