Andrew Kirkpatrick CD MD MHSc FRCSC FACS

Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine,
University of Calgary
General, Acute Care, and Trauma Surgery,
Foothills Medical Centre

Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary and the former Director of 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 and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia.

He is past President of the Trauma Association of Canada and Abdominal Compartment Society. Dr. Kirkpatrick has more than 560 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mainly concerning telemedicine, intra-abdominal hypertension, and aerospace medicine. 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 Association of General Surgeons Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery Committees. He has consulted for the Canadian Space Agency and the National Space and Aeronautical Agencies. He retains a reserve commission in the Canadian Forces and has served oversees in both Gulf War One and in Afghanistan. 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 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03163095), and the Director of the TeleMentored Ultrasound Supported Medical Interventions (TMUSMI) Research Group.