Sherri Ferguson

Sherri Ferguson is the director of research and quality improvement for the Hyperbaric Unit at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). Prior to joining VGH, she was leading the Environmental Medicine and Physiology Unit at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada’s only civilian hyperbaric and hypobaric research facility. She obtained her master’s degree in biomedical physiology from SFU.

Her research interests focus on the effects of oxygen pressure on physiology and cognition, including aerospace, diving and hyperbaric medicine. She is a research scholar with the Divers Alert Network and the president of Shanfe Research and Consulting Ltd. Ferguson is also a member of the executive board of directors of the Canadian Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Association, and the Chair of the Canadian Standards Association Committee Z725.1 on Hyperbaric and Compressed Air Environments.