2008 Annual Scientific Meeting

The 2008 Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 26-28. A pre-course titled: "Decompression and the Deep Stop" will be offered on June 24-25 and a "Wound Care: An Evidence-Based and Hands on Workshop" Pre-course will be offered on June 25.

The UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting is designed to be a forum for exchange of ideas in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, both scientific and practical, among physicians, researchers and other allied health professionals. The UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting is consists of abstract and poster presentations, plenary sessions, luncheons, the annual Kronheim Lecture, and social events. There will be exhibits from a number of wound care, hyperbaric, and diving vendors.

Expected Results (Goals or Objective):

To provide a forum for professional scientific growth and development of the participants.

The meeting is designed to meet the following additional goals:

To provide an opportunity for participants to:

To provide a forum for professional scientific growth and development of the participants.

The meeting is designed to meet the following additional goals:

To provide an opportunity for participants to:

meet and interact with other scientists and medical practitioners. Specifically, participants should have the opportunity to renew old acquaintances and establish new contacts with basic and applied scientists and medical practitioners in hyperbaric and diving medicine as well as in the fields ancillary to hyperbaric medicine, i.e. nursing, allied health sciences, engineering, and health care administration;
attend oral or poster presentations in which ideas and data are presented pertaining to currently accepted uses of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and diving medicine;
attend oral presentations of a special mini-course pertaining to the physiology and pathophysiology of decompression phenomena;
attend oral or poster presentations pertaining to the physiologic, pharmacologic, pathologic, and biochemical effects of respirable gases with special emphasis on oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and the inert gases, in the hyperbaric environment;
be introduced to new diagnostic, research, or therapeutic techniques and equipment pertaining to hyperbaric medicine;
participate in forums or discussions pertaining to technical factors and engineering pertaining to the development and use of equipment for hyperbaric environments;
learn of the varied activities of the Society and the past and future directions of the Society; and
become active in Societal affairs, so that they could help influence the Society’s future.

As a result of having attended the meeting, the participants should have had the opportunity to:

meet and interact with other scientists and medical practitioners: specifically, participants should have had the opportunity to renew old acquaintances and establish new contacts with basic and applied scientists and medical practitioners in hyperbaric and diving medicine as well as in the fields ancillary to hyperbaric medicine, i.e. nursing, allied health sciences, engineering, and health care administration;
attend oral or poster presentations in which ideas and data are presented pertaining to currently accepted uses of hyperbaric oxygen and diving medicine and, where applicable, incorporate these ideas into their practice;
gain a more in-depth knowledge and appreciation of scientific issues involved in critiquing decompression schedules and/or in developing safer decompression schedules;
gain a more in-depth knowledge of current issues pertaining to the physiology and pathophysiology of compression and decompression phenomena and, where applicable, be able to apply this information in their practice;
gain a more in-depth knowledge of the physiologic, pharmacologic, pathologic, and biochemical effects of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, the noble gases, especially in the hyperbaric environment, on different levels of biological organization and, where applicable, be able to incorporate this information into their practice;
gain new knowledge about the future scientific and medical directions of hyperbaric medicine and, where applicable, be able to incorporate the appropriate information into their practice;
present material pertaining to their experiences within the diverse field of high pressure biology and to receive critical reviews of their work;
be introduced to new diagnostic, research, or therapeutic techniques and equipment pertaining to hyperbaric medicine and be able to incorporate the relevant knowledge and procedures into their practice;
learn of the varied activities of the Society and the past and future directions of the Society;
AND become active in Societal affairs so that they could influence the Society’s future.

REGISTER ONLINE at: www.regonline.com/UHMS-SLC08

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