Developing a wound infection framework / Evaluation of surgical site infections post caesarean section using Leukomed® Sorbact® dressings

Michael is currently a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and the Labour Ward Lead at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is an ambassador for Essity and led a project, reducing Caesarean Section SSI rates by 45% and readmission bed days by 61%.
Michael has an extensive background in leadership and patient safety. He has undertaken a Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership in Healthcare, obtaining a PGCert with Distinction and whilst working at NHS Resolution published the national report; ‘Learning from Five Years of Cerebral Palsy Claims’. He is the Honorary Vice Chairman of the Baby Lifeline MultiProfessional Advisory Panel and is part of the review team for the Ockenden independent maternity reviews.

Kate has worked in community Tissue Viability for 15 years and has recently joined the team at the University of Huddersfield as a senior lecturer in Tissue Viability. Kate still works clinically as part of the Leeds Community Health Trust tissue viability team. She is a trustee of the Society of Tissue Viability (SoTV) and represents the SoTV as a member of the Legs Matter coalition.

Karen is Professor and Director for the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention, University of Huddersfield, Visiting Professor, Queensland University of Technology and the Royal college of Surgeons, Dublin; previous academic editor for Wounds UK. She is elected chair of the International Wound Infection Institute and the International Skin Tears Advisory Panel (Europe). Her clinical background is in orthopaedics and tissue viability. She has over 30 years’ experience in both clinical practice and in academia. She is widely published (in excess of 140 papers) and has edited 2 text books.

Barbara is Head of Pharmacy at the University of Huddersfield. She was appointed as Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Huddersfield in 2010. Following her first degree in Pharmacy at Queen’s University, Belfast, she registered as a pharmacist in 1990 and practised full-time in community pharmacy until joining Aston University in Birmingham in 1992 to undertake a Ph.D. Her PhD research project at Aston was in the pharmaceutics and drug delivery field, focusing on microencapsulation for delivery of biopharmaceuticals.

Following completion of her PhD studies in 1995, she was employed in various posts at Aston University, including lecturer and senior lecturer and was Director of the M.Pharm. programme prior to moving to the University of Huddersfield in 2010 as Professor of Pharmaceutics. During this time, she also became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and supervised projects on the application of e-learning technologies in Pharmacy. She was also a Medici Fellow, specialising in driving forward innovation within the university sector and hold several patents in the pharmaceutical area. She has supervised over 20 Ph.D. students and on-going research programmes focus on chrontherapeutic delivery and delivery of antimicrobials, novel excipients for drug delivery, the mechanical properties of pharmaceuticals and excipients and the development of chewing gum delivery systems.

She has a number of successful collaborations with other universities, NHS and pharmaceutical industry leading to publications and development of new products.

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