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12 Annual Wound Care Congress

Wound Management Changes on the Horizon

Pre-Conference

Thursday, September 25, 2008

7:30 - 5:30 pm  - Wound Certification Prep Course
(Day 1 of 2)

Pamela Scarborough, PT, MS, CDE, CWS

Greg Patterson, MD, CWS

Dot Weir, RN, CWOCN, CWS

8:00 - 5:00 pm -  Establishing a Successful Wound Care Center

Joseph P. Cavorsi, MD

Autumn Bell, PT, MPT, CLT

Friday, September 26, 2008

7:30 - 5:30 pm -  Wound Certification Prep Course
(Day 2 of 2)

Pamela Scarborough, PT, MS, CDE, CWS

Greg Patterson, MD, CWS

Dot Weir, RN, CWOCN, CWS

8:00 - 12:00 pm -  Reimbursement for Wound Management

Kathleen Schaum, MS

1:00 - 5:00 pm - Total Contact Casting -                                     (lecture/lab)

Amy Walker,  PT, MPT, CWS

 

Main Conference

Saturday, September 27, 2008

7:00 - 8:00 am -  Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am -  Welcome & Introduction

8:15 - 9:10 am -  The Policy that Puts Presure                                         on Pressure Ulcer Management

Elizabeth Ayello, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, CWOCN

9:15 - 10:10 am -  What's New with PU (Pressure Ulcers)?

Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN

10:10 - 10:30 am -  Break

10:30 - 11:00 am -  Treatment Plan: DEBRIDE - how would                                 you proceed?

Walter Conlan, III, MD, CWS

11:05 - 11:45am -  Confessions of a Wound Care Surgeon

Joseph P. Cavorsi, MD

11:45 - 12:00 pm -  Question & Answer Session

12:00 - 2:30 pm -  Lunch and Exhibits

2:30 - 3:20 pm -  Biology of a Diabetic Ulcer

Sharon L. Dunn, PT, PhD, OCS

3:20 - 3:35 pm -  Break

3:35 - 4:05 pm - Multi-Modality Approaches to Wound 

                           Management: -Evidence, Experience and                            Outcome - Part 1

Elizabeth Ayello, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, CWOCN

                         Joseph P. Cavorsi, MD

                         Bio-engineered skin and NPWT on a stage

                         IV ulcer

4:05 - 4:30 pm - Question & Answer Session

Sunday, September 28, 2008

7:00 - 8:00 am -  Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am - Introduction

8:15 - 9:15 am - Do You See What I See: An

                          I nteractive Session on Atypical Wounds

Robert Kirsner, MD           

9:20 - 9:45 am -  Handle with Care:  Tips for Aging Skin

Karen Kennedy-Evans, RN, CS, FMP

9:50 - 10:20 am -  Multi-Modality Approaches to Wound

                             Management: Evidence, Experience and                              Outcome - Part II

Jeff Niezgoda, MD

Stephanie Woelfel, PT, MPT, CWS, FACCWS

10:20 - 10:40 am -  Break

10:40 - 11:35 am -  What's so Hard about Wrapping a Leg?

                                Avoiding the Pitfalls of Compression                                 Bandaging

Joseph McCulloch, PT, PhD, CWS, FAPTA

Nicole Gergich, PT, MPT, CLT-LANA

11:35 - 12:00 pm -  Question & Answer Session

12:00 - 2:30 pm -  Lunch, Exhibits and Poster Presentations

2:30 - 3:10 pm - Negative Pressure Wound Therapy                            Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Jeff Niegzoda, MD

3:10 - 3:25 pm   -  Break

3:25 - 4:25 pm - Stories from Abroad- World-wide                            Wound Care

Harriett Loehne, PT, DPT, CWS, FACCWS

John MacDonald, MD

Dot Weir, RN, CWOCN, CWS

Monday, September 29, 2008

7:00 - 8:00am - Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am -  Introduction

8:15 - 9:10 am -  Reality Wound Care:  When you just don't

                            have the bells and whistles

Joseph McCulloch, PT, PhD, CWS, FAPTA

Frank Aviles, Jr., PT, CWS, WCC

9:15 - 10:15 am  -  The One that Almost Got Away:  A Look

                               at Challenging Cases

John MacDonald, MD

Dot Weir, RN, CWOCN, CWS

Stephanie Woelfel, PT, MPT, CWS, FACCWS

 

10:15 - 10:35 am -  Break

10:35 - 11:35 am -  Reimbursement Resources-Where to go

                              and how to use them

Kathleen Schaum, MS

11:35 - 12:00 pm -  Panel Discussion

Post-Conference

1:00 - 5:00 pm  - Clinical Debridement Skills

Karen Albaugh, PT, DPT, MPH, CWS

Luther Kloth, PT, MS, FAPTA, CWS, FACCWS

1:00 - 5:00 pm -  Compression Bandaging for Optimal

                             Edema Management (lecture & lab)

Nicole Gergich, PT, MPT, CLT-LANA

Rose Hamm, PT, DPT, CWS, FACCWS