MEET OUR TEAM

Haywood Thomson, RN, DMT, President

Haywood is a Registered Nurse and Advanced Diver Medic. He has sixteen years of experience in the medical field with ten years treating emergency decompression illness (DCI) patients. Haywood has treated over two hundred cases of DCI. He brings a vast experience treating everything from the simplest case of joint pain to the most complicated neurological DCI.

Jason C. Sniffen, DO, FACOI, FACP, FIDSA 

Dr. Sniffen is the Medical Director for HM Recompression Services. He is Board Certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. Dr. Sniffen is the first D.O. internist in the country to receive board certification from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. He has over ten years of experience treating DCI cases.  

Robert W. Sanders, MD, FACEP, FUHM 

Dr. Sanders is the Lead Hyperbaric Physician for HM Recompression Service’s Diving Medicine Phone Consultation Service. He is on-call to manage all diving emergencies that arise. Dr. Sanders is dual Board Certified in Emergency & Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. He has over twenty years of hyperbaric medical experience as a physician, DMT, and has managed multiple hospital-based and free-standing critical care hyperbaric units.

Mary Ann Thomson, Managing Director 

Mary Ann Thomson is one of the founders and Managing Director at HM Recompression Services. Her primary responsibilities are to keep everyone organized and on task with the ongoing and upcoming contracts.  She is also a devoted wife, mother and Christ follower. 

Charles Geiger, IDC, DMT

Charlie spent 24 years in the US Navy as a Deep-Sea Diving Independent Duty Corpsman. Charlie has been deployed all over the world including duty with Explosive Ordinance Disposal, Naval Ship Repair Facility in Japan, and was the Course Supervisor for the Diving Independent Duty Corpsman school. His last duty station was the Naval Experimental Diving Unit in Panama City, FL. Charlie has been running hyperbaric chambers in support of diving operations and is an expert in diving medicine. He is a senior DMT for HM Recompression Services as he brings a wealth of knowledge, skill, and experience to the team. He also works our Diver Hotline managing field care of injured divers.

Spencer West, DMT

Spencer is a field DMT for HM Recompression. He spent 6 years on active duty in the US Navy as a Navy Diver and DMT. He is also an EMT and is currently in the Naval Reserves. Spencer has a high skill level in emergency management of injured divers and is a great asset to the team. 

Jessica Dyson, DMT

Jessica is a field DMT for HM Recompression Services. She has experience as and EMT and has worked in clinical hyperbaric medicine treating decompression illness patients. Jessica has a passion for hyperbaric medicine and brings that passion into the field. Jessica is currently a full time student pursuing a degree in medicine. She may one day be a diving physician for HM Recompression Services.

Mathieu (Hoovie) Huovinen, IDC, DMT

Hoovie is currently active duty with 18 years in the US Navy. He is a part time field DMT for HM Recompression Services. His long career in the Navy was spent as a diver, field combat corpsman, and as a Deep-Sea Diving Independent Duty Corpsman. Hoovie is airborne qualified and was an instructor for Naval Special Warfare diving. He is an expert in hyperbaric and diving medicine.

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