About our Senior Staff
Any company is only the sum of the skills and capabilities of its people. Life Support Technologies group takes great pride in the fact that we have brought together senior managers, each of whom had already made significant and pioneering contributions to the development and application of hyperbaric technology prior to joining our team.
Glenn J. Butler, President & CEO
Glenn Butler has more than 35 years experience in military and commercial diving, and clinical hyperbaric operations. He has developed and / or operated over a dozen major hospital-based Hyperbaric Medicine programs internationally.
He was a principle in the development of the New York City EMS Hyperbaric Medical Emergency Program beginning in 1980 and served as Safety Director at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center ALS multiplace chamber until 1992.
Mr. Butler was the principle consultant when LST was sole-sourced by NASA–Johnson Space Center to engineer zero gravity simulation breathing systems and develop new oxygen safety standards for the astronaut training program designed to support the Hubbell Space Telescope emergency repair mission. He continues to lead the group’s efforts in our ongoing role with NASA and other DOD clients.
Glenn Butler (CHT #-012) was a founding member of the National Board Certification for Hyperbaric Technologists and is a member of the NFPA-99 and UHMS Hyperbaric Safety Committees. He has authored several HBO related U.S. Patents and published more than 26 scientific documents.
R.W. Hamilton, Ph.D. - Vice President - Staff Training - Research & Development
Dr. Hamilton is an internationally recognized authority in deep-diving and hyperbaric physiology. He is a primary consultant in the development of decompression tables for many NATO Navy and commercial deep-diving programs. Dr. Hamilton also serves as the chairman of the international Divers Alert Network.Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Butler collaborated in the development of zero-gravity simulation techniques and Oxygen Safety for NASA and have co-authored most of the published scientific papers in this area. Dr. Hamilton’s principal role in LST is the development of staff training materials, in-service programs, IRB submittals and research protocols and publications. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and is a former editor of the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society “Pressure” magazine.
Dr. Hamilton is a member of the National Fire Protection Association- (NFPA-99) “Healthcare Facilities” Hyperbaric Facilities sub-committee. This NFPA document specifies the national standard of all hospital-based medical gas and hyperbaric facilities built in the US and most countries worldwide.
Patrick McCabe, CFO– Business Administration & Billing Services
Mr. McCabe has 40 years experience in engineering company and hospital-based clinical operations business and personnel management. Mr. McCabe directs LST contracts, business operations administration and staffing at LST facilities.
Gary E. Urteaga, Senior VP - Business Development
Gary Urteaga has been working in business development projects since 1993. Having earned a Master's degree in Economics from Florida State University, Mr. Urteaga has been an economic consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, having identified and formulated 150 investment projects and trained more than 350 business professionals in project formulation and evaluation methodologies. In 1998, Mr. Urteaga developed an investment project profile for the Center of Hyperbaric Medicine in Peru, having set a business and marketing plan to establish the technology in Peru based on medical applications and wound care, advising strongly not to commercialize HBO for quality of life promotion. The Center introduced hyperbaric medicine into the Peruvian Health and Hospital Systems. In 2005, Mr. Urteaga founded Corporación Hiperbarica, a company specialized in the provision of Hyperbaric systems, professional training and turn key HBO operations, having placed Hyperbaric Chambers at Hospital de la Solidaridad for low income families.
After earning a Master in International Political Economy from Tsukuba University in Japan, Mr. Urteaga achieved 2nd place in the prestigious JAPAN MARKET ENTRY COMPETITION in 2005, with a project for a Swedish bio-technology company. In 2006, Mr. Urteaga partnered with Hungarian Bus Manufacturer to incorporate IKARUS LATIN AMERICA, formulating sustainable transportation projects based on natural gas buses in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Mexico.
In 2006, Mr. Urteaga teamed up with Life Support Technologies for the creation of Advanced Hyperbaric Technologies. AHT aims to design and manufacture low cost, high quality and technology hyperbaric chambers with the highest safety standards for world wide distribution. The first 2 Alpha prototypes are undergoing final testing and the project for Prototype Beta is in under formulation, including FDA approval paperwork. AHT integrates a proprietary LST Control System Design with mechanical engineering components and parts from South America and Asia.
In 2007, Mr. Urteaga was invited to participate in the prestigious Strategy and Defense Policy Program of the Center of Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. as an Alumni of the Master's Program in Development and Defense of the Center of Advanced National studies of Peru and the Government Institute of San Martin de Porres University in Lima.
Michael W. Allen, Senior Vice President – Operations & Safety
Mike Allen has more than 35 years professional experience in the field of hyperbaric medicine and physiology beginning with air, mixed-gas and saturation deep-diving techniques and equipment development, and management of oil-industry sponsored deep dive programs to 1500 feet sea-water.
In 1977 his interest shifted to the potential offered by hyperbaric oxygen therapy in clinical applications. Since then he has been responsible for the development of four clinical monoplace chamber designs for critical-care and non-critical applications that are now sold internationally. He has authored many safety and operational policies, procedures and protocols used daily in clinical hyperbaric operations. He has co-authored two training and reference manuals and several papers on the subject of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and regularly presents at accredited courses on the principles and safe practice of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
He pioneered the application of HBO to the management of uncompromised traumatic (sports) injury, and continues to be actively involved in the identification and development of new clinical applications for HBO. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA), and an associate member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). He was also a founding member of the technical working party which formulated the first edition of a hyperbaric safety document on behalf of the British Hyperbaric Association entitled “Guide to Fire Safety Standards for Hyperbaric Treatment Centres” July 1996
Mike Allen is an active member of the ASME pressure vessel safety standard “Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy” (PVHO) Main Committee and governing Sub-Committees for General Requirements (Vice Chair), Design, Viewports, Piping Systems, Post Construction (PVHO 2). He is currently Chairman of the Medical Systems sub- committee which is focused on mono- and multiplace chambers designed for clinical purposes.
Key Clinical and Technical Staff
All LST managed programs are staffed by an experienced clinical support / HBO Unit manager. We have been fortunate to train most of the National Board Certified Hyperbaric Technologists (CHT) in the Tri-State area. All LST personnel receive hands-on training at our wound care and hyperbaric facility at the Mount Vernon Hospital in New York.
Life Support Technologies Inc., is committed to increasing the utilization of clinical hyperbaric technology through the use of solid engineering practice and medical science.
