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Dr. Cuauhtemoc Sanchez R. “Cuau”
Dive Medical Translator and UHMS Organizer
A physician, professor, author and lecturer based in
Mexico, Dr. Sánchez graduated from the National Autonomous
University of México (UNAM) School of Medicine in 1983. A
certified diver since 1986, he was an international Hyperbaric
Fellow at the University of Maryland's R. Adams
Cowley Shock Trauma Center from 1991-1994.
While in the United States he voluntarily translated volumes of
materials for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS).
Returning to his native Mexico in 1994, he organized the first
Latin America chapter of the UHMS. He also guided the Hospital
del Pedregal in Mexico City in opening the city's first
hyperbaric medicine unit in 1997, where he works as its medical
director. In 2000 he developed an accredited Spanish hyperbaric
medicine course at UNAM, where he serves as its professor.
Dr. Sánchez volunteered to begin DAN programs in Mexico in 1995.
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1997 he organized a regional office then called
DAN-America Mexico to promote DAN membership, training and dive safety
programs. He has held presentations on the role of DAN in dive
medicine and dive safety and contributed extensively to
translating and revising DAN promotional, membership and
training materials in Spanish without payment.
In 1999 Dr. Sánchez designed and helped organize the DAN Latin
America Dive Emergency Hotline. He recruited Latin America
physicians to serve as the hotline's volunteer regional
directors and identified chambers and physicians that would
provide dive emergency service in Spanish and Portuguese. The
regional directors collaborate regularly with DAN America's
Medical Services department to handle dive medicine questions
and the International Department to promote DAN programs and
services in Latin America. Dr. Sánchez currently is director of
DAN Mexico and co-executive director of the emergency hotline
for DAN Latin America.
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