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.
Rachel Clark | Practice Manager
Rachel Clark is the Practice Manager for Harch HBOT, overseeing the practice’s business administration functions.
Rachel graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1998, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and winner of the Ames Moot Court competition. She has extensive experience as a litigator specializing in appellate law. Rachel clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced at one of the nation’s premiere law firms, litigating in state and federal district courts, appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court. Prior to law school, Rachel was a management consultant at a top consulting firm, traveling internationally and domestically to client sites, and advising Fortune 500 companies on business strategy. Rachel graduated from Wellesley College with a BA, Magna Cum Laude, in 1991. She also has years of experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur.
At Harch HBOT, Rachel began as a consultant for several years, before joining the practice full-time in 2021. She has performed patient care coordinator duties and broader business administration. She now manages the administrative staff and oversees the day-to-day business operations. She played a key role in launching our new clinic, including contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, and business implementation. She works with the Harch HBOT Board of Directors regarding legal and business matters including strategic business development as we aim to expand the reach of Harch HBOT’s individualized approach to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Hans Lischka | Clinic Director
Hans Lischka is the Clinic Director for Harch HBOT. He is a certified Paramedic and serves as Harch HBOT’s Chief Hyperbaric Technologist and Safety Director. He is one of the most, if not the most, experienced CHTs in the world treating chronic and acute neurological conditions. Under Dr. Harch’s direction, he has assisted in the development of the chamber adaptations and individualized dosing protocols that are revolutionizing the treatment of global ischemia seen in severely birth-injured and drowned children.
Hans graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with an Associate of Science degree in Underwater Technology. He received additional certificates in Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine from National Baromedical Services in Columbia, South Carolina; and Hyperbaric Safety Director, and Hyperbaric Medicine Team Training for Animal Applications from International ATMO. He also 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 Technicians 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, Hans spent ten years in the commercial diving field with Taylor Diving and Salvage. He 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 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 Medical Center in the wound care and hyperbaric department as a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist and inside attendant and operator on a multi-place hyperbaric chamber.
Since 2009, Hans has been the lead CHT at Harch HBOT, treating the entire spectrum of mild-severe neurological conditions as well as other chronic and acute injuries and diseases. He 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 Long-Term Care Program.