2021 Gulf Coast Chapter Annual Meeting

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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
Registration Start Date	11-12-2020
Cut off date	11-14-2021
Location	Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Marcus Tower
Categories	UHMS Directly Provided Meeting

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Caroline Fife

MD

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Dr. Fife completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and the Medical Director of the CHI St. Luke's Wound Clinic in The Woodlands, Texas. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry. The USWR develops quality measures and helps wound care and hyperbaric practitioners meet the requirements of Medicare’s new Quality Payment Program. She has been a Certified Wound Specialist since 1998 and is a past president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. Past and present board activities include the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (current co-chair), the American Academy of Wound Management, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and the American Professional Wound Care Association. She is the clinical editor of Today’s Wound Clinic, and has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks (the Textbook of Chronic Wound Care, Wound Care Practice, and Women and Pressure: Diving and Flying.). Her research contributions include altitude decompression studies that enabled the construction of the International Space Station by decreasing the time needed for oxygen pre-breathe as part of a NASA lead research consortium, the development of real time lymphatic imaging with Dr. Eva Sevick using near infrared technology, and more recently, the use of real world data for comparative effectiveness studies to understand what works best for patients with chronic wounds and ulcers.

Donato Borrillo

MD

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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.

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 John Feldmeier, DO Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 8:30-9:30	Medical and Ethical Issues and HBO2 Donato Borrillo, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 10:00-11:00	24/7 HBO2 Operations or clinical trials Julio Garcia, CHT, RN, BSN, ACHRN, AAPWCA Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 11:00-12:00	Update on Chemo Drugs in the Chamber -or related topic John Feldmeier, DO Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 1:00-2:00	MIPS update Caroline Fife, MD Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 2:00-3:00	Audits or another topic TBD Helen Gelly, MD Read More
Sat,. Nov 6: 3:30-4:30	Documentation for HBO2 Kaye Moseley, CHT-A Read More
Sat., Nov 6: 4:30-5:30	DAN update; Importance of 24/7 chamber operations Jim Chimiak, MD Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 8:00-9:00	Safely Reduce Oxygen Costs Without Compromising Patient Safety 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	TBA TBA Read More
Sun., Nov 7: 11:30-12:30	TBA 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

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2021 Gulf Coast Chapter Annual Meeting

Event Properties

Caroline Fife

MD

Donato Borrillo

MD

Helen Gelly

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

Medical and Ethical Issues and HBO2

24/7 HBO2 Operations or clinical trials

Update on Chemo Drugs in the Chamber -or related topic

MIPS update

Audits or another topic TBD

Documentation for HBO2

DAN update; Importance of 24/7 chamber operations

Safely Reduce Oxygen Costs Without Compromising Patient Safety

Materials inside chamber update

TBA

TBA

Q/A Panel

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