Medical Director wound care Hyperbaric center Greenwich Hospital ,
Yale New Haven Health
Ridgefield , CT
Dr. Wainwright graduated from St. George’s Medical School in 2000. She trained in Internal Medicine, was Chief resident and a fellow in Pulmonary Medicine at Norwalk Hospital and affiliate of Yale School of Medicine. She went on to finish her fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2007. She returned to Norwalk Hospital to join the Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship Faculty and begin building the Wound Care Hyperbaric program from 2007-2016.
From 2016-2019 she served as Member at Large on the Board of Directors. Currently she sits on several UHMS committees
Currently Dr. Wainwright is the Medical director at Greenwich Hospital- Yale New Haven. In 2020 Dr. Wainwright was the first critical care physician on call when COVID hit the Yale system. In one weekend she had to radically transform the delivery of critical care practices to the bedside, in order to optimize patient care and frontline staff safety. After having studied COVID directly as a frontline physician during the day time, and collaborating with her hyperbaric colleagues on evenings and weekends, she devised a plan to treat covid patients with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure with hyperbaric oxygen – this was before vaccinations were widely available. Recognizing her efforts and leadership during the pandemic, the YNHHS, provided additional leadership training through the Advanced Emerging Leaders Program at the Yale School of Management. Dr. Wainwright is currently serving on the Medical Executive Committee, the Health Equity Committee and the Professionalism Committee for the Yale System.
In 2021 Dr. Wainwright collaborated with the delivery networks within the Yale system to create a practice excellence pathway for prevention, early detection and nursing driven treatment of pressure injuries.
In May 2022, Dr. Wainwright was designated as the Hyperbaric Service line director for the Yale New Haven Health System.
Dr.Wainwright has spoken nationally and internationally, adding Canada, Spain and the UK to her most recent presentations. Throughout her career, Dr. Wainwright has maintained a 100% clinical practice all the while keeping up her own academic interests by contributing abstracts, posters, lectures and publications from topics ranging from atypical wound presentations, hemoglobinopathies and most recently a paper on the use of hyperbaric oxygen in covid-19 patients with severe hypoxemia prior to vaccine availability.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM