Acute Surgical Wound Specialist
Christiana Care, Wilmington University
Hartly, DE
Dr. Kathy Gallagher is a DNP, credited with developing an Acute Surgical Wound Service at Christiana Care, a large level 1 trauma center in Delaware. Her primary interest has been addressing the individualized needs of those affected with trauma injuries. She advocates a team approach to harmonize a continuum of patient care from inpatient into surgery and to outpatient settings. She has shared success stories and taught about optimizing wound outcomes through local, national, and international presentations to all levels of health care providers. To further enhance their wound care knowledge Dr. Gallagher designed a comprehensive website and webinar as around-the-clock resource databases. Her efforts to reduce patients’ pain resulted in her innovative skin graft donor site dressing which other facilities have adopted. She also is an adjunct professor for Wilmington University’s Nurse Practitioner Program where she promotes early awareness of advanced wound care methodologies. Her findings and research have been published in professional journals and online wound blogs.
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Friday, April 8, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM MST