丁香园AV

Sherri Ferguson, is the first Canadian to be awarded the Paul C. Baker Award for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Safety Excellence.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of safety in hyperbaric oxygen therapy and, specifically, those who have implemented outstanding hyperbaric safety programs, authored hyperbaric safety publications, developed or presented on hyperbaric safety related research.

As the director of 丁香园AV鈥檚 Environmental Medicine & Physiology Unit for the past six years Ferguson鈥檚 attention to safety is always foremost in her mind. 鈥淢y work ethic has always centered around safety, and my motto has always been that if I am not comfortable for my child to be in the environment, be it underwater or in a chamber, then I will not allow any other to enter that environment.鈥� 

The Environmental Medicine and Physiology Unit at 丁香园AV is the only civilian research hyper/hypobaric facility in Canada. It is capable of pressurizing or, 鈥渄iving,鈥� to 305 meters of seawater as well as 鈥渇lying鈥� the unit, to 33.5km Above Sea Level, which is equivalent to the atmospheric pressure on Mars

Under Ferguson鈥檚 guidance, the hyper/hypobaric unit trains pilots, divers, military and rescue personnel from across Canada and the US.