FACULTY AND STAFF

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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 and hyperbaric  medicine, certified for 24 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. With over 4 million sport divers in the United States alone, diving candidates with chronic disorders frequently request medical clearance for sport diving. The program provides a review of criteria for fitness of sport diving candidates. Differential diagnosis and treatment of diving disorders will be discussed in detail. This course will provide physicians of all specialties, nurse or physician’s assistant with a basic understanding of the physics, physiology and stresses produced by the diving environment. We will pay special attention to women and diving, children and diving, and will also cover medical emergiecies, disaster medicine and bioterrorism.

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.

Frank K. Butler, Jr., Capt., MC, USN
Director of Biomedical Research
Naval Special Warfare Command
Former Head of Ophthalmology
Naval Hospital, Pensacola

Dr Butler is a Navy undersea medical officer and an ophthalmologist who served as a Navy SEAL platoon commander prior to his medical career. He currently directs the Biomedical Research Program for the Naval Special Warfare Command. He spent five years at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and has made numerous contributions to the literature of diving medicine, particularly directed toward eye problems in diving and SEAL diving techniques.  Dr. Butler is a consultant in ophthalmology for the Diver's Alert Network and has also contributed to the literature in the prehospital management of combat trauma. He is an active diver both in the navy and as a sport diver.

Dr. Neuman was trained as a Naval undersea medical officer, and has made many original contributions to diving medicine and physiology.  He retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain (O-6). 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, and is the co-editor of the 5^th Edition of the textbook Bennett and Elliott’s Physiology and Medicine of Diving. In 2007 Dr. Neuman was presented with the Albert Behnke Award for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of Undersea Medicine. In addition to the above, Dr Neuman has received the Link-Stover award for his contributions to diving safety and the Merrill Spencer Award for lifetime achievement. Dr. Neuman has recently been a member of a variety of committees of the National Academies of Sciences to advise NASA on the medical problems associated with deep space missions including the planning for 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.  He recently retired from the University of California San Diego and now holds the rank of Emeritus Professor.

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 2009
	Sunday, January 18
8:00 a.m.	Introduction and welcome	Bove
8:30	Practical Diving Safety	Bove
3:00 p.m.	Applied Physics and Physiology  of diving	Butler
4:00	Barotrauma	Neuman
5:00	DCS/AGE Treatment	Bove
6:00	Forum - Diagnosing DCS	Faculty
7:00	Adjourn
	Monday, January 19
3:00 p.m.	Diving Tables and Computers	Neuman
4:00	Breath-Hold Diving: A New Approach	Butler
5:00	Disaster Medicine  - Preparing hospital and practice	Wolf
6:00	Pulmonary Disorders and Diving	Neuman
6:30	Adjourn
8:30 p.m.	Marine environment
10:00	Adjourn
	Tuesday, January 20
3:00 p.m.	Marine Toxicology (invertebrates)	Bove
4:00	Ingested Marine toxins	Bove
4:30	Technical diving and rebreathers	Butler
5:30	PFO and Diving	Bove
6:30	Adjourn
	Wednesday, January 21
3:00 p.m.	Dysbaric Eye Disorders	Butler
4:30	Disaster medicine - Managing Mass  Casualties	Wolf
5:30	Marine toxicology (vertebrates)	Bove
6:30	Diagnosing Decompression Sickness - SANDHOG criteria	Neuman
7:00	Adjourn
	Thursday, January 22
3:00 p.m.	Cardiac Disorders and diving	Bove
4:30	Management of Diving Accidents from the USS Oriskany Dive Site	Butler
6:00	Near Drowning	Neuman
7:00	Adjourn
8:30 p.m.	Marine Environment
10:00	Adjourn
	Friday, January 23
3:00 p.m.	Decompression - rethinking a 100 year old theory	Neuman
4:00	Final examination	Faculty
5:00	Examination review	Faculty
6:00	Adjourn