Christopher Grant,

CHWCS, CHT

Christopher Grant began his career in 1982 in Ohio as a professional diver and instructor for various college and university science programs. In 1986 he enlisted in the United States Navy and became a Hospital Corpsman and was attached to field hospital units and various Marine Corps units.

During this era Chris’ association with hyperbarics started in Tobermory, Canada with a university project studying the effects of nitrogen narcosis on deep divers. He also participated in the development of the first dive computer which revolutionized scuba diving safety. In 1988, he moved to California to teach diving and was attached to 3rd Anglo Marine Corps Airborne unit.

In 1989, Chris moved to Florida and began working for the Florida State University Academic Dive Program, holding positions of Instructor Coordinator, Safety Officer and Diving Supervisor. Later he earned the title of Hyperbaric Chamber Coordinator after developing a hyperbaric program for research, education and emergency use on project sites. During this time he was attached to the Navy’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit, Detachment 608.

He became involved in clinical hyperbaric medicine in 1990 at a hospital multiplace-chamber facility and was involved in operations, maintenance, treatment of critical care patients and developed research projects with the university science diving program. During this time he became an Emergency Medical Technician and shortly after became a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist.

While completing his Bachelor of Science degree in Health Education from Florida State University, Chris developed the first scuba diving safety awareness program for the State of Florida which was adopted by the Diving Equipment and Manufacturing Association (DEMA) and published in three languages. In addition he implemented the first meeting in history between a State Government and DEMA to collaborate on diver safety and injury prevention. After graduating from Florida State in 1994, he became the Editor of SCUBA Times Magazine which placed him at the top of the diving and hyperbaric political world. During this tenure he founded what has now become one of the most comprehensive diving and undersea medical resources in the World, www.Scuba-Doc.com.

In 1997, Chris opened the country’s first non-hospital owned multiplace hyperbaric emergency clinic and wound care center. Due to its location in Florida, the facility became a premier dive injury treatment facility for deep cave divers. He implemented the use of mixed-gas in the treatment of divers who were injured validating new dive tables and new breathing mixtures.  During this time he became a CHT Course Instructor and developed a training program on Nitrogen Narcosis Awareness for Law Enforcement dive teams and Disney Dive Researchers. This was also the beginning of his consulting career for other hyperbaric programs including the Divers Alert Network Global Chamber Program.

He moved to Georgia in 1999 to turn around a troubled multiplace hyperbaric program. After successfully resolving the program’s issues, Chris formally pursued his vision of building his own hyperbaric company to provide consulting and other services. In 2002, he founded Professional Hyperbaric Associates, Inc. and developed his own hyperbaric clinic, ProHBO. Here he tested and proved various methods and methodologies of treating patients and operating a safe and professional hyperbaric program.

In 2003, Chris developed a lecture and workshop, How to Start your own Business, which is given four times per year for award wining Career Care Seminar Series and is a speaker for SCORE and American Express on Starting Your Own Business and related topics. He also became an advisor to the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners for Georgia and later, the Pentagon.

Chris founded ProVision Hyperbaric, LLC in 2008 to help hospitals and private practitioners establish their own hyperbaric medical treatment center and assist existing hyperbaric programs to become more successful, efficient, and eliminate the need for costly managed contracts. In addition, he formed the non-profit Global Hyperbaric Medical Alliance, Inc. to provide financial assistance to patients who cannot afford HBOT, provide resources and education on HBOT and provide a research platform for the expansion of hyperbaric medicine.

In 2009, by unanimous vote, Chris was appointed to the Executive Committee Board of Directors for the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. Within this role Chris is assisting with the expansion of certification training for technicians and physicians, as well as evolving the field of hyperbaric medicine.