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Bruce James Derrick

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine

Selected Grants


Perfluoromethane as a Decompression Gas for Human Diving

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2025 - 2030

Applied Physiology of CNS Oxygen Toxicity: Mechanisms in Humans

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2023 - 2026

Chamber Pilot Study Plan for NASA Prebreathe Protocol

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2024 - 2025

Randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, crossover study of Trans Sodium Crocetinate in healthy volunteers exercising at altitude

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Diffusion Pharmaceuticals · 2021 - 2025

Ketone Ester Supplement for CNSOT Mitigation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2022 - 2025

Emergency Data Gathering and AlphaStroke Refinement (EDGAR)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Forest Devices, Inc. · 2019 - 2024

Integrated Diaphragmatic Function, Chemosensitivity, Erythrocyte Gas Transport and Endurance in Exercising Divers

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2021 - 2024

EDA Addition to Oxygen Toxicity Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2019 - 2021

Altitude Study

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2017 - 2021

Ketogenic Diet for Reduction of CNS Oxygen Toxicity Symptoms in Working Divers - Clin 0203 (Travel)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2018 - 2021

Ketogenic Diet for Reduction of CNS Oxygen Toxicity Symptoms in Working Divers - Clin 0202 (Other Expenses & USF)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2018 - 2021

Ketogenic Diet for Reduction of CNS Oxygen Toxicity Symptoms in Working Divers - Clin 0201 (Salary)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2017 - 2021

Does Heart Rate Variability Predict Impairment of Operational Performance in Divers?

Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command · 2019 - 2020

External Relationships


  • South Pacific Undersea Medicine Society
  • Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society

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