- Dr. Bob Long
- Medical Director
Wesley Centre for Hyperbaric Medicine
Brisbane, Australia
Dr Bob Long initially trained in Family Practice in the US. While living in bush Alaska doing family medicine he began working with the native dive harvesters to try to reduce their incidence of decompression illness and that led him to pursue further training in dive and hyperbaric medicine.
He has been a sport diver for over 25 years and enjoys working closely with sport, commercial, and research divers. A particular area of interest of his is undersea habitats and saturation diving. In 2002 he worked as a dive medical officer on the NEEMO II mission and prior to this he had worked briefly as a DMO on the UNCW/NOAA Monitor Project.
He graduated in medicine from the University of Hawaii and did his hyperbaric training at Duke University in North Carolina. He holds post-graduate diplomas in diving and hyperbaric medicine, and is board certified in family/general practice in both the US and Australia. He is currently involved in hyperbaric research for chronic wounds and radiation injury.
He is a member of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practice and a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice. His wife, Thilda and he have two sons Steve 14 and Ben 12.
