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Peter Lindholm, MD, PhD
Peter Lindholm, MD, PhD is a Professor in Residence and Gurnee Endowed Chair of Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine Research in the Division of Hyperbaric Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
Dr. Lindholm is an environmental physiologist (research) and radiologist (clinical, licensed in Sweden), previously associate professor in physiology and radiology from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He has served in multiple leadership positions including chair of thoracic radiology at the Karolinska University Hospital.
Research interests are in pulmonary medicine and applied respiratory physiology, studying the effects of hypoxia, hyperoxia and extreme environments on humans (ranging from the depth of the oceans to space). Current projects involve the study of in vivo nitrogen gas distribution (for decompression physiology), pulmonary edema in swimmers and divers and why humans drown. He is also CO-I and medical monitor for an NIH sponsored multi-center clinical trial on hyperbaric oxygen treatment for ulcerative colitis flares
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Anna Lussier, MD-PhD student
Anna Lussier is an MD-PhD student at UCSD of Medicine and the UCSD-SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Global Public Health.
As a PhD student with the Lindholm Lab, her research lies at the intersection of human health and the marine environment, with a focus on international marine migration and migratory injury and drowning prevention.
Lussier's other areas of focus include health policy innovation, cross-border health issues, and occupational health in the marine environment. She is a UCSD School of Medicine Global Health Academic Concentration Scholar and previous visiting scholar at the Karolinska Institute where she participated in clinical research studying the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a novel treatment for acute COVID-19 infections. -
Lainey Yu, DO, MS
Elaine (Lainey) Yu, DO, MS is an emergency physician with subspecialty training in wilderness medicine and point-of-care ultrasound. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at SUNY Downstate & Kings County Hospital and her fellowship training at UC San Diego. She holds diplomas in both mountain medicine and diving and marine medicine from the Wilderness Medical Society. She is passionate about wilderness medical education, low-fidelity simulation training, and austere applications of point-of-care ultrasound. Her research interests include endurance climbing, freediving pulmonary injury, and migrant health. In her free time, she can be found underwater, on a cliffside, or in the mountains.
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Charlotte Sadler, MD
Dr. Charlotte Sadler is an emergency medicine physician also practicing in undersea and hyperbaric medicine at UCSD. She splits her clinical time between the emergency department, hyperbaric chamber, and diving medicine clinic. She completed her residency in emergency medicine (UCSD) in 2014 and fellowship in undersea and hyperbaric medicine (UCSD) in 2015. She has served as faculty since completing her training and has been the program director for the undersea and hyperbaric medicine fellowship at UCSD since 2018.
Her research interests including causes of fatalities in scuba divers, cardiac disease in diving, and the effects of COVID-19 on divers. She is the chair of the hyperbaric medicine steering committee and a medical monitor for an NIH sponsored multi-center clinical trial on ulcerative colitis and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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Hideaki Tanaka, MD, FACEP
Dr. Tanaka is an emergency medicine specialist and hyperbaric medicine expert with strong interest in research in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, as well as aerospace medicine. His expertise includes military medicine and special operations medicine in the undersea and aerospace environment, from diving to flight.