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 directs 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
Diver Medic (DMT) and Certification in Hyperbaric Technology (CHT) programs,
is 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.
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.
Sherry Bell, RN, ACHRN, Corp. Nursing Director
Sherry serves as the Corporate Nursing Director for NBS in addition to her position as Nurse Manager at the Hyperbaric Medicine Service at Port Warwick in Newport News, Virginia. She assists the Vice-President with quality assurance and compliance assessments; provides clinical and administrative support; and serves as a clinical instructor at Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine. Sherry assisted in the recruitment and training of research staff in Norfolk, Virginia for the Baromedical Research Foundation. She is a trained Safety Director and is Associate member of the UHMS.