Scientific Committee
CHAIR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Prof. Afsaneh Alavi, MD, FRCPC
Senior Consultant & Director of Clinical Trial – Mayo Clinic Dept. of Dermatology
USA
CHAIR SCIENTIFIC & ETHICS COMMITTEE
Prof. Dieter Mayer, MD, FEBVS, FAPWCA
Director of Vascular Surgery & Wound Care
Switzerland
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PANEL
Prof. R. Gary Sibbald
BSc, MD, FRCPC (Med)(Derm), MEd – University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Michael Stacey
Vascular Surgeon Hamilton, General Hospital
Ontario, Canada
Dr. Elizabeth Ayello
Clinical Editor, Advances in Skin & Wound Care Faculty, Excelsio College School of Nursing, USA
Prof. Harikrishna K.R. Nair
Founding President, Malaysian Society of Wound Care Professionals, Malaysia
Dr. Linda Haskins
Assistant Director of Nursing, MSN, IIWCC. SKMC
Zulekha Hospital
Sharjah, UAE
Prof. Robert S Kirsner
Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous, University of Miami Hospital Wound Center – Miller School of Medicine,USA
Prof. Barbara M. Bates-Jensen
UCLA School of Nursing
USA
Prof. Vera Lucia Conceição de Gouveia Santos
Professor at the School of Nursing, University of São Paulo (EEUSP)
Brazil
Dr. Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts
Founder and President, International Surgical Wound Complications Advisory Panel (ISWCAP), Australia
Prof. Magda Mulder
Professor/Head School of Nursing
Health Sciences Faculty
South Africa
Ms. Dot Weir
Wound Consultant/Educator Staff Nurse, Catholic Health Advanced Wound Healing Centers
USA
Ms. Guadalupe Maria Lobo Cordero
President,Latinamerican Multidisciplinary Confederation of Wound, Ostomy Continence (COMHLEI) Mexico
Prof. Chong Si Jack
President of Asia Pacific Burn Association
Singapore
Ms. Hiske Smart
Unit Manager, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy / Editor for IIWCG
King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain
Prof. Chizuko Konya
RNS, WOCN, PhD School of Nursing
Kanazawa Medical University
Japan
Prof. Karen Ousey
Director for the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention – University of Huddersfield, UK
Prof. Sadanori Akita
Department of Plastic Surgery, Wound Repair & Regeneration
University, School of Medicine
Japan
Prof. Keith Harding
Professor of Wound Healing Research, School of Medicine Cardiff University
UK
Dr. Mariam Botros
CEO, Wounds Canada
Canada
Prof. Kimberly LeBlanc
Academic Chair, Wound Ostomy Continence Institute
Canada
Ms. Terry Swanson
Nurse Practitioner Wound Management/W.E.R.C (Wound Education Research Consultancy)
Australia
Wound Care Nurse, 2 Military Hospital
South Africa
Dr. Helen Yifter
Endocrinologist
Addis Ababa University, College Health Sciences
Ethiopia
Podiatrist, Wound Care Specialist, Max Hospital
India
Prof. Mohamed Baguneid
Chair of Surgical Institute,
Al Ain Hospital, UAE
