Our Medical Team
Dr Paul G Harch | MD, Hyperbaric Expert
Dr. Paul Harch is a world-renowned HBOT expert, and his treatment program for his patients is unmatched. He has used hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat more than 100 different conditions, including stroke, dementia, autism, and traumatic brain injury. His goal is to help his patients get their lives back using hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Dr. Paul G. Harch, M.D. is a clinician in emergency medicine and hyperbaric medicine who is the former director of the University Medical Center Hyperbaric Medicine Department and LSU Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship. Currently, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Section of Emergency Medicine at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine after graduating from the University of California at Irvine with magna cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Juliette Lucarini Harch | RN
Juliette Lucarini Harch, RN is a partner/owner of Harch HBOT who, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was primarily responsible for the rebuilding of Harch HBOT and Dr. Harch’s practice in New Orleans. She assumed Dr Harch’s role as the initial medical interface and triage expert for all new patients, re-established the administrative office, hired and trained all new employees, and provided private duty nursing service and hyperbaric treatment for severely injured patients. In 2016, she created a mobile hyperbaric service where she flew internationally for five months with the Harch HBOT team treating a VIP client in his worldwide business travels. She expanded this service, founding the Harch HBOT Concierge Program, which provides staff and hyperbaric chambers to treat patients in their homes with HBOT.
Juliette brings 40 years of compassionate medical and nursing experience to Harch HBOT. She is a Registered Nurse who received her R.N. from Long Island University at Suffolk. She has additional training and education from Long Island University at Southampton, Hahnemann University Medical School in Philadelphia (critical care), University of New Mexico, Health Coaching from Tulane University, New Orleans. She has been a medical surrogate for a medical student at Albert Einstein Medical School/Montefiore Hospital in New York City, and started a private-duty nursing service in Manhattan, which, over 25 years, provided advanced nursing to severely debilitated children and adults nationally and internationally. She has worked as Medic-On-Set for movies, been a medical consultant to network television programs. In 2014, she became a Certified Nurse Meditation Teaching Specialist at the Himalayan Institute. Juliette is also a graduate of the Sanoviv Medical Institute’s Holistic Medical Nutrition Advisor course.
After retirement in 1999, Juliette trained in multiplace hyperbaric chamber operations and rescue diving by Dick Rutkowski at Hyperbaric International and became a hyperbaric technician. She was one of the primary staff at HBOT of New Mexico in Santa Fe before joining Dr. Harch in 2005. In addition to all of her contributions to Harch HBOT, Juliette is Dr. Harch’s wife who helped raise his five children.
Hans Lischka | Chief Hyperbaric Technician, Safety Director, Advanced EMT
Hans Lischka is the Harch HBOT Chief Hyperbaric Technologist, Safety Director, and a certified AEMT-Paramedic. He is one of the most if not the most experienced CHT in the world treating chronic neurological conditions. Under Dr. Harch’s direction he has assisted in the development of the chamber modifications and dosing protocols that are revolutionizing the treatment of global ischemia seen in severely birth-injured and drowned children.
Hans graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology with an Associate of Science degree in Underwater Technology and received additional certificates in Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine from the National Baromedical Services in Columbia, South Carolina, and Hyperbaric Medicine Team Training for Animal Applications and Hyperbaric Safety Director from International ATMO. He holds certifications from the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology as a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist (CHT) and Certified Diver Medic (DMT), the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician as an EMT-Paramedic (EMT-P), International Hyperbaric Medical Association as an International Clinical Hyperbaric Technologist Tier 2 (ICHT), and American Heart Association in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (BLS/CPR).
Prior to joining Harch HBOT, Mr. Lischka spent ten years in commercial diving with Oceaneering International, was one of just a few nationally certified Diver Medical Technicians in the Gulf of Mexico, an assistant to and then interim Medical and Safety Director for Taylor Diving and Salvage, and an American Heart Association CPR and first aid instructor. He subsequently worked with Dr. Keith Van Meter at the Baromedical Research Institute of New Orleans as a Medical Research Diver and Diver Medical Technician, East Jefferson General Hospital as an ambulance service EMT and Paramedic, and West Jefferson Hospital in the wound care and hyperbaric department as a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist and inside attendant on a multi-place hyperbaric chamber.
For the past 10 years Hans has been the lead CHT treating the entire spectrum of mild-severe neurological patients in Dr. Harch’s practice and was the primary CHT in Dr. Harch’s randomized controlled mild traumatic brain injury study that was completed in March, 2018. He is also one of the co-directors of the Harch HBOT Extended Home Treatment Program.
Peter | Director of Concierge Service
Peter Lucarini is the Director of the Harch Concierge HBOT Service, a senior HBOT technician, EMT, career commercial diver, and innovator. After an experience in sport SCUBA diving, Peter obtained a commercial diving certificate from the Bayshore NY Coastal Diving Academy in 1978 and began a commercial diving career that continues to the present day. Over 35 years, he became expert in all phases of shallow-water coastal restoration diving, made numerous innovations in commercial diving equipment, techniques, and operations, achieved the position of Senior Diving Superintendent for Anchor Marine Environmental of Palm Beach, FL, and was designated an Honorary Deep Sea Diver by the United States Navy. He subsequently became an EMT, received additional hyperbaric chamber operations training with Dick Rutkowski of Hyperbarics International, and became the primary hyperbaric technician treating patients in their homes under Dr. Harch’s Concierge Service. Using his mechanical gifts and talents, he made multiple chamber customizations and design modifications that have facilitated precision dosing of HBOT in patient’s homes. In addition, Peter helped launch the Harch HBOT Extended Home Treatment Program in 2016 and became the chief installer and trainer for portable chamber operations. He overseas patient customer service for both the Concierge Service and the Extended Home Treatment Program.
Mary Ann | Administrative Assistant
Mary Ann Lucarini is our Floridian Harch Hyperbarics administrative assistant based in Palm Beach. Mary Ann is an assistant hyperbaric technician who coordinates the Harch Concierge Service scheduling and billing. Mary Ann provides exceptional customer service and organizational skills, and is great with numbers. With a personality like sunshine, Dr. Harch says “everyone loves Mary Ann.” She is an integral part of the Harch HBOT Extended Home Treatment Program, placing our team members on multiple assignments worldwide. She also assists in the construction of HBOT chambers and adaptations, she is a medical scribe, and she is CPR certified. She attended Florida Atlantic University and majored in accounting.
Aimee | CNA
Aimee Mosher is a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and hyperbaric medical technologist who is one of the principal technologists in the Harch Hyperbarics Home HBOT Concierge Service. Aimee completed her CNA education and training in 2008 at the Freedom Learning Center in Inverness, Florida and subsequently utilized her CNA skills to provide complete personal patient care in nursing homes. She subsequently became involved with case management and treatment of patients seeking help from drug addiction. In May of 2018, she was trained in multiplace hyperbaric chamber operations and received her Hyperbaric Medical Technologist Certificate from Dick Rutkowski’s Florida Hyperbaric International in Key Largo, Fl. In August 2018, she was certified by ANDI International as a Hyperbaric Chamber Operator. She has been delivering concierge home HBOT in softshell chambers to stroke, Parkinson’s, and dementia patients and hardshell HBOT to the entire spectrum of mild to severely injured babies, toddlers, and adults in Dr. Harch’s New Orleans practice and recently completed a medical mission to Africa. Aimee is CPR certified and is continuing her education at Palm Beach State College pursuing a career as a Registered Nurse.