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Industry-Supported Symposium
Innovation Theatre
New Speaker
Non-Accredited
Wound Healing Society
Wound Healing Foundation
Rapid-Fire
Debate
Additional Fee
Meal Session
Pre-Registration Required

Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Thursday, April 27, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
    Industry-Supported Symposium Breakfast: Navigating Patient Selection to Optimize the Clinical and Economic Effectiveness of Skin Substitutes
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): Advancing the Trajectory of Hard to Heal Wounds:Embedding Wound Hygiene into a Proactive Wound Healing Strategy
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): Can Standardized Use of a Pure Hypochlorous Acid Preserved Cleanser (pHA) Improve Outcomes?
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
    WHS Committee Meetings
  • 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
    SAWC Plenary Session: Opening Ceremony
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
    Keynote Address: The Future of Healthcare: Where Can Technology Take Us?
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    Atypical Wounds: Diagnosis and Management
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    Great Debates and Updates: HBO vs. Topical Oxygen
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    Hidden in Plain Sight: Understanding Lymphedema and Lymphatic Function in Wound and Tissue Healing
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    SESSION I: Managing Complex Osteomyelitis in the Limb Salvage Patient

    Moderator: Christopher E. Attinger, MD, FACS – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    Moderator: John S. Steinberg, DPM – Georgetown University School of Medicine

    Speaker: Mary Bessesen, MD – University of Colorado School of Medicine

    Speaker: Ho Kwong Li, MBBS, MRCP, DTMH – Imperial College London

    Speaker: Christopher Bibbo, DO, DPM, FACS, FAAOS, FACFAS – Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

    Diabetic Limb Salvage

  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    Traumatic Wounds: A Therapy Guide for the Wound Care Clinician
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
    WHS Session H: WOUND HEALING FOUNDATION – WHF-MEDLINE CORIUS INNOVATION LECTURE - Inhibition of Pressure Ulcers Development with Nanosilk
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Industry-Supported Symposium Lunch: Addressing Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Leveraging Interdisciplinary Team Approaches and Therapeutic Advances
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Industry-Supported Symposium Lunch: Harnessing the Science and Clinical Application of Placental & Dermal Tissue to Accelerate Healing of Chronic Lower Extremity Ulcers
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Industry-Supported Symposium Lunch: Strategies and Techniques for Transitioning NPWT Across the Continuum
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): Supporting Chronic Wounds into Remission: Algorithms of Care
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): The Economics of Skin Substitutes in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds Using Big Data
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): TIME Principles of Wound Bed Preparation and the TIME Clinical Decision Support Tool
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Great Debates and Updates: How Important Are Biofilms?
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    I Spy an Infection
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Let's get Physical! The Impact of Exercise on Wound Healing.
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    SESSION II: Vascular Options When There Are No Options

    Speaker: Cameron Akbari, MD – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

    Speaker: Roberto F. Ferraresi, MD – San Carlo Clinic - Paderno Dugnano - Milano - Italy

    Speaker: Werner Lang, MD – Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen

    Diabetic Limb Salvage

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    So Your Patient Has an Ostomy: Caring for the Stoma AND the Patient!
  • 1:45 PM – 4:00 PM
    WHS Session I: Young Investigators Symposium (Non-Accredited)

    Moderator: Kenneth W. Liechty, MD – University of Arizona

    Moderator: Piul Rabbani, PhD – New York University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Willeke F. Daamen, PhD – Radboud university medical center

    WHS

  • 1:45 PM – 5:15 PM
    Comprehensive Management of Venous Leg Ulcers: A Hands-On Workshop
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Patient and Provider Wellness and Wound Care
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Principles of Enteric Fistula Care: How Hard Can it Be?
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    SESSION III: Surgical Offloading and Biomechanics: It’s Not Limb Salvage Without Them

    Speaker: Jayson N. Atves, DPM – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    Speaker: Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH – UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    Speaker: Lew Schon, MD – Mercy Medical Center

    Diabetic Limb Salvage

  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Social Determinants in Wound Management
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Wound Care on a Dime
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    International Wound Infection Institute Update
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    Malignant Wounds
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    Monitoring Devices for Wound Care
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    Obesity: Skin and Wounds
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    SESSION IV: Plastic Surgery Repair to Salvage Limb, Length, and Function

    Speaker: J.P. Hong, MD, PhD, MMM – Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan

    Speaker: Karen K. Evans, MD – Medstar Georgetown University Medical Center

    Speaker: John M. Felder, MD, FACS – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

    Diabetic Limb Salvage

  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
    WHS Session J: Senescence and Tumor Biology In Wound Repair
  • 5:15 PM – 7:30 PM
    Grand Opening of Exhibits & Cocktail Reception