The Baromedical Research Foundation

Director

Dick Clarke Dick Clarke, CHT

Dick founded the Baromedical Research Foundation in 1988, and continues as its director. Throughout the first decade of the Foundation's existence, Dick provided the operational and scientific platform for laboratory-based research. In 1999, he conceived and introduced Project HORTIS, an ambitious undertaking designed to improve the level of evidence related to the hyperbaric treatment of late radiation tissue injury. This randomized, controlled clinical trial is currently underway in several countries.

Dick heads National Baromedical Services, a hyperbaric and wound care management provider. He is the editor of www.mededonline.org, and course director for Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine and the HBO 2000 series of advanced symposia. He is a long-standing faculty member of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Diving Medical Officer Training course, he pioneered the Certification in Hyperbaric Technology, is a past president of the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology and he remains active in numerous international organizations dedicated to undersea and hyperbaric medicine.