Chapter Town Hall: Mid-West: Diving Medicine

Aurora St. Luke's Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Fellows Class of 2024.  Medical School: Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine Residency: Eastern Virginia Medical School

Kyle DuBose graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2013. He completed his primary training in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Subsequently, he completed his fellowship training in Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine at Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI. He has worked at Advocate Aurora Health since August 2017 as the lead physician at Aurora Medical Center Kenosha’s Comprehensive Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Clinic. He chairs the Utilization Review Committee for the Hyperbaric Medicine Department at Advocate Aurora Health. He was involved in helping create the Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine Fellowship at Advocate Aurora Health and is currently one of the faculty attendings for the program. In 2017, he helped create and leads the Limb Salvage Team at Aurora Medical Center Kenosha. Dr. DuBose also served on the Medical Executive Committee at Aurora Medical Center Kenosha.

Aurora St. Luke's Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Fellows Class of 2024.  Medical School: Ponce Health Sciences University Residency: University of Puerto Rico

Dr. Richard Moon earned BSc and MD degrees at McGill University. He trained in internal medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto, then in pulmonary and critical care medicine, followed by anesthesiology at Duke University. He joined the Duke University faculty in 1983. He is Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology. His research has included physiology of immersion and predictors of arterial PCO2 during underwater exercise. He has been particularly interested in causes and prevention of immersion pulmonary edema, use of an experimental breathing gas (perfluoromethane) to decrease decompression requirements after heliox dives, mechanisms of death during triathlons, causes of perioperative opioid-induced respiratory depression, and improved monitoring techniques for monitoring patients to detect it. His awards include the Mentorship Award from the AMA-Women Physicians Congress Physician Mentor Recognition Program, Leonard Palumbo Jr, MD Faculty Achievement Award for compassionate patient care and excellence in the teaching and mentoring of young physicians, Duke awards for Excellence in Medical Student Education and two awards as Duke Anesthesiology Teacher of the Year.

Previous President of UHMS, Previous Editor in Chief of UHMS Journal, Editor of The Physiology and Medicine of Diving, Editor of The Physiology and Medicine of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Co-Author of Investigating Recreational and Commercial Diving Accidents. Author of hundreds of articles, book chapters, and presentations.

Dr. Alleman is board certified in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, occupational medicine, and addiction medicine.  He was the chairman of the committee that formulated the guidelines for work as an inside attendant and is the chairman of the committee that is revising these guidelines.  He is co-course director and teaches at the Medical Examiner of Diver course in New Orleans and the Physicians Training in Diving Medicine Course in San Diego.  He is currently the chairman of the Physicians Diving Advisory Committee (PDAC) of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI).  He is currently a corresponding member for the Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) for the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA).