Hyperbaric Medicine Current Fellows and Alumni

Rima Dilbarova, MD

Undergraduate: Drexel University
Medical School: Drexel University
Residency: UC San Diego

Dr. Rima Dilbarova was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and moved to Philadelphia when she was 5 years old. She majored in biology at Drexel University and stayed there to complete medical school. She moved to San Diego for Emergency Medicine residency at University of California, San Diego. Her professional interests include global health and wound care. In her free time she enjoys rock climbing, hiking/ backpacking, traveling, diving (recently certified!), and gardening.

Francisco Kortman, DO

Undergraduate: Brigham Young University; BA Anthropology (sociocultural emphasis)
Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, GA Campus (GA-PCOM)
Residency: Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, OB/GYN

Francisco was born in Costa Rica and raised in Marietta, GA. He joined the US Navy in 2009 as an ENS in the US Naval Reserves. He graduated GA-PCOM with his Doctor of Osteopathy and began active duty service in 2013. He successfully completed his Internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology from NMCP in 2014. He completed dive school with Class 15-10-DMO and graduated Undersea Medical Officer Candidate School Class 111 as honor man, June 2015. 

He served as the Force Medical Officer at NECFC/CTF 56 out of Bahrain and Fleet Undersea Medical Officer forward deployed until 2017. He was integral in recompression chamber inspections, hyperbaric treatments, more than 25 undersea subject matter expert exchanges and TAD in over 12 countries during that period. He returned to NMCP to complete his OB/GYN residency in 2020 and became board certified via ABOG in January 2022. He recently came to fellowship after a 4 year OB/GYN tour in Yokosuka, Japan, where he additionally volunteered as lead UMO for the US Naval Hospital Yokosuka from 2021-2024. He was promoted to the rank of Commander (CDR) in Sep 2024.

As a practicing OB/GYN and UMO , he hopes to bring a fresh perspective from a surgical and women's health perspective to the Fellowship. He is dedicated to women's health within the Dive and special duty community, the international medical community, minimally invasive technology (wireless monitoring), wound care, care of dive casualties and emergent care of critically ill patients. He loves languages (Spanish, French, Greek), international travel, via ferrata and watching movies with his family. He is accompanied by his wife Katie Kortman and 4 children, ages 15, 13, 11 and 7. 

Andrew Wayment, MD

Undergraduate: UC Davis
Medical School: University of Queensland - Ochsner Clinical School
Residency: Southwest Healthcare MEC (Emeregncy Medicine)

Dr. Andrew Wayment was born and raised in the Inland Empire of California. He developed an early appreciation for the relationship between medicine and water sports, working as a California State Lifeguard. After finishing his undergraduate studies at UC Davis, he moved to Brisbane, Australia to start medical school. He finished medical school in New Orleans, LA and came back to California to complete a residency in Emergency Medicine. Andrew has been SCUBA certified since he was 15 year old, having the opportunity to dive all over the world. He looks forward to becoming an expert in Undersea and Dive Medicine. Furthermore, Andrew is interested in making hyperbaric therapies available to the communities he loves. Andrew is an avid outdoorsman, world traveler and loves planning a good adventure.

Adrian Carpenter, MD

Undergraduate: Royal Military College of Canada
Medical School: University of Ottawa
Residency: McGill University

I was born on Vancouver Island, where I lived until I was 6, and then spent the rest of my younger years in Ottawa, Ontario. I am a Canadian military medical officer with 20 years of service, and have finally in the past few years been able to move back to my home of origin in Victoria, BC. I completed an undergraduate degree at the Royal Military College of Canada, and then returned to Ottawa for undergraduate medicine at a civilian university. My residency in Family Medicine was completed in Montreal at the Jewish General Hospital.  I have since worked at three different Canadian military bases and have deployed on a number of occasions to different theatres of operation around the world, including working in Ebola treatment facilities and in support of NATO missions. My interest in Undersea and Hyperbaric medicine stems from exciting (but instructively risky) recreational diving experiences, and the motivation to excel that I see amongst our professional military divers.  I enjoy active pastimes including diving, mountain/gravel cycling, trail running, kitesurfing, and playing with my two young