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Category Name  Position City Country
Advisor Asaf Fishov, MS Instructor, Advisor Paris FR
Advisor David M. Eagleman, PhD Advisor Houston US
Advisor Derrick Farwell, Lt., Medical Corp, USN, MD Instructor, Advisor Camp Pendleton US
Member Det. Eric Miner Member Phoenix US
Director Dutch Johnson, PhD Instructor, Director of Research Phoenix US
Director Greg Ghironzi Director of Operations Temecula US
Advisor J. S. Markham, HMC (FMF/DV/PJ), 1st Marine Division Advisor Camp Pendleton US
Advisor Jeffrey Bernicker, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Advisor San Diego US
Director Jeremy Elrod Instructor, Director of Firearms Training San Francisco US
Advisor Joseph Bobovsky, MD Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine Advisor Yakima US
Member Lee Hunt Instructor Los Angeles US
Director Luke Corazza, MA, MEd Instructor, Director of Instructional Design San Diego US
Advisor Michael Schankerman, MD, Emergency Medicine Advisor South Lake Tahoe US
Advisor Peter D. Ho, PhD, MBA Instructor, Advisor San Francisco US
Member Rick Rothstein, Master Instructor Instructor San Diego US
Member Tony Lui, Master Instructor Instructor Sacramento US
Director Torin Hill, Master Instructor Instructor, Director of Training San Diego US
Director Viatcheslav M. Popovsky, PhD Associate Director of Instructional Design Seattle US

TORIS Research

Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.Read more…

 

Curriculum Design

Training for lethal force situations prepares operators for the most stressful and highest-risk moments of an entire career. Regardless of the tools used, the training must ingrain the ability to deliver sufficient injury to stop a lethal threat and the judgment to use that ability properly. Firearms are a core portion of an operator’s training, but it is easy to foresee deadly situations where a firearm is difficult or impossible to bring to bear. Unable to draw, a mechanical failure, struggling for control of a weapon…Read more…

Risk Management

With the ad hoc nature of Defensive Tactics (DT) technique selection, most agencies are operating without soundly engineered and medically reviewed DT programs. When instructors are untrained in the associated knowledge of injury mechanisms, scope, and probability, they may fail to communicate the actual risk of serious injury. In addition, there may be liberal use-of-force policies that do not take into account the disguised risk of injury… Read more…

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