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Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine
The Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine Fellowship is celebrating its 25th year of training fellows. We have a large and diverse staff, and large patient volumes that offer an extraordinary opportunity for our Fellows. We are ACGME accredited for 5 training positions a year, making us the largest ACGME fellowship in the United States. The Fellowship is a one year in length, consisting of primary site responsibilities shared at our West Jefferson Medical Center Hyperbaric Medicine Department and at our Emergency Medicine Residency-Affiliated site at University Hospital Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic.
UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICINE UPDATES:
- Keith Van Meter, MD, UHM, FACEP: Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship Founder and Section Chief of LSU Emergency Medicine Program (formerly the Charity Emergency Medicine Residency). Dr. Van Meter is the 2009 recipient of the Albert Behnke Award. This is the most prestigious award in Hyperbaric Medicine. In 2008 he was awarded the Edgar M. End Memorial Award in Hyperbaric Medicine. Recent publications include the "Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia" Chapter in the most recent edition Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee Report (2008), as well as the "Diabetic Foot Ulcers" Chapter in the new text Infectious Diseases: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (2007) and the "Hyperbaric Oxygen in Emergency Medicine" in KK Jain's Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine (2007). Please also review Dr. Van Meter's intricate and seminal work concerning the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy during resuscittion: "Hyperbaric oxygen improves spontaneous circulation after prolonged, normothermic porcine cardiopulmonary arrest" [Resuscitation 2008;78(2):200-214].
- Paul Harch, MD: Immediate Past Program Director for the Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship and the Medical Director for the LSU Hyperbaric Medicine Department. Dr. Harch has launched an IRB-approved pilot trial of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy use in chronic blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI - post-concussion syndrome) and TBI with post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD). He has also recently secured a $1.2 million appropriation from Congress to perform a randomized controlled study of HBOT in TBI and PTSD.
- Heather Murphy, MD, UHM, FAAEM: Associate Program Director for the Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship and Assistant Residency Director for the LSU Emergency Residency, and the Assistant Director of Faculty Development for the LSU Emergency Medicine Section. Dr. Murphy has published extensively on the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for ophthalmological diseases, including: the KK Jain Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine (HBOT & Ophthalmology Chapter) and the newest revision of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society Committee Report (Central Retinal Artery Occlusion Indication). Dr. Murphy is also a recurrent national lecturer in Emergency Medicine for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has authored two chapter in the Adam's Emergency Medicine Textbook (Dysbarism and Regional Anesthesia). She has also authored a book chapter in Slaven's Infectious Diseases in Emergency Medicine (Diabetic Foot Wounds).
- Tracy Leigh LeGros, MD, PhD, UHM, FACEP, FAAEM: Current Program Director for the Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship and Assistant Clinical Professor for the LSU Emergency Medicine Residency Program and Medical Director for Emergency Medicine Services (Nunez Community Paramedic College, National EMS Academy, Acadian Ambulance Services Incorporated).
- Alan Wyatt, MD, PhD: Medical Director for the West Jefferson Medical Center Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Department and the Research Director for the Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship.
- HBO 1450 Poydras clinic seeing over 9,000 annualized visits/year.
LSU School Of Medicine
New Orleans
Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship
Our Fellowship is a diverse, multi-faceted, comprehensive training program in Undersea and Hyperbaric medicine that consists of sound clinical, didactic, and research components. We were granted ACGME accreditation in 2007 for 5 fellowship positions beginning the 2008 academic year. This represents the largest number of fellowship positions and largest accredited hyperbaric medicine fellowship in the United States. The strength of the program lies in the combination of expert faculty, exceptional clinical sites, a large volume of patients that span the range of accepted and experimental indications, and ample research opportunities.
Our faculty consists of some of the most accomplished physicians in hyperbaric medicine. The fellowship curriculum is comprehensive didactically and clinically, and covers all of the required Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine specialty topics. Fellows advance their clinical responsibility through informal and formal feedback mechanisms as they rotate through 10 clinical months that include primary and affiliated training sites and diving medicine rotations. Addtionally, the Hyperbaric Fellowship includes a research rotation where fellows work on a project of their choosing. They are exposed to both acute and chronic conditions and simultaneously teach residents, interns, medical students, and diver medics while maintaining their primary skills through employment in their primary specialty. Each fellow operates in a scholarly environment through direct weekly interaction with the faculty who are actively engaged in basic science and clinical research. Research and research methodologies are discussed through conferences, literature review, and interaction with the Ph.D researchers at the Baromedical Research Institute. By the end of the fellowship each fellow completes a research project that is presented at a regional or national meeting.
The combination of the two training sites with the Baromedical Research Institute, the mix of patients, access to the sport and commercial diving communities in the Gulf of Mexico, a diverse faculty with extensive diving and hyperbaric medicine experience, and active research make this Louisiana State University program extremely strong and diversified. The 100% success rate of our fellows with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Boards is testament to the strength of the program. The program is currently accepting applications- We hope you'll join us.
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