NOGI

:: Alfred Bove, M.D., Ph.D. - Science - 1994

Dr. Bove has been diving since 1960 and continues as an active sport diver. He was certified as a YMCA diving instructor in 1964, and as a NAUI instructor in 1973. He is a lifetime NAUI instructor. He was a diving medical officer in the U.S. Navy assigned to the Naval Medical Research Institute from July 1971 to June 1973. During this time he published, with two co-investigators, numerous articles on decompression sickness, discovered a mechanism for spinal cord decompression sickness, and developed adjunctive therapy for decompression sickness which is standard therapy today. With his co-investigators (J.M. Hallenbeck, D.H. Elliott), Dr. Bove received the Stover-Link award of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical society for contributions to diving research in 1975. Dr. Bove maintained his Naval career as a diving medical officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, where he worked with Naval Reserve diving units, and acts as a lecturer for the U.S. Naval Diving and Salvage Training Institute undersea medical officer program. He retired from Naval duty in 1998. Dr. Bove is a guest lecturer for the undersea medical officer program of the Canadian Navy.

In 1984, he was elected president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), and from 1980 to 1983 was the chairman of the education

committee of the UHMS. Dr. Bove was the chairman of the 9th symposium on Undersea Physiology held in Kobe, Japan in 1986, and was co-author of the proceedings of this meeting. As chairman of the UHMS diving committee (1990-1992), Dr. Bove instituted a seminar for divers at the annual meetings of the UHMS. He is the Course director of Temple University Underwater Medicine, a diving medicine post-graduate program which has trained over 400 physicians in diving medicine over 33 years. He is a member of Undersea and Hyperbaric examination committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Bove has made significant contributions to the health and safety of sport divers as medical editor of Skin Diver magazine where he wrote a monthly diving medicine column from 1981 to 1999 when the magazine closed. He was awarded the Craig Hoffman award of the UHMS in 1988 for his contributions to the health and safety of divers, and the NOGI award for science in 1995. He received the Paul Dudley White award of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in 1998 for cardiovascular work related to diving. He has been the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the UHMS (1992), the European Undersea Biomedical Society (1981), and The South Pacific Undersea Medical Society (1982, 1995). He is the author of over 250 scientific articles including 30 on diving medicine and physiology, 8 book chapters on diving medicine and physiology. He is the Editor of the textbook Diving Medicine, with its 4th edition published in 2004, and maintains the diving medicine website www.scubamed.com where he provides medical information and advice for sport divers and others interested in diving medicine.

Dr. Bove is a practicing cardiologist, and the Chief of Cardiology at Temple University Medical School. He has made numerous contributions to the literature in cardiovascular medicine and physiology, has authored a textbook on coronary disease, and a text on exercise physiology and medicine. He was president of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American College of Cardiology (1990-1991), and co-chair of the 1987 Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. He has served on numerous committees of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. He is the editor in chief of the education website of the American College of Cardiology www.cardiosource.com, and a member of the board of trustees of the American College of Cardiology where he serves as Vice President of the organization. Dr. Bove is a member of the National Basketball Association Physicians Society, and serves as the cardiologist for the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. Dr. Bove is considered a national expert on cardiovascular disorders and diving, and consults for the US Navy, the National Academy of Science, NOAA, and the Divers Alert Network (DAN).

Dr. Bove is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.