Chief, Division of General, Vascular, and Transplant Anesthesia
Medical Director, Hyperbaric Center

• Anesthesiology / GVTU Division
• Medicine / Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Address
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone
919-684-6726

Office Telephone
919-684-8762

Fax Telephone
919-681-4698

• MD, McGill University Faculty of Medicine (Canada), 1973

• Medicine, Toronto General Hospital (Canada), 1974-1975
• Medicine, Sunnybrook Medical Center (Canada), 1977-1978
• Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1981-1983

• Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Engineering Medical Research Council, University of Toronto (Canada), 1975-1979
• Pulmonary Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1979-1981

Clinical Interests
General anesthesiology, undersea and hyperbaric medicine

Research Interests
Research interests include the study of cardiorespiratory function in humans exposed to environmental conditions ranging from 200 feet of seawater depth to high altitude, gas exchange during diving, the pathophysiology of high altitude pulmonary edema and the effect of anesthesia and postoperative analgesia on pulmonary function. Ongoing human studies include the use of fractals to study breathing patterns during environmental and perioperative stress, and mechanisms of immersion pulmonary edema.

Representative Publications
Moon RE, Gray LL. Breath-hold diving and cerebral decompression illness. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;37(1):1-5. (2010) Abstract

Peacher DF, Pecorella SR, Freiberger JJ, Natoli MJ, Schinazi EA, Doar PO, Boso AE, Walker AJ, Gill M, Kernagis D, Uguccioni D, Moon RE. Effects of hyperoxia on ventilation and pulmonary hemodynamics during immersed prone exercise at 4.7 ATA: possible implications for immersion pulmonary edema. J Appl Physiol. 2010 Jul;109(1):68-78. (2010) Abstract

Cherry AD, Forkner IF, Frederick HJ, Natoli MJ, Schinazi EA, Longphre JP, Conard JL, White WD, Freiberger JJ, Stolp BW, Pollock NW, Doar PO, Boso AE, Alford EL, Walker AJ, Ma AC, Rhodes MA, Moon RE. Predictors of increased PaCO2 during immersed prone exercise at 4.7 ATA. J Appl Physiol. 2009 Jan;106(1):316-25. (2009) Abstract

Moon RE, Cherry AD, Stolp BW, Camporesi EM. Pulmonary gas exchange in diving. J Appl Physiol. 2009 Feb;106(2):668-77. (2009) Abstract

Wester TE, Cherry AD, Pollock NW, Freiberger JJ, Natoli MJ, Schinazi EA, Doar PO, Boso AE, Alford EL, Walker AJ, Uguccioni DM, Kernagis D, Moon RE. Effects of head and body cooling on hemodynamics during immersed prone exercise at 1 ATA. J Appl Physiol. 2009 Feb;106(2):691-700. (2009) Abstract

Forkner IF, Piantadosi CA, Scafetta N, Moon RE. Hyperoxia-induced tissue hypoxia: a danger? Anesthesiology. 2007 May;106(5):1051-5. (2007) Abstract

Scafetta N, Moon RE, West BJ. Fractal response of physiological signals to stress conditions, environmental changes, and neurodegenerative diseases. Complexity 2007 May/June;12(5):12-17. (2007)

Moon RE. Nitroglycerine: relief from the heartache of decompression sickness? J Appl Physiol. 2006 Dec;101(6):1537-1538. (2006) Abstract

Moon RE. Bubbles in the brain: what to do for arterial gas embolism? Crit Care Med. 2005 Apr;33(4):909-10. (2005) Abstract

Mummery HJ, Stolp BW, deL Dear G, Doar PO, Natoli MJ, Boso AE, Archibald JD, Hobbs GW, El-Moalem HE, Moon RE. Effects of age and exercise on physiological dead space during simulated dives at 2.8 ATA. J Appl Physiol. 2003 Feb;94(2):507-17. (2003) Abstract