Chapter Town Hall: Northeast Chapter: Clinical Hyperbaric Medicine

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CURRENT ROLE

Associate Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology

Staff Neurologist at Duke Comprehensive Stroke Center

Stroke physician and clinical researcher with expertise in etiological determination of cerebral stroke and retinal vascular disease. 

TRAINING

I did my medical training at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. I then undertook residency in neurology followed by a fellowship in vascular neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. I was on the faculty at Brown/Rhode Island Hospital for 3 years before joining Duke in July 2020. 

CURRENT WORK

My area of particular interest is central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), a form of ischemic stroke affecting the eye. The tragedy of sudden, permanent blindness due to this condition is often compounded by delayed presentations to medical attention and delayed or incomplete diagnostic workup as it is not universally accepted as a form of stroke. My central research themes include thrombolysis for CRAO and the interplay of cardioembolic disease and CRAO. The prevailing dogma in current practice is that CRAO is caused in the vast majority of cases by stenosis-causing carotid plaque, However, my work has suggested that patients with CRAO may actually be a vulnerable population in whom an appropriate diagnostic workup is likely to uncover a cardiac arrythmia or structural lesion that places them at very high risk of recurrent embolic events, and whose needs are not being met by current medical practice. My work has appeared in Stroke, Annals of Neurology, British Medical Journal, Neurology, Translational Stroke Research and Circulation: Arrythmia and Electrophysiology. I also have an interest in the use of large datasets for stroke research and serve as the clinical lead for the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program data analysis core at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Here at Duke, we have set up a center of excellence for the treatment of CRAO which include an acute treatment pathway and a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic for patients with retinal vascular disease.”

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University of South Florida, Tampa,FL, 33606
Hyperbaric Medicine Oversight Officer

Emeritus Professor and Past Chair Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care. He specializes in anesthesiology and has over 53 years of experience in the field of medicine. He is affiliated with numerous hospitals, including Tampa General Hospital. His research interests include Anesthesiology, Diving Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine and Respiration Physiology. He currently serves on the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. He is well published on Hyperbaric Medicine and frequently lectures on the Protective Strategies Against ischemia/reperfusion Injury. His research has explored respiratory and exercise human responses to high-pressure environments (The Atlantic series of Deep Dives – 77 ATA) and treatment of diving accidents (DAN).

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League City, Texas, United States

• Neutral Buoyancy Lab Deputy Medical Director · NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Board certified preventive medicine physician
• Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Board Certified)

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Sandra Wainwright, MD Medical Director of the Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Center Greenwich Hospital, Yale New Haven Health. Boarded in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  Born in Georgia grew up all over the US and Japan as part of a military family.  Graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA with a Chemistry degree.  Pursued MD at St. Georges University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.