Pressure Ulcer Summit Program

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

E. Lynette Gunn is an Advanced Practice RN – CNS with specialization in gerontological nursing, case management, wound and foot care.  She has over 26 years of direct care nursing experience beginning with medical/surgical, pediatric, orthopedics, wound and foot care, education and telehealth.  As the Chief of Outpatient Nursing Services for the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, she is responsible for the development, maintenance, and expansion of Endoscopy, Infusion, Wound/Ostomy, Specialty, Surgical and Virtual Care programs for Veterans in Northeastern Oklahoma. Lynette received her BSN in nursing from Washburn University in Topeka, KS, and her MS in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma.  Lynette is a firm believer in active participation in professional practice organizations being a member of ANA/ONA, NACNS (National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist) WOCN, AAWC and NOVA (Nurses of the VA). She currently serves on the board of directors for AAWC and President Elect for OACNS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

E. Lynette Gunn is an Advanced Practice RN – CNS with specialization in gerontological nursing, case management, wound and foot care.  She has over 26 years of direct care nursing experience beginning with medical/surgical, pediatric, orthopedics, wound and foot care, education and telehealth.  As the Chief of Outpatient Nursing Services for the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, she is responsible for the development, maintenance, and expansion of Endoscopy, Infusion, Wound/Ostomy, Specialty, Surgical and Virtual Care programs for Veterans in Northeastern Oklahoma. Lynette received her BSN in nursing from Washburn University in Topeka, KS, and her MS in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma.  Lynette is a firm believer in active participation in professional practice organizations being a member of ANA/ONA, NACNS (National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist) WOCN, AAWC and NOVA (Nurses of the VA). She currently serves on the board of directors for AAWC and President Elect for OACNS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Couch graduated with her Master of Science in Nursing (FNP) from Georgetown University in 2002.  Currently, she works as the Director of Wound Care Services at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC.    She is an Associate Research Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University.  Her primary wound interests are in amputee care, wound infection and venous ulcers.
Ms.  Couch is the current nurse board member of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and the Secretary of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).  She is an editorial board member of Wound Management and Prevention, Today’s Wound Clinic and WoundSource 2021.   Kara is the liaison for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners to the Alliance.   She became Chair of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee of the Amputee Coalition in 2019.  She is a member of the Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative, a joint collaboration between the NPIAP and EPUAP.

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Neesha Oozageer Gunowa is the Pathway Lead for Community Nursing.  She combines this role with that of a PhD Candidate at Oxford Brookes University.  Her passion for community nursing, research and nurse education has fuelled a passion for the exploration of health inequities in nursing. In 2016, Neesha was awarded a scholarship at the Oxford Institute for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research (OxINMAHR).  She then started her PhD focusing on nurse education and the presentation of pressure ulcers among people with darker skin tones.  She has more recently developed a national reputation, becoming a board member of the National Wound Care Strategy Programme.  Her work has been recognised by numerous highly reputable nursing organisations including The Florence Nightingale Foundation and the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma. Neesha is a proud Queen’s Nurse and has recently become a Trustee of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).

Donna Z. Bliss, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, is a Professor, Director of the PhD Program and Graduate Studies, and Chair of the Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative/department of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in Minneapolis, MN. She holds the School of Nursing Foundation Professorship in Nursing Research. Dr. Bliss’ research investigates the epidemiology, assessment, symptom management of fecal incontinence and incontinence associated skin damage, including pressure injuries. She has 25 years of funded research and more than 100 journal publications on these topics and is editor of the book, Management of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse (Springer, FR). She currently has an NOH grant to develop and test a mobile app for supporting self-management of fecal incontinence. Dr. Bliss has presented at numerous national and international conferences. She is the chair of an International Consultation on Incontinence committee updating a literature review about fecal incontinence conservative management and quality of life. She is on the Steering Committee of Cochrane Review’s Priority Setting for Faecal Incontinence project and recently completed two terms as Chairperson of the International Continence Society Nursing Committee.

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Shantia McCoy-Jones, MSN, RN, CRNP, CWCN is the Department of Veterans Affairs/Veterans Health Administration (VA/VHA) Office of Nursing Service (ONS), Pressure Injury Prevention & Management (PIP) Clinical Nurse Advisor. Shantia is field based at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA where she serves as the Education/Wound Specialist. As the Clinical Nurse Advisor for the PIP, Shantia leads experts from diverse specialties from across the VA who represent all aspects of wound/skin, ostomy and PI prevention and management at all levels of nursing and direct point of care.  She provides expert consultation throughout the VA system on PI prevention and management, practice, and education; and skin/wound management; the VA PI Prevention Directive; Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Electronic Health Record Modernization/Wound/Skin Lead for Acute Care Nursing Council; VA Pressure Ulcer/Injury Resource (VA PUR) mobile app; and a host of national skin and wound programs.

E. Lynette Gunn is an Advanced Practice RN – CNS with specialization in gerontological nursing, case management, wound and foot care.  She has over 26 years of direct care nursing experience beginning with medical/surgical, pediatric, orthopedics, wound and foot care, education and telehealth.  As the Chief of Outpatient Nursing Services for the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, she is responsible for the development, maintenance, and expansion of Endoscopy, Infusion, Wound/Ostomy, Specialty, Surgical and Virtual Care programs for Veterans in Northeastern Oklahoma. Lynette received her BSN in nursing from Washburn University in Topeka, KS, and her MS in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma.  Lynette is a firm believer in active participation in professional practice organizations being a member of ANA/ONA, NACNS (National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist) WOCN, AAWC and NOVA (Nurses of the VA). She currently serves on the board of directors for AAWC and President Elect for OACNS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Johnson, MD, MBA, CWSP, FAPWCA is the founder and surgical
director of Comprehensive Wound Care Services based in Washington, DC. Also known as “Dr. Wounds” he is board certified by the American Board of Wound Management and a fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association. Dr. Johnson trained in general surgery with a fellowship as the Sylvester J. Carter Hand and Plastic surgery fellow at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Hospital Center of Cornell University. He holds a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Finance from The Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a physician board member of The Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC). In his free time Dr. Johnson is board member at Capital Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP) a non-profit focused on fatherhood development and education and a founding member of the Johnson-Jones Family Foundation.

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Sharon Sonenblum, PhD is a Principal Research Scientist in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech where she studies wheelchair seating and mobility. Her work focuses on two primary areas: the use of assistive technology in everyday life, and tissue health and pressure injury prevention.  Dr. Sonenblum’s work on tissue health uses imaging to investigate the tissue’s response to loading and positioning. She also uses instrumentation to monitor how people move in their seats and use technology such as power tilt-in-space wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, and power adjustable seat height wheelchairs in their everyday lives. Dr. Sonenblum serves on the board of directors of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel.

Lisa Q. Corbett DNP APRN ACNS-BC CWOCN (BSN University of Rochester; MSN Indiana University; DNP Yale University), provides system wound leadership for a large integrated health system, Hartford HealthCare, in New England. She has accountability for wound related clinical, regulatory and financial outcomes, organizational strategy, clinical value analysis, inter-professional competency, contracts integration. She leads the Nursing Research programs and Shared Governance Council.  She is chair of the Connecticut Nursing Research Alliance and co-owner of a private practice providing wound consultation to skilled nursing settings. She is a past Board Member of the Wound Reach Foundation, the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair, and the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care where she served as co-chair of the Guidelines Task Force. She has co-authored a textbook on wound care, as well as several journal articles, white papers and collaborative society clinical practice guidelines.   She teaches Quality and Safety in Healthcare Organizations in the DNP Program at Yale University School of Nursing. Her research interests include developing healthcare system change capability, the development of evidence for unavoidable pressure ulcers in critical care and the reduction of harm in the community health setting.

Catherine T. Milne is an Adult Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist practicing across the continuum in acute care, long-term care, home health and outpatient settings. Employed by Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates, she provides consulting to organizations wishing to improve wound outcomes, conducts clinical research, lectures nationally and internationally, has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed publications, and is the Co-Editor of the text Wound, Ostomy, Continence Secret. She is additionally affiliated with the Bristol Hospital Wound, Ostomy, Lymphedema Center. She serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor for Western Connecticut State University and for the Yale School of Nursing.

Dr. Bryant received her Baccalaureate in Nursing from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, her ET certificate from Jewish Hospital Washington University School of Enterostomal Therapy in St. Louis Missouri, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Nursing from Washington State University in Spokane WA. Her dissertation focus was to identify factors contributing to adverse outcomes in the hospitalized patient with a present on admission or hospital acquired pressure ulcer. Dr. Bryant has a career as a board certified WOC Nurse that spans over 30 years. During her career she has been clinically active in acute care with adults and pediatrics in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Oklahoma City and Spokane WA. She has influenced and shaped the role of the WOC nurse and patient care through her many positions on the Board of Directors of the WOCN Society, including 2 terms as President, and through her faculty and director positions in two WOC Nursing Education Programs. Dr. Bryant is the co-creator of the first web based WOC nursing education program, the webWOC Nursing Education Program, which was launched in 1999, in Minneapolis Minnesota. She is the co-editor of “Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Techniques”, currently in its 5th edition. Ruth was in Spokane Washington for the past 6 years where she completed her PhD, worked in wound care and was the Nurse Researcher at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Ruth returned to Minnesota in October of 2017 to be the Director of Nursing Research at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Bryant is President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Lisa Q. Corbett DNP APRN ACNS-BC CWOCN (BSN University of Rochester; MSN Indiana University; DNP Yale University), provides system wound leadership for a large integrated health system, Hartford HealthCare, in New England. She has accountability for wound related clinical, regulatory and financial outcomes, organizational strategy, clinical value analysis, inter-professional competency, contracts integration. She leads the Nursing Research programs and Shared Governance Council.  She is chair of the Connecticut Nursing Research Alliance and co-owner of a private practice providing wound consultation to skilled nursing settings. She is a past Board Member of the Wound Reach Foundation, the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair, and the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care where she served as co-chair of the Guidelines Task Force. She has co-authored a textbook on wound care, as well as several journal articles, white papers and collaborative society clinical practice guidelines.   She teaches Quality and Safety in Healthcare Organizations in the DNP Program at Yale University School of Nursing. Her research interests include developing healthcare system change capability, the development of evidence for unavoidable pressure ulcers in critical care and the reduction of harm in the community health setting.

Catherine T. Milne is an Adult Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist practicing across the continuum in acute care, long-term care, home health and outpatient settings. Employed by Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates, she provides consulting to organizations wishing to improve wound outcomes, conducts clinical research, lectures nationally and internationally, has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed publications, and is the Co-Editor of the text Wound, Ostomy, Continence Secret. She is additionally affiliated with the Bristol Hospital Wound, Ostomy, Lymphedema Center. She serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor for Western Connecticut State University and for the Yale School of Nursing.

Dr. Song is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of WoundReference, Inc., a clinical and reimbursement decision support & telemedicine platform for wound care and hyperbaric clinicians. With a medical, science and business background, Dr. Song previously served as medical director for a regenerative medicine-focused biotech company in California, and for a Joint Commission International-accredited hospital network. Dr. Song also served as a management consultant for Kaiser Permanente, practiced as a plastic surgeon in private practice and academia, and conducted bench and clinical research in wound healing, microsurgery and transplant immunology. Dr. Song holds a position as Affiliate Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paulo, and is a volunteer, Committee Chair of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications, book chapters, software registrations and patents.

Barbara Bates-Jensen is Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research is focused on improving pressure injury and related wound care using technology and methods of translating research into practice in nursing homes and other health care settings. She is the developer of a tool for chronic wound assessment, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT), which is used worldwide and a co-inventor of the SEM Scanner a device for detecting early pressure injury. She is a past board member and conference co-chair for the Wound Healing Society, past Vice President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, President Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the 2021 recipient of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel’s Kosiak award given to those who have made significant contributions to the prevention and management of pressure injuries through their leadership in research, education and patient care, and a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.