Dennis F. Filips

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.