Donna Uggicioni is a diving physiologist and the Research Coordinator for the Divers Alert Network. Her research interests focus on dive safety and education in recreational scuba diving and she has been an important member of the DAN research and medical staff for 12 years. Donna collects and coordinates data on a number of major studies such as diabetes research, recreational dive professionals and technical diving. Donna is also a prolific writer, an EMT, CHT, and DMT, and a research technician who assists at the Duke University Hyperbaric Chamber and participates in chamber studies as a Doppler or TEE technician.