- Home
- CMPQ
- Hyperbaric medicine
- News
- Support
- Français
- Login
Discover our new hyperbaric chamber
Emergency response and care
services for professional and recreational
divers all over the province.
Our team
Dr Julien Poitras
Emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist.
Dr Poitras has graduated from the Faculty of medicine of the Laval University in 1993. He did his diving medicine training at the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle Washington and his hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 1999.
He was one of the founding members of the hyperbaric department in 1999.
Dr Poitras is also the Head of the Emergency Department of the CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis and also the Program Director for the specialized medicine for the Laval University.
Dr Hélène D'Astous
Emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist. Dr D’Astous has graduated from the Faculty of medicine of the Laval University in 2008 and pursued her Emergency Medicine training in 2009. She did her hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 2009 and has completed her diving medicine training in Seattle in 2010.
Dr Mario Côté
Emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist. Dr Côté has graduated from the Faculty of medicine of the Sherbrooke University in 1988. I than did his diving medicine training in 1991 and 1992 at the DCIEM in Toronto to become a Diving Medical Officer with the Canadian Armed Forces. He completed his hyperbaric medicine at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas. From 1997 to 2004, he was acting as the Diving Medical Expert Consultant for the revision of the Quebec professional diving regulations. He is the diving physician for Quebec provincial police diving squad. He is also a clinical Professor at the Family Medicine Department Emergency Medicine division at the Laval University. He acts as a Diving Medical Expert for numerous commercial diving companies. Dr Côté is provincially recognized as a speaker on diving medicine. He was one of the founding members of the hyperbaric department in 1999.
Dr Sandrine Bourget
Emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist
Dr Bourget has graduated from the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University in 2004. She received her Emergency Medicine certificate from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2005. She completed her training in diving medicine at the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle Washington and her hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 2007. She is a clinical Professor at the Faculty of medicine of the Laval University.
Dr Richard Belley
Head of the hyperbaric and complex wound care department, emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist.
Dr Belley is a physician graduated from the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University , Québec, Canada. He has been an emergency medicine physician for the CSSS Alphonse Desjardins (CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis) since 1999 and he has joined the hyperbaric and wound care service in 2002. He has completed his hyperbaric training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas and his diving medicine training at the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle, Washington. He has completed his training in wound care at the International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course (IIWCC) at the University of Toronto. Dr Belley is also a clinical associate professor at the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University, Quebec city, and head of clinical research at the research center of CSSS Alphonse Desjardins (CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis). He is currently the medical director for the CSSS Alphonse Desjardins (CHAU Hôtel-Dieu Lévis) wound care and hyperbaric department. He is a former member of the board of the Canadian Association of wound Care (CAWC) and also a member of the Canadian Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (CC-UHMS)
Dr Dominique Buteau
CMPQ Director, emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist. Dr Buteau has graduated from the Faculty of medicine at the Sherbrooke University in 1993. He has completed his family medicine training at the Laval University in 1995. He has an Emergency Medicine certificate from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. In 2001 Dr Buteau completed his diving medicine traning at the NOAA facility in Seattle Washington. His hyperbaric medicine traning was done at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas. He his also a Professor at the Laval University Family Medicine Faculty and a member of the Board of Directors on the Canadian Chapter of the UHMS.
Dr Éric Legendre
Emergency, hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist.
Dr Legendre has graduated from the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University in 2004. He received his Emergency Medicine certificate from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2005.
He completed his training in diving medicine at the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle Washington and his hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 2007. He is also a clinical lecturer at the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University.
Dr François Paquet
Emergency,hyperbaric and diving medicine specialist
Dr. Paquet has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University in 1993 and was trained in diving medicine in 1999 via NOAA in Seattle and his training in hyperbaric medicine in San Antonio, Texas at the ATMO.
He was one of the founding members of the hyperbaric medicine service in 1999.
Dr. Paquet is also responsible for the complex wound care clinic (CWC) and regional coordinator of emergency measures for the healthcare agency and social services in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. He is also a medical adviser to the National Emergency Services, Chief of the emergency department at the CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis and program director of the emergency medicine specialty at Laval University.
Dr Marc de Blois
Dr Marc de Blois has graduated from the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University in 1992. He has completed his family medicine training at the faculty of medicine at the Laval University in 1994. He is an emergency physician at both the Saint Sacrement and Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis hospital. Since 2004, Dr de Blois holds a emergency medicine certificat from the College of Family Physician of Canada CFPC (EM).
Dr de Blois has completed his hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 2011.
He is also a clinical lecturer at the Faculty of medicine at the Laval University.
Dr Geneviève Martineau
Dr Geneviève Martineau has graduated from the Faculty of medicine of the Laval University in 2007 and pursued her Emergency Medicine training in 2008.
She did her hyperbaric medicine training at the Nix Medical Center in San Antonio Texas in 2011 and has completed her diving medicine training in at the NOAA Center in Seattle in 2011.
Mr Jocelyn Boisvert
Certified Hyperbaric Technician, diving and hyperbaric specialist and emergency coordinator for Centre de médecine de plongée du Québec.
Mr. Jocelyn Boisvert was a Canadian Navy Clearance Diver for 21 years. He was a supervisor, technician and a diver for the development of the DCIEM diving tables and the Canadian MCM rebreathers. He is a Certified Hyperbaric Technician since 1999 and holds a Hyperbaric Safety Director qualification with the ATMO.
He also acts as a Hyperbaric Safety Director (Locum) for the King Edwards hospital in Bermuda. He is an associate to the UHMS, a member of the Board of Director for the Canadian Chapter of the UHMS, and for the Quebec Federation of Sub-Aquatic Activities and a hyperbaric sub-comity member for the CSA. He joined the CMPQ in 2004 as the Emergency Coordinator.
Mrs Caroline Boutin
Certified Hyperbaric Respiratory Techinican, Head of the Respiratory and Hyperbaric Department
Respiratory therapists
- Manon Drolet, CHRT
- Jacques Grenier, CHRT
- Edith Jarry Inh, CHRT
- Marie-France Potvin,CHRT
- Jacinthe Simard,CHRT
- Sophie Desmarteaux, CHRT
Number of requests for 2010
- Emergency: 58
- Information: 216
- Email: 81
The Centre de médecine de plongée du Québec
Since its opening, in May 2004, the Centre de médecine de plongée du Québec has provided essential and innovative emergency response and care services for professional and recreational divers all over the province.
The 8 level II certified hyperbaric doctors are available 24/7 to provide telephone assistance to supervisors and divers during the intervention or evacuation process. They also provide telephone assistance to chamber operators during treatments, as per the Regulation respecting the professional activities that may be engaged in by a hyperbaric chamber operator.
The Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
The CHAU Hôtel Dieu de Lévis was selected to host the Centre de médecine de plongée du Québec. The centre, equipped with a hyperbaric chamber, is operated by a medical team of eight hyperbaric doctors and one emergency planning coordinator.