Dennis F. Filips

Biography

Dr. Filips, is the principal founder, Vice-Chairman, President, and CMO of iTraumaCare. Dr. Filips, a trauma surgeon, retired from the Canadian Forces (CF) after 20 years of service, completing tours in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and the Golan Heights. He created the Tactical Combat Casualty Care training program, created and chaired the Combat Casualty Working Group for the Canadian Forces, and was a member of the Combat Casualty Care research steering committee for Canada, US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Filips recently carried out consulting research work for Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) on combat injury assessment and prevention research. Prior to this he published research findings on hypertonic fluid resuscitation and hemorrhage control with tourniquets. Dr. Filips is currently serving as a course director for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses at the University of Alberta and Tactical Medicine courses for the military and tactical police. He also worked in Haiti with the Red Cross as the chief surgeon at the Notre Dame Hospital in Petit Goave post-earthquake, and is a member of the management team for the Canadian Red Cross rapid deployment field hospital. He has practiced trauma and general surgery at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto, St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In addition to a trauma fellowship at Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, ON in 2002, he has completed several military trauma-training courses in Los Angeles, CA, Geneva, Switzerland, and London, UK. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Toronto in 2001 and medical school at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) in 1991.

Research Interest

Medical Science