Medical Director Wound Healing Institute
M Health Fairview
Plymouth, MN
M. Mark Melin MD FACS RPVI FACCWS, is a surgeon and Medical Director of the M Health Wound Healing Institute (South Campus) and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Minnesota Surgical Department. His interests and educational niches include management of lymphedema/lymphatic stasis in the wounded patient, the endothelial glycocalyx, adjunctive micronutrient and bionutrient application to wound care, diosmin Micronized Purified Flavonoid Fraction (MPFF), polygenic abnormality impact upon wound resolution, wound pH and biofilm management, and emerging technologies in wound products and wound technologies. He participates in the educational activities of the Wound Fellowship program, under the direction of the University of Minnesota PMR Department (Chair Dr. Leslie Morse and Fellowship Program Director Dr. Sandy Rosenberg), with the first Fellow initiating training in August 2022. The HBO Fellow from Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis, initiated a shadowing program in the Wound Healing Institute in August 2022 (HCMC Program Director Dr. Thomas Masters).
Additional interests, educational efforts, presentations and research include human physiology and adaptability in the weightlessness of space travel and its translation to improving patient cares on terra firma and achieving nominal human function in environmental extremes and the extremes of healthcare. He joined the Aerospace medical association (AsMA) and the Space Surgical Association (SSA) in 2021. He is published and a presenter at conferences on this topic and co-Directs the Space Forum with Heather Hettrick PhD (Professor, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale), and Kelli Ogborn-Kedis (VP of the Space Foundation), a Societal function of AVLS (American Vein and Lymphatic Society), initiated in 2021.
He became the Medical Director of Eva Medtec in September of 2022. Eva Medtec is the creator of Neuroglide, a system of automated therapy devices which provide effective, convenient, and sustainable medical devices for pain management options. Neuroglide is Class II FDA approved, emulating manual lymphatic drainage (MLD). Research is ongoing for Neuroglide therapeutic benefits and detailing the mechanisms of action from the lymphatics to cellular level.
He joined VitaSupportMD as a Senior Medical Advisor in November of 2022, in an effort to educate and further research the benefits of Micronized Purified Flavonoid Fraction (MPFF) for vein, lymphatic and wound therapeutics as part of a standard of care.
He resides in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife of 33 years, Cindy; they have 4 grown children who attended Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) and 3 daughter in-laws. 2 children and a daughter in-law are in medicine, as a urology resident and 2 in medical school: Medical College of Wisconsin and Liberty University College of Medicine. They have 3 rescue dogs and many books.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Saturday, April 29, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM