Gordon Ward is the Director of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy facilities located at the Edmonton General Hospital and the Alberta Professional Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

Leaving over a dozen years in a career with a multinational engineering company and as a consultant internationally, he developed an interest in hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the 1990's. At the time , as a parent of a brain injured child and the President of the Cerebral Palsy Society, he could not personally dispute the results he witnessed in brain damaged children.

After extensive academic preparation, he founded Canadian Hyperbarics, a hyperbaric facility dedicated to permitting access to an internationally recognized, viable therapeutic modality for conditions that are either denied or prohibited treatment at public hyperbaric facilities in Canada.

His personal training is unparalleled in Canada. He currently presides as the President of the Canadian Association of Hyperbarics.

Qualifications:

-Gases & Chamber Operation
-Chamber Life Support Systems
-Emergency Medical Procedures
-Recompression Therapy for Diving Accidents
-Multi-Place Chamber Operations
-Life Support Systems & Medical Equipment in the Hyperbaric Environment

Studied/Apprenticed under:

Eric P. Kindwall MD - Sr. Diving Officer RET/Assistant Director; US Navy School of Submarine Medicine, - Chief, HyperbaricMedicine. Dept. Plastic & Reconst. Surgery/Pharmacology & Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, - Past President; Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

Cmdr William A. Bateman CD, MD, DavMed - Head; Aerospace Life Support Sector, DCIEM - Specialist; Emergency Medicine - Instructor; Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

A.Wayne Evans MD, HBSc. - Medical Director; TGH, Dept Hyperbaric Medicine - Assist. Prof.; Dept Anesthesia, U of T -Clinical Medical Examiner.

G. Helge Koch MD, ACBOM,CHT - Med. Dir RET;TGH, Dept Hyperbaric Medicine - Consultant, Diving/Hyperbaric/Occupational Med. - Dive Medical Officer, DCIEM.

Dick Rutkowski - Deputy Diving Coodinator; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration - Founder & Director; NOAA Diving/Hyperbaric Training Facility - Co-Director; NOAA/UHMS Physician Dive/Hyperbaric Training

James H. Wilson CHT - Hyperbaric Engineer - Safety Director: TGH, Dept Hyperbaric Medicine - Contributor/Author; Canadian Standards Associations for Hyperbaric Facilities.

....and many other internationally accredited civilain and military hyperbaric experts.

Associations:

-Member, International Board of Undersea Medicine.
-Associate Member, Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society.
-Founding Member, Canadian Association of Hyperbarics.
-President, Canadian Association of Hyperbarics.

Academic training:

-Barotech, Hyperbaric Manufacturing, Las Vegas, Nevada
-Toronto General Hospital, Dept of Hyperbaric Medicine, Toronto, Ont.
-Seagram Sports Science Centre, Cleghorn Hyperbaric Oxygen Lab, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
-Hyperbarics International, Key Largo, Florida.

Certifications:

-Hyperbaric Chamber Operator
-Certified Hyperbaric Technologist
-Hyperbaric Instructor/Training Facility

Regardless of the academic credentials or the professional positions held in hyperbaric therapy, Gordon Ward was and remains the father of a brain injured child. After his son proved that HBO was a viable and valued therapeutic modality for Cerebral Palsy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy became a passion.