Biography

Richard A. Henderson, M.D., MPH, FACPM, Assoc. FAsMA, is Associate Clinical Professor of Community Health at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He received his B.A. degree from California State University, Sacramento, in 1965, his M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1969, and he completed two years of surgical training at Memorial Medical Center and Navy Hospital of Long Beach, California (where he was introduced to hyperbaric oxygen therapy by Dr. George B. Hart, one of the pioneers of HBO therapy in the U.S.), before being inducted into the U.S. Air Force in 1971. He received his MPH degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973, then completed the Residency in Aerospace Medicine (proctored by Dr. Jefferson C. Davis, another well-known HBO pioneer) at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in 1975. The American Board of Preventive Medicine certified him in Aerospace Medicine in 1975.

Dr. Henderson has completed aerospace medicine assignments on all the continents except Antarctica and Greenland, and has flown over 2500 hours in 70 different types of military aircraft, including a few hundred hours in air evacuation missions. His hyperbaric medicine experience includes a one and a half-year tour as Chief of Aerospace Medicine for Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and the near-by active diving community; three years as Chief of Clinical Investigations and Director of the U.S. Air Force Fellowship in Hyperbaric Medicine at the USAF Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Brooks; two years as Chief of Hyperbaric Physiology Research at AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) at Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; and six years as Chief of Medical Operations, Hyperbaric Medicine Department, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Ohio.