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Richard Dunford has joined the DAN® Research team as a research analyst.
Dunford’s duties will include collecting, managing and analyzing experimental data; he will also assist in the planning and design of new studies. He will oversee ongoing studies and develop and test appropriate data-collection instruments. As part of the research team, Dunford will publish papers in refereed journals and present them at scientific and industry meetings.
In making the announcement, Richard Vann, vice president of DAN Research, said DAN is pleased to have Dunford join the Research department. “We have collaborated with him in the past on several publications related to the occurrence of bubbles in recreational divers,” Vann said. “He brings experience in both statistical analysis and writing; they will be very helpful in our investigations of diving fatalities, diving injuries and decompression risk.”
“We are glad to have Richard Dunford working with our Research department,” said Dan Orr, DAN president and chief executive officer. “It was especially satisfying that a number of his papers were quoted during our Technical Diving Workshop in January 2008.”
Before joining the DAN team, Dunford worked for 31 years in operations management and decompression safety as departmental manager of the hyperbaric chamber at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.
During those years he conducted or contributed to research studies on decompression risk, decompression sickness and carbon monoxide poisoning. He is also an internationally recognized expert on Doppler field research for the detection of bubbles in divers.
Dunford said he once confided in Vann that he liked to work with data. “Now it looks like I’ll get to live under a mountain of it for a while,” he said. “What’s that saying about getting what you wished for…?”
Dunford’s association with DAN began in 1980 when he became DAN’s Pacific Northwest coordinator. He has been associated with many DAN projects in medicine and research, and he has written several articles for Alert Diver. In 1988 he was awarded the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year for his contributions to the DAN Mission.
“I have enjoyed all my years associated with DAN, and so to be working here is a privilege,” he said.
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