Col. (Ret) Warren C. Dorlac, MD, FACS

Col. (Ret) Warren C. Dorlac, MD, FACS is a trauma and acute care surgeon and assistant medical director of the Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Service at Medical Center of the Rockies (ACS-Verified Level I) in Loveland, part of the University of Colorado Health. He currently serves as the Chair of the Regional Committees on Trauma and the Vice Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He previously served on the EMS committee and as the Vice Chair of the Trauma Systems committee. He works with the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee on military prehospital care since 2008. He also serves as the Medical Director for Prehospital Trauma Life Support with NAEMT.

He has an interest in prehospital care, aeromedical transport and trauma care research. Dr. Dorlac served on active duty with the USAF for 26 years, retiring in October 2011. Military assignments and duties included: trauma medical director at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany 2004–2007, director of the Advanced Critical Care Air Transport Team training program at the University of Cincinnati 2007–2011, trauma consultant to the USAF Surgeon General 2008–2011, and as the deployed Central Command (CENTCOM) Joint Theater Trauma System Director in Iraq and Afghanistan in the second half of 2009. He is an instructor and course director for the ACS courses in ATLS, ASSET, and DMEP. Currently also working with Aspen Medical for trauma system development and trauma education for Ukraine.