Andriy Batchinsky

Dr. Batchinsky is a board-certified general surgeon who received his M.D. degree from Uzhgorod State University in the Ukraine. He did his general surgery specialty training in the Lviv State Medical Institute Faculty for Postgraduate Education (1994-1996) and worked as a staff surgeon in the Uzhgorod Municipal Clinical Hospital rendering general surgery as well as emergency/trauma surgery services. In addition to his general surgical practice, he completed cardiac pacing and endoscopic specializations. At present, Dr. Batchinsky is a staff research scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Combat Critical Care Engineering Task Area. Dr. Batchinsky pioneered application of nonlinear analysis techniques to investigation of cardiovascular regulatory complexity during hemorrhagic shock, burn shock and resuscitation, combined trauma animal models, as well as for non-invasive assessment of trauma patients. He is currently working on developing the first real-time tool for analysis of heart rate complexity as a reflection of changes in the state of the critically injured. His other research interests are cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology as applicable to trauma and critical states. Dr. Batchinsky is a reviewer for multiple scientific journals and a member of the Society for Experimental Biology in Medicine, American Physiologic Society, Shock Society, and Society for Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Complexity in Acute Illness. Dr. Batchinsky has authored and co-authored multiple publications and peer-reviewed presentations featured both nationally and internationally.