Chapter Town Hall 2025: Mid-West: Clinical Hyperbaric Medicine

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).

Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. is an American physician and astronaut who flew aboard one Space Shuttle mission (STS-90) as a Payload Specialist. Buckey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1977) and an M.D. from Cornell in 1981, interning at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and completing his residence at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  He was also a flight surgeon with the U.S. Air Force Reserve for 8 years.  Currently, Dr. Buckey is a Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Directs the Hyperbaric Medicine program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Dr. Weaver received a BS in Engineering Science from Arizona State University followed by medical school from the University of Arizona. He served a rotating internship in the US Navy, then went through the medical officer’s course in Undersea and Submarine medicine and was an Undersea Medical Officer on the USS Canopis (AS-34) for two years. After discharged he served in the Naval Reserves with SEAL Team 1-3-5 for a few years.  After discharge from Active Duty he trained in Internal Medicine, with fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Utah. After completion of fellowship he became the Medical Director of Hyperbaric Medicine and Co-director of the Shock Trauma Respiratory ICU at the Level One trauma center, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah for 20 years. He was a co-investigator for the ARDSnet of the NIH and was the principle investigator of a randomized controlled trial of hyperbaric oxygen for acute carbon monoxide poisoning, published by the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a former president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. He has authored and co-authored hundreds of papers, abstracts and book chapters. For 10 years he had a senior leadership role in the DoD effort to conduct blinded randomized trials of hyperbaric oxygen for post-concussive syndrome due to War-related mild traumatic brain injury. Research activities include study of neural auto-antibodies following carbon monoxide poisoning and a randomized trial of hyperbaric oxygen for sequelae months to years after brain injury. He enjoys off-road UTV and adventure motorcycle riding, SCUBA diving, and spending time with his family.