The TeleMentored Ultrasound Supported Medical Interventions (TMUSMI) Project
Title:Â The TeleMentored Ultrasound Supported Medical Interventions (TMUSMI) Project: Spinning off Space Medicine Roots to Empower Point of Care Resuscitation for the Planet
Speaker: ANDREW W. KIRKPATRICK, CD., M.D., M.H.Sc., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Kirkpatrick is a Professor in both the Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the Foothills Medical Centre of the University of Calgary,and the former Medical Director of Regional Trauma Services.
Dr. Kirkpatrick graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Ottawa, with fellowships in Surgery and Critical Care at the University of Toronto with a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia.
He is a past President of the Trauma Asociation of Canada and the Abdominal Compartment Society. Dr. Kirkpatrick has more than 475 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mainly concerning intra-abdominal hypertension, emergency sonography, hypothermia, aerospace medicine and occult pneumothoraces. He is a past-President of the Trauma Association of Canada and the Abdominal Compartment Society, as well as past executive member of the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society and the Canadian Asociation of General Surgeons Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery Committees. He has consulted for the Canadian Space Agency and the National Space and Aeronautiocal Agencies. He retains a reserve commision in the Canadian Forces and has served oversees on several occasions. He is a former Paratrooper and Flight Surgeon and currently maintains a private pilots license. He has completed over 500 parabolas of parabolic flight research. He is also the Global Principal Investigator for the Closed or Open after Laparotomy for Source Control or COOL Trial (), and the Director of the TeleMentored Ultrasiound Supported Medical Interventions (TMUSMI) Reseach Group.
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Meeting ID: 879 8203 5489