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James Killeen, MD, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who specializes in undersea and hyperbaric medicine. He has expertise in preventing and treating disease and injury in divers and individuals who work in altered atmospheric environments. At UC San Diego Healths Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Program, Dr. Killeen assesses a persons fitness to dive, treats diving accidents, and employs hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to treat conditions such as decompression illness, carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds, and tissue damage from radiation, burns or infection. Dr. Killeen is the director of Information Technology Services for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the chief medical officer for San Diego Health Connect. He helped design and implement the first health information exchange at UC San Diego Health that allows providers to access clinical information about patients from other treatment facilities. Dr. Killeen also helped implement the San Diego emergency medicine system (EMS) hub that links EMS patient records to hospitals in real-time.Dr. Killeen completed his residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana and earned his medical degree from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and hyperbaric medicine.UC San Diego Health LinksFor more information, see http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/emergency-services/Pages/default.aspx or http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/surgery/trauma-burn/Pages/default.aspx.