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Regenerative & Hyperbaric Medicine Clinical Team
Medical Director (Cumming, Georgia)
Joni Hodgson
DO, UHM/ABPM
Dr. Hodgson graduated from the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007.
She served in the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon at Vance Air Force Base, where she met her husband, an Air Force pilot, and went on to complete a Family Medicine residency at David Grant Medical Center in Fairfield, CA. After residency, she completed a four-year tour at Randolph Air Force Base before being hand-picked to join the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Program. Dr. Hodgson was the first graduate of the Program since it moved to the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. After fellowship, Dr. Hodgson, now a Lt. Col. in the Air Force, became the Associate Program Medical Director of the Undersea & Hyperbarics Program at BAMC before joining the 165th Airlift Wing in Savannah, GA as a seasoned Flight Surgeon. Dr. Hodgson joined Regenerative & Hyperbaric Medicine in 2020 and is now the Medical Director at our Center in Cumming, Georgia. She has three daughters (Alice, Claire, and Savannah), and her husband now works for Delta Air Lines. Dr. Hodgson has recently upgraded to a full-fledged Soccer Mom.
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Undergraduate SchoolUniversity of Oklahoma- Medical SchoolOklahoma State College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Traditional Osteopathic InternshipDoctor's Hospital in Massillon, Ohio
- Flight Surgeon Active Duty TourVance Air Force Base
- ResidencyFamily Medicine at David Grant Medical Center/Travis Air Force Base
- Board Certified in Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family Medicine
- Flight Surgeon and Chief Flight Surgeon Active Duty TourRandolph Air Force Base
- FellowshipUndersea & Hyperbaric Medicine at Brooke Army Medical Center
- Subspecialty Board Certified in Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine (UHM/ABPM)American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Prior Undersea & Hyperbarics Associate Program DirectorBrooke Army Medical Center
- Traditional Air National Guardsmen Senior Flight Surgeon165th Medical Group, Savannah, GA
Medical Director (Sandy Springs, Georgia)
Daniel J. Beless
MD, FACCWS, FACEP, UHM/ABPM
Dr. Beless is the current Medical Director at Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia in Sandy Springs wound care center in Atlanta and has been an active member of Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia since 1998.
He previously served as Director at Crawford Long Emergency Department for over 13 years and is also the former Director of the Crawford Long Hospital Hyperbaric Medicine Unit. Dr. Beless was on faculty of Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine and is still active in lecturing for the Emory University Medical School and residency programs on hyperbaric medicine and advanced wound care therapy.
- Medical SchoolEmory University School of Medicine
- Internship/ResidencySurgery/Emergency Medicine at Grady Hospital/Emory University Affiliated Hospitals
- Board Certified in Emergency Medicine x 30 years
- Prior Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP)
- Fellow of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists (FACCWS)
- Subspecialty Board Certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (UHM/ABPM)
Regenerative & Hyperbaric Medicine Executive Team
Dr. Gelly has been involved in hyperbaric medicine and wound care since 1991.
Dr. Gelly has been involved in hyperbaric medicine and wound care since 1991. Past positions have included Medical Directorships at academic and community hyperbaric medicine and wound care programs. She started a non-hospital-affiliated hyperbaric medicine center, which was one of the first Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) accredited centers. She has been actively involved in billing and reimbursement issues for both facilities and physicians. Until recently, she was the Medical Director of Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia, a group of physicians dedicated to the practice of hyperbaric medicine and wound healing, with four subspecialty-boarded physicians in its membership. In addition to lecturing nationally on hyperbaric medicine and wound healing for many years, she was the president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the UHMS from 2005-2007. Currently, she serves as the President of Regenerative & Hyperbaric Medicine, Emeritus Medical Director of Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia, and as CEO for HyperbaRXs.
- Medical SchoolEmory University School of Medicine
- Internship/ResidencyPediatrics/Emergency Medicine at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals
- Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
- Fellow of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists
- Subspecialty Certified Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
- Recipient of the UHMS Gulf Coast Chapter, Charles W. Shelling Award 2003, for contributions to clinical hyperbaric medicine
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of MedicineAttending Faculty, 1984-1998
- UHMS Excellence in Hyperbaric Medicine, 2014
Wound Care & Hyperbaric Therapy Physician
Helen Gelly
MD, FACCWS, FUHM, UHM/ABPM
President
Parul Patel
MD
Dr. Patel graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1991. She finished one year of General Surgery internship at UTHSCSA. She completed a three-year residency in Anesthesia at Baylor College of Medicine. After this, she decided to change fields to Family Practice. She graduated from Family Practice residency in 1998 from UT Health Center in Houston. She has been board-certified in Family Medicine since then.
Dr. Patel joined Fairfield Medical Center in Cypress, Texas, and was in private practice there for 15 years. During this time, she was exposed to wound care and hyperbaric medicine as a referring physician. She found the field intriguing as it combined her previous surgical and anesthesia skills with the experience she had gained from the medical management of her family practice patients. She became certified in Wound Care in February 2025. Dr. Patel is excited to be joining Regenerative & Hyperbaric Medicine and is beginning to feel at home in Atlanta.
She is the mother of a son named Ryan and has twin daughters named Meena and Megan. She is the mother-in-law to Victoria and “grandma“ to grand-dog Max.
- Medical SchoolUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- General Surgery InternshipUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Anesthesia ResidencyBaylor College of Medicine
- Family Practice ResidencyUniversity of Texas Health Center, Houston
- Board Certified in Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family Medicine
- Certified in Wound Care
Chief Financial Officer
John Ellis
CPA
John has spent over 32 years in public and private accounting.
Director of Biomedical Safety and Technical Services
Greg Brown
Greg has over 30 years of medical, diving, and senior management experience in the military and corporate industries.
He served for over 19 years in the United States Army and National Guard, during which time he became a certified Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT), a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist (CHT), and a trained Critical Care Paramedic. After his military service, he obtained his bachelor of science degree and his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2018.
His hyperbaric career started in 2009, working at a monoplace and then a 24/7 critical care multiplace hyperbaric facility. In 2017, Greg was recruited by The Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, where he helped coordinate research projects and published on topics including bacteria & viruses and diving equipment. Since then, he has held positions as Chamber Specialist, Safety Director, and Program Director. Currently, he is a UHMS Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Surveyor and sits on the Board of Directors for the National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology (NBDHMT).
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