Conference Speakers

Dr. Batchinsky is a general surgeon by training and a translational scientist by passion. He received his MD degree from Uzhgorod State University and general surgery residency training at the State University in Lviv, Ukraine. After practicing as an emergency trauma surgeon in Ukraine, Dr. Batchinsky joined the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research as a National Research Council Fellow in 2001 and, subsequently in 2004, as a research scientist.

In 2014, Dr. Batchinsky transitioned to become a principal investigator at the Geneva Foundation, while remaining affiliated with the USA ISR without pay. In 2019 he became a part-time government employee via an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement (IPA) between the USA ISR and the Geneva Foundation. He remained an IPA until October of 2021.

AREVA was formed in 2019 and is devoted to prioritizing translational research focusing on combat-relevant trauma and novel critical care interventions for combat casualties during care at ground level and high altitude, using a multi-disciplinary physician-led research team.

Dr. Batchinsky has a special interest in minimally invasive wearable and expeditionary extracorporeal life-support (ECLS) for treatment of lung and multiorgan failure; resuscitation of patients with massive severe combined injuries and exsanguination using modern ECLS and developing biologically friendly heparin-free ECLS. Dr. Batchinsky is a reviewer for a number of medical journals, is a member of multiple societies, past president of the International Society for Complexity in Acute Illness, and founder and director of the Department of Translational Medicine at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine at Brooks City Base in San Antonio, Texas.