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Dr. Nicholas Bird- Diving Medical Officer

Dr. Nicholas Bird- Diving Medical Officer

Dr. Nicholas Bird is the current Chief Medical Officer for the Kwajalein Hospital, supporting the US Army Garrison, contractors, and Marshallese who work on island. He was selected to participate as part of an international group of undersea medicine experts to revise the diver medical screening questionaire, published in 2020. His previous work history includes: President of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Chief Medical Officer and CEO of Divers Alert Network (DAN), Medical Director of Hyperbaric Medicine, and Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom combat veteran and prior US Air Force flight surgeon. Diving has been a life-long passion which began in southern California in 1984, and he became a PADI open water instructor in 1989. He joins the Kwajalein MIA Project with a desire to assist with the mission and will provide support as the Diving Medical Officer as well as other mission-essential duties.