FACULTY AND STAFF

Dr. Wolf is a member of the faculty in Medicine and Cardiology at Temple University Medical School.  He is trained as a Navy Undersea Medical Officer and was on active duty in the U.S. Navy for 3 years and reserve duty for 2. Dr. Wolf also has training in the area of  bioterrorism, and in disaster preparedness.  He is a member of the disaster management committee of Temple University Hospital.  Dr. Wolf was the director of Invasive and Interventional cardiology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania for over 20 years, and is the current acting director of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology at Temple University Medical Center. He has been a leader in application of newer technologies to invasive and interventional cardiology.  Dr. Wolf  has been an avid sport diver for many years.

Management Staff

Sandy manages the program organization.  She is responsible for organizing hotel, travel, and diving arrangements, and assuring that the program runs according to plan.

A training program in diving medicine with special lectures on alatitude and zero gravity exposure and their relations to diving exposures, certified for 25 category I credits through  Temple University School of Medicine.  The program is offered in cooperation with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

Medical evaluation of a diver or diving candidate demands that the physician have a knowledge of the unique physical qualifications needed for this sport. In this year’s program we will pay special attention to diagnosing diving disorders, and will provide a series of lectures on fitness for diving, marine injury and toxicology with emphasis on case examples. The program will feature a series of lectures on altitude and space physiology and its application to diving. Upon completion of the course, participants should have a general knowledge of diving medicine and physiology, space and altitude physiology, marine toxicology, assessment of fitness for diving, and medical standards for diving.

Dr. Bove is actively engaged in research and consulting in diving medicine. He was trained as a diving medical officer in the Navy. Dr. Bove has published a number of studies on the pathophysiology of decompression sickness and with two other investigators, was awarded the Stover-Link diving research award of the Undersea Medical Society in 1975. In 1988, he was awarded the UHMS Craig Hoffman award for contributions to diving safety, and in 1995, the NOGI award for science from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences. He is a past president of the Undersea Medical Society and for 20 years, was the medical editor of Skin Diver Magazine. He has been a consultant in diving medicine to the National Research Council, US Department of Labor, NOAA, and a variety of corporations. Dr. Bove is a certified YMCA and NAUI scuba instructor. He is the editor of a textbook on Diving Medicine, and is an avid sport diver.

Michael L. Gernhardt, PhD
Astronaut, Space and Altitude Physiology Center
Manager, Environmental Physiology Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center

Dr. Gernhardt received his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He is an Astronaut and Project Manager of the Space Exploration Vehicle, Principal Investigator of the EVA PreBreathe (PB) reduction program, Manager of the Environmental Physiology Laboratory. He lead the development of the NASA DCS Risk Definition and Contingency Plan, and the development of reduced PB protocols for ISS, including integration of hardware and operational procedures. He worked a variety of technical jobs in the astronaut office including: the development of nitrox diving to support training for the HST repair mission, Space Station EVA, He flew on four space shuttle missions where he logged over 43 days in space, including 4 spacewalks totaling over 23 hours. He worked as Manager and then Vice President of Special Projects for Oceaneering International.  In 1988 he founded Oceaneering Space Systems, a company formed to transfer subsea technology and operational experience to the ISS program. From 1988 until his selection by NASA in 1992, he worked on the development of new astronaut and robot-compatible tools for performing maintenance on Space Station Freedom. Dr. Gernhardt worked as a commercial diver, diving supervisor and project engineer on oil-field construction and salvage projects in the Gulf of Mexico, South America, North Sea and Southeast Asia and made over 700 deep-sea dives, including surface supplied air and mixed gas dives, bounce bell dives to 420 FSW and helium-oxygen saturation dives.

Dr. Neuman has made many original contributions to diving medicine. Trained as a Naval undersea medical officer, he retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain. Dr. Neuman was president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society in 1989. He is the past editor-in-chief of the journal Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He is the co-editor of the 5th Edition of Bennett and Elliott’s Physiology and Medicine of Diving. In 2007 Dr. Neuman received the Albert Behnke Award for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of Undersea Medicine. He also received the Link-Stover award for contributions to diving safety and the Merrill Spencer Award for lifetime achievement. Dr. Neuman served on a variety of committees of the National Academies of Sciences to advise NASA on the medical problems associated with deep space missions including the colonization of the moon and the trip to Mars. His most recent work has been related to the problems associated with diagnosing DCS and AGE. Dr. Neuman is an active diver, a PADI scuba instructor and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Wolf is a member of the faculty in Medicine and Cardiology at Temple University Medical School. He is trained as a Navy Undersea Medical Officer and was on active duty in the U.S. Navy for 3 years and reserve duty for 2. Dr. Wolf also has training in the area of bioterrorism, and in disaster preparedness. He is a member of the disaster management committee of Temple University Hospital. Dr. Wolf was the director of Invasive and Interventional cardiology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania for over 20 years, and is the current acting director of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology at Temple University Medical Center. He has been a leader in application of newer technologies to invasive and interventional cardiology. Dr. Wolf has been an avid sport diver for many years.

Management Staff

Sandy Bove, R.N.

Sandy manages the program organization. She is responsible for organizing hotel, travel, and diving arrangements, and assuring that the program runs according to plan.

	ACADEMIC PROGRAM TUUM 2013
	Sunday, January 13
8:00 a.m.	Introduction and Welcome	Bove
8:30	Practical Diving Safety	Bove
9:00	Adjourn
3:00 p.m.	Physics and Physiology  of Diving	Bove
4:00	Barotrauma	Neuman
5:00	DCS/AGE	Bove
6:00	Physiology of Altitude and Space - Presssure and Gravity	Gernhardt
7:00	Adjourn
	Monday, January 14
3:00 p.m.	Exercise Physiology –Cardiac Aspects	Bove
3:30	Exercise Physiology – Pulmonary Aspects	Neuman
4:00	Disaster Medicine - Preparing Practice and Hospital	Wolf
5:00	From Oceans to Space - Adaptations and Consequences	Gernhardt
6:00	Dyspnea and Immersion - Facts and Theories	Neuman/Bove
7:00	Adjourn
8:30 p.m.	Health Care Reform - Impact on Clinical Practice	Bove
10:00	Adjourn
	Tuesday, January 15
3:00 p.m.	Marine Toxicology (invertebrates)	Bove
4:00	Ingested Marine Toxins	Bove
4:30	Optimizing Human Safety and Performance in Planetary Exploration	Gernhardt
5:30	Case Examples	Faculty
6:30	Adjourn
	Wednesday, January 16
3:00 p.m.	Fitness for Diving	Neuman
4:00	Marine toxicology (vertebrates)	Bove
5:00	Underwater Research for Space Exploration	Bove
6:00	Case Studies	Faculty
7:00	Adjourn
	Thursday, January 17
3:00 p.m.	Cardiac Disorders and diving	Bove
4:00	Diving Fatalities - Causes and Insights	Neuman
5:00	Application of Altitude Decompression Research to Diving	Gernhardt
6:00	Modern Concepts of Coronary Disease	Wolf
7:00	Adjourn
8:30 p.m.	Photo Review	Course Attendees
10:00	Adjourn
	Friday, January 18
3:00 p.m.	Sudden Death in Sports	Bove
4:00	Final examination	Faculty
5:00	Examination review	Faculty
6:00	Adjourn