George B. Hart Memorial Keynote

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Thursday, June 5: 10 am - 11 am

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About the Speaker:

GEORGE "BABE" HART, MD  KEYNOTE LECTURE
About Dr. Hart:

 Dr. George B. Hart, Captain USNR (Ret.)

George Babe was born in Lamesa Texas on January 29, 1930, at home on North Fourth Street and attended Lamesa High School and graduated from Seagraves High School as Salutatorian in1947. He was an Eagle Scout (Order of the Arrow). He graduated from Texas Christian University in 1952 and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1956. He entered the United States Navy in 1957 and served as the Regimental Surgeon to the 6th Marine Division, as Chief of Surgery of the Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Naval Hospital Long Beach, California. George Babe continued in scouting by becoming a scout master, Sea Explorer Skipper and was one of the first to develop the Medical Explorer programs in Long Beach, California and in Corpus Christi, Texas. As skipper of the Sea Explorer Post, Guantanamo Bay, his SCUBA scouts were the only unit allowed to exhibit their skills at the 12th World Scout Jamboree held July 31, 1967, at Farragut State Park, Idaho on all days of the exhibitions. Dr. Hart was an internationally acclaimed leader in hyperbaric medicine, as well as a renowned thoracic, vascular and trauma surgeon, an expert on diving medicine, and served as Associate Professor of Surgery, at the University of California, Irvine. After his retirement from the United States Navy in 1977, Dr. Hart established the Hyperbaric Medicine Program at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, a program that became internationally recognized as the pre-eminent center for hyperbaric expertise, research and education under his leadership. George B. Hart, Captain USNR (Ret.), devoted husband, loving father, researcher and patriot, passed from this earth Saturday, September 27, 2014, with his family by his side.