Professor of Geriatrics
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
The Woodlands, TX
Dr. Fife completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry. The USWR develops quality measures relevant to wound management and helps wound care and hyperbaric practitioners meet the requirements of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program. She became a Certified Wound Specialist in 1998 and is a past president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. She is a past co-chair of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and serves on the Alliance Board of Directors. Past board activiteis include the American Academy of Wound Management, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and the American Professional Wound Care Association. She is the clinical editor of Today’s Wound Clinic and has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks (the Textbook of Chronic Wound Care, Wound Care Practice, and Women and Pressure: Diving and Flying.). Her research contributions include altitude decompression studies that enabled the construction of the International Space Station by decreasing the time needed for oxygen pre-breathe as part of a NASA lead research consortium, the development of real time lymphatic imaging with Dr. Eva Sevick using near infrared technology, and more recently, the use of real world data for comparative effectiveness studies to understand what works best for patients with chronic wounds and ulcers.
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Friday, October 14, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT