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Associate Professor Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts
CMMIT, Lead Skin Integrity Research Group, Murdoch University, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia
Thomas has opened and operates advanced wound care centres across the United Sates and globally. He founded the first wound healing cooperative research group conducting clinical trials world-wide. In 2011, he developed a diagnostic technique that now bears his name (The Serena Technique©). He is one of the world’s leading experts in infection diagnostics with a strong interest in surgical site infection and dehiscence. Thomas has done extensive medical relief work with Health Volunteers Overseas and served as chairman of the AAWC Global Volunteers/HVO Steering Committee until 2016.
Website: www.serenagroups.com
Professor Assadian is President of the Austrian Society for Infection Control. He received a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1997 and the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2000. Since December 2018, he has served as Medical Director of the Hospital Neunkirchen, Austria. Professor Assadian continues his clinical work as Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and Consultant in Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control at the Medical University of Vienna and the Vienna General Hospital, a 2,200-bed university teaching hospital. His research interests focus on epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, wound infection, prevention of surgical site infection, characteristics and clinical application of antiseptics, medical use of low-temperature plasma, and infection control aspects of hospital construction, as well as antimicrobial medical devices. He is a reviewer of international journals, editor and author of two reference textbooks in the field of infection control, and author of more than 220 published peer-reviewed articles in international medical journals.
Head, Breast Section, Regional Medical Practice Head, Microsurgery Fellowship Program Director, Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Harikrishna is President of the Malaysian Society of Wound Care Professionals MSWCP, Vice President of the Asian Wound Care Association AWCA and President Elect of the Asia Pacific Association of Diabetic Limb Problem APDLP. He is also Editor in Chief of the Wounds Asia Journal and the Journal of Wound Care Silk Road Supplement.
Website: www.mswcp.org
Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Italy
Corrine is a successful health educator, researcher and innovator. She is recognized throughout Canada as an expert in wound outcome measurement and as an innovator in the development of effective e-health solutions for health organizations across the continuum of care. Corrine’s passion for improving the Canadian health system through outcome measurement is both inspired and informed by many years of experience as a nursing clinician, manager, consultant and educator. Corrine’s passion centres around data collection for both chronic wounds and surgical wound complications, she has created and houses one of the largest wound care datasets in Canada, and will be using this data set to help to drive best practice interventions for surgical wound complications.
Gulnaz Tariq is Unit Manager for Wound Care in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi. She trained as a nurse in the armed forces and graduated with First Position in Province, Post-graduate with honours. She has pursued further international wound care training by joining the International Inter-professional Wound Care Course (IIWCC) from University of Toronto in 2007. She completed her MSc in Skin Integrity from University of Hertfordshire (UK) in 2014. She is a local, regional and international wound care key opinion leader and speaker and is the founder (2015) and course director of the Ostomy Care and Management (OCM). She introduced a diabetic foot prevention program and pressure ulcer prevention program in SKMC and has organized the Abu Dhabi Wound Care Conference for the past 9 years. Gulnaz is Founder of International Inter-professional Wound Care Group, and was elected to be President. She has won the Bid for Abu Dhabi for 2020 to bring World Union Wound Healing Society Congress to the region and elected as President Elect of WUWHS.
He is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and has published 35 articles in specialized magazines and 37 works in proceedings of events, has 10 book chapters and 5 published books. Supervised 6 PhD Dissertation’s and more than 15 master’s dissertations and co-supervised 11 in the Health Sciences area. Between 2007 and 2020 he participated in 5 research projects. Currently participates in 3 research projects, involving Wound Simulation/education, Epidemiology of Wounds and Prevention and treatment of wound Infection
Coordinator of the Wounds Research Lab, in his professional activities he interacted with 167 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific works, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Nursing, Wound Care, Chronic Wounds, Surgical and Traumatic Wounds, Prevention, Teaching, Education, Health Care and Pressure Ulcers.
Has 1 registered product Patent and 182 other items of technical production.
President of the Portuguese Wound Management Association, Member of the Committee of the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention, Member of the SILAHUE and Trustee of the Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.
Collaborates with EWMA in the Teach the Teachers Project and the UCM Model (university COnference Model)
Department of Surgical Disciplines and Division of Trauma Surgery & Critical Care, JPN Apex Trauma Center AIIMS, New Delhi. Dr Sushma Sagar is a Trauma Surgeon currently working as an Additional Professor in Trauma Surgery at JPN Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS. She completed her graduation (MBBS) and post-graduation in General Surgery from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow and SN Medical College Agra respectively. Dr Sagar is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Association of Women Surgeons. She is a trained burns and reconstructive surgeon with special interest in trauma reconstruction.
Dr Sagar is a course director and faculty for the Advanced Trauma Life Support course in India. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Wound Care and is recorded in the Limca book of records for surgery; a teaching faculty with National Institute of Disaster Management, India.
Dr Sagar is actively involved in the management of trauma patients at JPN Apex Trauma Centre, along with teaching and training of doctors and nurses at this centre. Dr Sagar has contributed to trauma reconstructive surgery and soft tissue management of complicated and chronic wounds. She started a dedicated Amputation clinic at JPN Apex Trauma Center in 2013 and is involved with rehabilitation of amputees and bed sore patients.
MB.BCh. (Wales), FRCS(Ed), M. Med. Sci., (Keele) FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics), FRCS (Glas) Hon.
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff
Honorary Lecturer, Cardiff University.
Consultant surgeon at Spire Cardiff Hospital & the Schoen Clinic, London
Having completed specialist training at The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital Oswestry & the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, Mr Morgan-Jones undertook 2 overseas Fellowships. Firstly, in the management of Osteomyelitis in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
And then as knee fellow at the North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre, Australia.
Having pioneered Orthopaedic specialisation, Mr Morgan-Jones runs a regional service for the management of infected total knee replacement, re-revision knee replacement, chronic osteomyelitis, non-union and lower limb reconstruction. He undertakes young adult and complex primary knee replacement along with revision arthroscopy and revision ACL surgery.
He is currently an elected BOA trustee and serves on several national committees working on infection and revision services.
To date Mr Morgan-Jones has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, 20 books & chapters. He is in demand nationally & internationally as a lecturer and faculty member/Chair.
PhD PgDip PgCert BSc (Hons) MCSP SRP
Professor in Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic Research Institute, Bournemouth University, U.K.
Research Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy Department, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, U.K.
Tom Wainwright is a physiotherapist, clinical academic and quality improvement specialist with a broad range of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal related research interests. He is internationally recognised for his pioneering work and thought leadership in regard to Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) protocols within orthopaedics. He has a proven track record of leading research and professional practice, with over £2.5million of grant income as PI and over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the last 5 years. Tom is passionate about improving the quality of healthcare systems and works to help other healthcare providers improve the quality of their services through teaching and consultancy. The Institute of Consulting named him as the 2010 Young Consultant of the Year for his work on a portfolio of national quality improvement projects. He continues to provide consultancy services to medical industry partners, and is a frequently invited guest lecturer and keynote speaker.
George Smith is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Vascular Surgery at the Hull York Medical School and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He was recently appointed as Vascular Surgical Specialty Lead at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Chair of the Vascular Access Research Special Interest Group of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also the Clinical Lead for both the Vascular Surgery unit and the National Wound Care strategy Programme First Implementation group in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
George has worked as an expert advisor to NICE, NIHR and Industry. He has recently helped to lead a UK national research priority setting exercise with the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the James Lind Alliance. George’s research interests are primarily focussed on surgical wounds, antibiotic stewardship / resistance and prevention and management of post-operative infections.
Trust Lead for SSI Surveillance, Research & Innovation
Surveillance and Innovation Unit, Directorate of Infection
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
A nurse by background, Melissa has focused on prioritising the safety and experience of patients and carers across the surgical wound pathway. She has created a series of videos for patients and carers on surgical wound healing and wound infection prevention (endorsed by NICE, 2019), invented a patented surgical bra to aid healing following cardiac surgery, and developed an award-winning approach to improve information between acute and community care (‘Photo at Discharge’). Her current project includes a national research project examining the barriers and enablers for SSI surveillance, and a multi-centre project introducing a proactive surgical wound surveillance programme using a progressive web app (Isla). Melissa is an (unpaid) clinical advisor for Isla.