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CDR Moore Hua Jan, U.S. Navy, M.D., M.P.H. I was born on 1 October 1956 which makes me an older person. I have been affiliated with the military in some form or other for most of my life. My father retired from the U.S. Army as a Warrant Officer after 30 years of active duty service. I also spent some time in the Army but after 3 years decided to take a new direction. I entered college at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1984. I then went on to medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD and graduated in 1988. I completed a medical internship at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA and after 6 months, entered the Navy’s undersea medical officer training program. I had not been a diver prior to all of this and the dive training in Panama City, FL really opened my eyes. I have been an avid diver since. After completion of training, I went on to complete three tours as a Navy undersea/diving medical officer. I was first assigned to a Trident ballistic missile submarine, the USS West Virginia (SSBN 736). I then went on to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, my best assignment to date. There, among many other dives, I completed an open water 260-foot mixed gas dive, my deepest dive to date. After leaving MDSU-1 I spent 2 years at Submarine Squadron One, also in Pearl Harbor, and then resumed by post-graduate medical training. Having enjoyed my previous assignments, I entered the Navy’s new medical residency program in undersea medicine. I completed the 3 year program in August 2000 and became board certified in both occupational medicine and the new sub-specialty of undersea and hyperbaric medicine. I then went to the Navy’s Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, having come full circle, and now help to teach diving medicine. I am a proud member of the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) and have presented two abstracts at annual meetings, the last in June 2001. That abstract was a case report on a diver who was treated for decompression sickness but later found to have multiple sclerosis. Which brings me to here: part of the medical support for the NOAA/NURC Aquarius shallow water saturation habitat. It has been a fantastic experience thus far and opened my eyes once again to the beauty of the undersea world.
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