The following is the final schedule for the UHMS Pacific Chapter Meeting being held on Catalina Island next month:
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UHMS PACIFIC CHAPTER MEETING - NOVEMBER 2-3, 2007

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

08:00 - 08:15
Introduction and Welcome

08:15 - 09:05
Decompression Illness in Tunnel Workers in Seattle
Ed Kay, MD

09:05 - 09:55
Update on Wound Scoring Systems
Michael Strauss, MD

09:55 - 10:45
Medical Problems of Free Divers
Ralph Potkin, MD

10:45 - 11:00
Break & Exhibition

11:00 - 11:50
Most Common Fatal Injuries in Diving and Risk Factors
Petar Denoble, MD

11:50 - 12:35
Development of the Nitrox Tables
Morgan Wells, PhD

12:35 – 13:30
Lunch & Exhibition

13:30 - 14:05
Spirometric Changes with Long-term Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A prospective study update
Dick Sample

14:05 - 14:55
Cerebral Air Embolism in a Scuba Diver with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: Case presentation with the diver/patient
Ralph Potkin, MD

14:55 - 15:10
Break & Exhibition

15:10 - 16:00
Acute Pulmonary Edema During Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Ben Slade, MD

16:00 - 17:00
Lung Leak at High Altitude
Robert Schoene, MD

Awards Presentation/Dinner
Award presented to Morgan Wells, PhD: Honoring a life time of contributions to
Hyperbaric Medicine and Diving.

Presentation: Science on High-from Mt Everest to the ICU, Robert Schoene, MD

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - DIVER'S DAY

08:00 - 08:15
Greetings And Introduction

08:15 - 09:00
What Every Diver Should Know About his Ears
Lorre Henderson, MD

09:00 - 09:45
Mammalian Adaptations to Diving
Micahel Strauss, MD

09:45 - 10:30
Diving with the Humboldt Squids
Scott Cassell

10:30 - 10:45
Break & Exhibition

10:45 - 11:30
Similaries and Differences of Fatalities in Recreational, Cave and Rebreater Divers
Petar Denoble, MD

11:30 - 12:15
In Search of the Elusive Free Diving Bubbles
Karl Huggins

12:15 - 13:15
Lunch

13:15 - 14:15
Underwater Habitation
Morgan Wells, PhD

14:15 - 15:15
Scientific Diving in the National Marine Sanctuary Program (NOAA)
Steven Katz, MD

15:15 - 15:30
Break & Exhibition

15:30 - 16:30
Poisonous Marine Animals
Matthew Berry, MD

16:30 – 17:30
Hard to Find Fish and Where to Find Them
Ken Kurtis

AFTER MEETING DIVING EVENTS

Saturday Night
Night Diving on the King Neptune

Sunday Morning
2 tank dive with visit to the Catalina Island Hyperbaric Chamber with Special Presentation by Chamber Director, Karl Huggins

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• Wow - what a great program! Will procedings / minutes be available? (nt) Walt 13:54:16 10/05/07 (0)