Newsletter: Winter, 2020 | ![]() ![]() |
Mission: Improve wound healing outcomes through science, professional education, and communication by:
![]() Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, FACS Vice Chairman of Surgery for Research Stanford University School of Medicine |
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Awards Committee
The WHS Awards Committee was busy during the months of December and January, with the Committee Chair, Dr Irena Pastar and Vice Chair, Dr. Daria Narmoneva, working closely with all WHS Committee members and WHF on this award cycle. The Committee has finalized the review process for the Anita Roberts, Lifetime Achievement, Translational Regenerative Science, Trainee Travel and Junior Faculty Travel awards. Candidates for the Industrial Research and Development Poster presentations and award have been identified.
WHS Member Susan Volk Receives Prestigious Honor
Submitted by: Traci Wilgus
Congratulations are in order for WHS member Susan Volk, VMD, PhD. In December, Susan received the Emerging Inventor of the Year Award from the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) at the University of Pennsylvania for her research on the regulation of breast tumor cell behavior by the extracellular matrix. She received one of six awards that recognized the most significant scientific discoveries or partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. Susan is a long-standing member of the WHS and currently serves as Chair of the International Relations Committee. For more information on this achievement, please view the press release.
Submitted by: Praveen Arany
Head and Neck cancers are among the most prevalent human cancers with a high mortality rates in the United States and worldwide. Routine cancer treatments utilize surgery, high dose chemotherapy and radiation therapy. These treatments are very effective at killing rapidly dividing cancer cells. Unfortunately, they also damage and or destroy normal cells such as hair follicles, salivary glands, and lining mucosal cells in the mouth and gut.
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Submitted by: Lisa Gould
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Submitted by: Lisa Gould
The Patient Education Committee of the American College of Surgeons and the Advisory Council for Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery co-hosted an educational Panel on Monday, October 28 at the 2019 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. Topics included debridement, managing the ‘broken’ abdominal wall, use of NPWT, flap reconstruction, telehealth and managing wounds at home. Members of the panel and committee include WHS members Gayle Gordillo and Lisa Gould. It is estimated that 60% of wounds managed in the home are surgical and many of these become non-healing wounds. Despite the complexity of non-healing wounds, the average physician-in-training receives less than 10 hours of formal education related to wound care. The attendance of 286 surgeons on a warm and sunny afternoon in San Francisco speaks volumes about the need to bring education to the clinicians who have to manage wounds but have not made wound care their profession. Drs. Gordillo and Gould also represented the WHS in creation of the Wound Management Home Skills Program, available at https://www.facs.org/education/patient-education/skills-programs/wound-care. This is a tremendous resource for educating nursing staff and patients and includes video demonstrations that support the skills outlined in the booklets.
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Attend the 8th annual Wound Healing Foundation-Thomas K Hunt lecture
Wednesday May 13 at 8:15AM
![]() Randy Schekman, Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2013 Nobel Laureate |
Wound Repair and Regeneration (WRR) is dedicated to the publication of high-impact, in depth investigations of mechanisms of tissue repair and outcomes from well-designed and carefully analyzed clinical studies. More
DOI | Article Title | Downloads |
A prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial on the efficacy of a single-use negative pressure wound therapy system, compared to traditional negative pressure wound therapy in the treatment of chronic ulcers of the lower extremities | 1,439 | |
Flaminal® versus Flamazine® in the treatment of partial thickness burns: A randomized controlled trial on clinical effectiveness and scar quality (FLAM study) | 907 | |
Randomized clinical study to compare negative pressure wound therapy with simultaneous saline irrigation and traditional negative pressure wound therapy for complex foot infections | 853 | |
Diabetes is associated with an increased risk of wound complications and readmission in patients with surgically managed pressure ulcers | 655 | |
Defining complete wound closure: Closing the gap in clinical trials and practice | 600 | |
Reliability of the Bates-Jensen wound assessment tool for pressure injury assessment: The pressure ulcer detection study | 594 | |
Pressure ulcer summit 2018: An interdisciplinary approach to improve our understanding of the risk of pressure-induced tissue damage | 523 | |
IL-7 overexpression enhances therapeutic potential of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for diabetic wounds | 446 | |
Roxadustat promotes angiogenesis through HIF-1α/VEGF/VEGFR2 signaling and accelerates cutaneous wound healing in diabetic rats | 444 | |
The effects of magnesium and vitamin E co-supplementation on wound healing and metabolic status in patients with diabetic foot ulcer: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial | 443 |
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The WHS member discount prices for 2020 are:
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Innovations in Wound Healing December 10-13, 2020 Ocean Reef Club Key Largo, Florida |
SAWC & WHS 2020 May 13-17, 2020 San Diego Convention Center San Diego, California |
SAWC & WHS 2021 May 12-16, 2021 Gaylord Texan Dallas, Texas |
SAWC & WHS 2022 April 6-10, 2022 Phoenix Convention Center Phoenix, Arizona |
SAWC & WHS 2023 April 26-30, 2023 Gaylord National Harbor National Harbor, Maryland |
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