Dr. Batchinsky is a board-certified general surgeon who received his M.D. degree from Uzhgorod StateUniversity in the Ukraine. He did his general surgery specialty training in the Lviv State Medical InstituteFaculty for Postgraduate Education (1994-1996) and worked as a staff surgeon in the Uzhgorod MunicipalClinical Hospital rendering general surgery as well as emergency/trauma surgery services. In addition to hisgeneral 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 ResearchCombat Critical Care Engineering Task Area. Dr. Batchinsky pioneered application of nonlinear analysistechniques to investigation of cardiovascular regulatory complexity during hemorrhagic shock, burn shockand resuscitation, combined trauma animal models, as well as for non-invasive assessment of traumapatients. He is currently working on developing the first real-time tool for analysis of heart rate complexityas a reflection of changes in the state of the critically injured. His other research interests are cardiovascularand pulmonary physiology as applicable to trauma and critical states. Dr. Batchinsky is a reviewer formultiple scientific journals and a member of the Society for Experimental Biology in Medicine, AmericanPhysiologic Society, Shock Society, and Society for Critical Care Medicine.
