Corporate Team
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Dick Clarke, CHT; President
Dick
founded NBS in 1986. His previous background included service in the British
Royal Navy, diving instructor and underwater photographer, assistant director
of the seabed habitat 'HydroLab' and several years in the offshore commercial
diving industry. Dick heads the Baromedical Research Foundation where he
serves as Principal Investigator for several international clinical trials.
He is course director for 'Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine' and the
'HBO 2000' series of advanced hyperbaric symposia. Dick has been a NOAA Diving
Medical Officer Training Course faculty member since 1983. He pioneered the
Certification in Hyperbaric Technology (CHT) program, is a past president
of the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology and remains
active at the committee level within the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical
Society.
Stacy Handley, RN, BSN, ACHRN, CWCN, CHT; Vice President
Stacy assumed her present position following several years as nurse manager of the NBS hyperbaric medicine service at Memorial Hospital, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Stacy oversees the patient care aspects of the NBS network, conducts quality assurance and compliance assessments and preceptors all new NBS nurse managers. Additional responsibilities include marketing and promotion of NBS service lines and generation of monthly safety notices. Stacy is Member at Large for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Associates and a board member for the Baromedical Nurses Association. She has trained as a Hyperbaric Safety Director and a UHMS faculty accreditation surveyor, and is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina ‘Wound Care Specialty Course’ through which she obtained her wound care certification.
W. Ed Lindsay; Staff Accountant
Ed
came to NBS in 2000 after a twelve year career with Robert Bosch GmbH in
Charleston, South Carolina. In 2004 he was promoted to his present position.
Ed oversees all of the financial management aspects of NBS operations, and
those of The Baromedical Research Foundation. These duties include both the
day to day financial operations of the company and plans for future growth
and expansion of the NBS product lines.
While at Bosch, Ed worked as team leader on various projects within the manufacturing system, including Quality Assurance, Inventory Control and Cost Accounting. He assumed the role of Champion on several initiatives, including ISO 9000 plant certification. Following a tour in the U.S. Coast Guard after college, Ed worked for the company now known as ING for eleven years, first as an account representative and finally as a regional manager for auditing.
Dr. D. Lindsie Cone; Corporate Medical Director
Dr.Cone
heads the hospital's undersea and hyperbaric medicine fellowship program,
is a primary speaker during Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine and a
regular faculty member of the Hyperbaric Medicine Advanced symposia. Dr.Cone's
research interests extend from telemedicine for the rural community, rural
health and breast cancer treatment related lymphedema, to the complications
of hyperbaric oxygenation and radiation tissue injury. He is currently the
Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at Palmetto Health Richland and Associate
Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University
of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
Dr.Cone graduated from medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, and moved up to Columbia for his residency training. He holds board certification in Family Medicine and Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr.Cone serves as the Chief Information Officer of the USC School of Medicine.
Dr. Tom Norris; Wound Healing Center Medical Director
Dr. Norris received his
Medical degree from the University of Virginia, and completed his residency
in Family Practice at Palmetto Health Richland/University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Since 1996 Tom has served as Medical Director of the wound healing center at the NBS headquarters facility, in Columbia. Tom also serves as Associate Medical Director at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital. Tom has been involved in sponsored clinical research involving new therapeutic interventions in the setting of wound healing deficiencies. He held Principal Investigator status for two double-blinded trials evaluating the becaplermin growth factor. Tom is published on the topics of diabetic foot wounds and radiation-induced proctitis, and has lectured nationally on these and other wound-related issues.
Hope Stack, BSN, CHRN-Director of Education
Hope joined the team in 2005 as a staff nurse at our Columbia, SC hyperbaric
medicine program. Showing much enthusiasm for NBS and this specialty, she quickly
mastered her responsibilities. Since that time, Hope has become a CHRN, trained
as a safety director, and was promoted to Nurse Manager, all while assisting
in quality assurance for the rest of the company. In 2007, Hope became our primary
training course coordinator and faculty member. The UHMS Associates awarded Hope
with the first ever Special Recognition Scholarship for her efforts in the field,
and related to her abstract presentation at the 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting,
in Maui. She also won the Best Presentation Award that same year from the Baromedical
Nurses Association. Hope obtains and maintains our CEU process for all of the
educational services we offer. Through our corporate quality assurance programs,
Hope ensures that our clinical staff throughout the country maintains currency
with their education, certifications and competencies. Hope remains available
to facilitate access to individuals seeking course registration, text books and
DVDs, TCOM certification and continuing education credits for medical professionals
from all over the world.