Wounds Week 10 - Night 1

Dr. Jeffrey Niezgoda has dedicated his professional life to optimizing outcomes in wound healing.
He is the Past President of the American Professional Wound Care Association and the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. He is Founder and President Emeritus of AZH Wound and Hyperbaric Center (2015-2021). Dr. Niezgoda was the Hyperbaric Medical Director at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee (1999-2013). Dr. Niezgoda serves as the CMO for Kent Imaging and for WebCME, an international educational wound care and hyperbaric company. Dr. Niezgoda is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy (1981) and received his MD from the Uniformed Services
University of Health Science (1985).

Martha Kelso, Chief Regulatory Officer of one of the nation's largest mobile wound
care organizations, is a trailblazing visionary and esteemed entrepreneur in post-acute care. With an unwavering commitment to advancing the art and science of wound healing, she is a published author, clinical editor for prestigious peer-reviewed journals, expert witness in wound litigation, and a member of numerous national advisory boards. Widely recognized as an award-winning industry leader, she tirelessly shapes the future of healthcare.

Kent Imaging, a leading innovator in tissue oxygenation assessment, designs and manufactures imaging technology that supports realtime decision-making in wound care, vascular and surgical specialties. Unlike some devices that only measure the macrovasculature, SnapshotNIR utilizes near-infrared light to go below the surface and measure tissue oxygen saturation, oxyhemoglobin, deoxyhemoglobin and total hemoglobin in the microvascular network. Use actionable data to document medical necessity, expedite vascular assessment, design treatment plans, and track and document therapeutic efficacy.

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.