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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 Association of Canada and the Abdominal Compartment Society. Dr. Kirkpatrick has more than 450 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mainly concerning intra-abdominal hypertension, emergency sonography, hypothermia, aerospace medicine and occult pneumothoraces. He is the cirrent Director of the TeleMentored Ultrasound Supported Medical Interventions (TMUSMI) Research Group. He is a 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 Aeronautics and Space Administration. He retains a reserve commision in the Canadian Forces andhas served oversees on several occasions with both the Canadian Forces and non-governmental Relief Agencies. He is a former Paratrooper and Flight Surgeon and currently maintains a current pilots license. He has completed over 500 parabolas of parabolic flight research.

Dr. Raul Coimbra is the Surgeon in Chief of the Riverside University Health System (RUHS)Medical Center, Professor of Surgery at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Emeritus Professor University of California San Diego. He is also the Director of the CECORC - Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center at RUHS.

His participation in global health and international outreach is enormous. Dr. Coimbra is President of the Board of Directors for the World Coalition for Trauma Care, as well as a member of the Global Alliance for the Care of the Injured within the Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention of the World Health Organization. He has served as the Chairman of theTrauma Registry and Data Committee for the World Health Organization. In addition, Dr. Coimbra is a Past Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Past Chairman of the ACS International Injury Care Committee. He is also Past-President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, which is the premier trauma organization in the world! He is currently the Editor-in-Chief fo the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.Dr. Coimbra has more than 630 scientific publications in most clinical and experimental aspects of Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care related research.

Salomone Di Saverio is a Consultant Surgeon, performing elective General Surgery Procedures and Team Leader Consultant in Acute Care-Trauma Surgery. Previous Clinical Head for Laparoscopy in Trauma Surgery in the Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital Bologna. Formerly Consultant Colorectal in Cambridge UK. Performedmore than 6000 major surgical procedures, mainly as first operator,more than 2500 Laparoscopic & surgical oncology for gastric and colon and rectal cancer. Described & published several original or innovative surgical techniques in both open and laparoscopic surgery.