David McArdle, MD

Reserve Officer, Denver Police Academy,
Denver Police Department
Monument, Colorado, United States

Dr. McArdle is a Board Certified Emergency Department Physician. He is also a Colorado POST certified Peace Officer. He has worked the streets as a reserve police officer in a major metropolitan department for over 20 years. He has many years of experience in pre-hospital medicine. He trains and supervises medics working both domestically and abroad. He is the immediate past Chair of the Police Physician Section of the IACP.

Presentation(s):

• Battlefield Medicine for the Streets: Evolving Police Response to High-Threat, Mass Casualty Incidents

  Saturday, October 18, 2025
  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM MT

• Chief: You Wouldn't Use a Public Defender to Represent Your Agency, So Why Would You Use a Hospital Appointed Physician?

  Sunday, October 19, 2025
  8:00 AM - 9:30 AM MT

• Interagency Response to Acute Behavioral Emergencies: The Need for Police-Fire-EMS Collaboration

  Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  8:00 AM - 9:30 AM MT