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Comprehensive information about diving and undersea medicine for the non-medical diver, the non-diving physician and the specialist.

EDMOND KAY, MD, FAAFP
Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
Board Certified in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine & Family Practice

Office 206-242-6500
Fax     206-246-7946

 1988 NOAA / UHMS Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine XIV Certification by Exam
 1980 - 83 Swedish Hospital Family Practice Residency, Seattle, Washington  A.B.F.P.
 1976 - 80 University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, MD
 1973 - 76 University of California, San Diego,  Summa Cum Laude, Human Biology, BA.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support / Basic Life Support
American Board of Family Practice, Re-certified
Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
NOAA / UHMS Certification in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Washington State Medical License.

 1983 - Present Riverton Family Medicine.  Board Certified Family Practitioner and Fellow, AAFP.  .
 1997 - Present Medical Director, Diver's Institute of Technology, Seattle, WA
 1991 - 92 Director of Hyperbaric Medicine, The Institute of Applied Physiology and Medicine.  Seattle, WA.
 1989 - 92 Highline Medical Group Emergency and Urgent Care
 1982 - 83 Northwest Emergency Physicians

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES (partial list)

* Lecturer 12th Annual Advances in Family Practice Symposium, University of Washington, Category I CME.  Topic - "Problem Wounds and the Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy"
* Lecturer NOAA Physicians Training Courses.  Topics - "Patent Foramen Ovale/Atrial Septal Defect", "Workshop in Bubble-Contrast Echocardiography", "Case Histories in Diving Injury", and "The Diver's Physical Exam" - four hour presentations on Diving Medicine
* Lecturer NOAA Diving Medical Technician Training courses.  Topics - "Examination of the Chest", "Oxygen Administration for Diving Injuries"
* Lecturer University of Washington Category I Lecture Series.  Topic - "New Concepts in the Management of Decompression Sickness".
* Lecturer Physicians and Nurse Practitioners of North Seattle Public Health Department, "The Diving Physical Exam"
* Lecturer Northwest Diving Rescue Workshop.  Topic - “First Aid In Diving Accidents”
* Workshops WAFP Annual Meeting, "Clinical Applications of Computers"
* Workshops AAFP Annual Meeting "E-Mail for the Family Physician".
*  Presentation Washington State Board of Health, "The On-Line Doc:  An Introduction to Telemedicine"
* Co-chair Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshop, "In-Water Recompression for Treatment of Decompression Sickness."  (Seattle, 5/98).  Editor of Proceedings.

* Televised Presentation “The Divers Ear-Under Pressure”, a one-hour televised lecture sponsored by the University of Washington, UWTV, 9/00
* President Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Pacific Chapter 1994 - 1995
* Guest Commentary "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" nationally televised 12/93.  Subject: "Health Care and Physician Payment Reform".
* Appointed Member National Delegation to the Healthcare Financing Administration (HCFA), testifying on physician reimbursement and payment reform, 5/92
* President King County Academy of Family Physicians, 1990

* American Academy of Family Physicians
* American Telemedicine Association
* King County Academy of Family Physicians, President 1990 - 1991
 Executive Board member, 1984 - Present
* King County Medical Society
* Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
* Washington Academy of Family Physicians
 Board member & chair, Committee on Information Services

* Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians. 1997
 * Provost Honors, Regent's Scholar, Summa Cum Laude graduate for University of California, San Diego, 1976
 * Recipient "Regent's Scholarship".  A full merit scholarship to University of California,  San Diego, 1973 - 1976

* Highline Community Hospital    Active.
* Family Practice Department Chair    1995 - 1997

 * Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington.
 * Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Psychosocial and
  Community Health, University of Washington
 * Dive Medical Officer, University of Washington Diving Program, Department of
  Environmental Health and Safety.

 * "Be Prepared and be Careful: One Diver's Final Legacy", Alert Diver, March/April, 1993.
 * "Diving Physiology in Plain English' Redux", Alert Diver, March/April, 1998
 * “In-Water Recompression” Editor and Chair of Proceedings from the 48th UHMS
          Workshop. Seattle, Washington 1998.  Published, 1999

* Personal web site dedicated to Diving Medicine.
  http://faculty.washington.edu/ekay/