Agenda
| Track Color Code Legend | |
| Core Clinical Track |  |
| Advanced Clinical Track |  |
| Wound Therapeutics Track |  |
| Limb Preservation Track |  |
| Delivery of Wound Care Track |  |
| Research-to-Practice Track |  |
| Wound Healing Society Program |
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Pre-Conference
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Session 1: In-Depth Offloading Skills Lab
This skills lab will teach the science and hands-on application of modern offloading techniques.
• Session 2: Comprehensive Assessment of Patients with Chronic Wounds
The session will provide a basis for comprehensive clinical assessment of the patient with a wound and for the comprehensive wound assessment.
• Session 3: WHS: Basics of Wound Healing
This is a clinically oriented session focused on the basic principles and practices of wound care designed to benefit healthcare professionals new to the wound care field, all trainees studying wound healing, and all individuals involved in wound care. This session will focus on the core competencies of wound care, including the basics of normal wound healing, impediments of healing, and wound assessment. Evidence-based treatment guidelines for pressure ulcers and lower extremity chronic wounds will be presented.
• Session 4: Dressings 2010
This session will present topical management in wound care. Dressing materials and technologies will be discussed, and development of a product formulary will be reviewed. The audience is included in case study problem-solving.
• Session 5: Vascular Skills Lab
This session is a hands-on skills lab with the goal of assisting attendees in improving their abilities to provide comprehensive bedside vascular assessment.
Break
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
WHS Program: Session A
12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
WHS — Funding Sources and Grant Review Process
Industry-Supported Lunch Symposia
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Break
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Main Conference
Opening Ceremony
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
General Session: Opening Keynote Address
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Break
4:00PM - 4:15PM
4:15PM - 5:15PM
(7concurrent sessions - choose one)
Session 6: Core Clinical
Adressing Lymphedema to Improve Patient Outcomes — This session will address the complex physiology of the lymphedema patient and the unique management of this condition.
Session 7: Advanced Clinical Track
Spinal Cord Injury: Pressure Management and Wound Care — The session will present ideas for meeting the complex challenges of managing the spinal cord injury patient.
Session 8: Wound Therapeutics Track
Biophysical Technologies — This session will focus on the technologies that use biophysical properties to improve healing.
Session 9: Limb Preservation Track
Diabetes and Diabetic Wounds — This session will provide an overall view of diabetes management with a focus on current medications to treat patients with diabetes and the mechanisms for impaired diabetic wound healing.
Session 10: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Preventable Hospital-Acquired Adverse Events — This session will discuss preventable hospital-acquired adverse events as well as a team approach to address strategies for their prevention.
Session 11: Research-to-Practice Track
Deep Tissue Injury: Science and Practice — This session will describe the pathophysiology and the science behind the mechanics of deep tissue injury, with the goal of developing strategies for prevention and management of deep tissue injury.
WHS Program: Session B
Oxygen Dynamics in Tissue Repair and Homeostasis
[Note: This session runs until 5:30 PM.]
Break
5:15PM - 5:30PM
Grand Opening of Exhibits/Cocktail Reception
5:30PM - 8:30PM
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Poster Session/Industry-Supported Breakfast Symposia
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Break
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
(7 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session 12: Core Clinical Track
Implementing and Learning from the New NPUAP - EPUAP Guidelines for Pressure Ulcer Treatment and Prevention — The session will address how regulatory changes have impacted patient care and outcomes.
Session 13: Advanced Clinical Track
Wound Scene Investigation 1 — A panel of experts in this session examine challenging case
studies from a clinical and a basic science perspective.
Session 14: Wound Therapeutics Track
Compression Modalities: What, When, and How — This session will focus on different approaches to providing compression.
Session 15: Limb Preservation Track
Offloading the Diabetic Foot — This session will discuss methods of offloading the diabetic foot.
Session 16: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Predicting Ulcer Formation and Healing — This session will be a literature-based review of assessing a patient’s risk for developing wounds and for achieving healing of those wounds as well as in determining surrogate end points that will predict eventual healing.
Session 17: Research-to-Practice Track
Controversies in Oxygen Delivery— This session will discuss the various ways of delivering oxygen to patients with wounds. If interested in this topic, see also WHS session B: Oxygen Dynamics.
WHS Program: Session C
Young Investigators’ Symposium [Note: This session runs until 11:30 AM.]
Break
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 18: Core Clinical Track
Clostridium difficile: The Next Never Event? — The session will address the incontinent patient and the role of diagnosing and managing patients with Clostridium difficile.
Session 19: Advanced Clinical Track
Wound Diagnostics: The Future Is Near — The session will focus on what the future holds for wound diagnostics concerning both bedside and advanced techniques.
Session 20: Wound Therapeutics Track
New FDA Approvals — This session will delve into newly FDA-approved and soon-to-be FDA-approved wound care products.
Session 21: Limb Preservation Track
Defining Critical Limb Ischemia: Threshold to Survival — This session will focus on understanding limb-threatening ischemia and evaluating patients with this condition.
Session 22: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Palliation: When to Say When — This session will discuss the role of the wound care clinician in and strategies for the care of the patient whose goals have changed from wound healing to wound palliation.
Session 23: Research-to-Practice Track
Aging and Hormones — This session will discuss the integral relationship between age-related, sex (gender)-related, and other hormones in healing.
Break
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Lunch with Exhibits
11:45 PM – 2:15 PM
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
(7 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session 24: Core Clinical Track
Nutrition Pearls — The session will provide key pearls of nutrition knowledge to assist in achieving optimal outcomes in the wound care patient.
Session 25: Advanced Clinical Track
Atypical Wounds — The session will focus on understanding the diagnosis and management of patients with atypical wounds.
Session 26: Wound Therapeutics Track
New Paradigms in Wound Dressings — In current practice, clinicians face the challenge of selecting appropriate dressings based on evidence and scientific principles. This session will review emerging dressing materials.
Session 27: Limb Preservation Track
Medical Therapies for Arterial Disease — This session will focus on nonsurgical interventions for managing the patient with peripheral arterial disease.
Session 28: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Chronic Wounds and Lymphedema: The Hidden Epidemic in World Health — International wound care will be the focus of this session.
Session 29: Research-to-Practice Track
Scarring — This session will highlight new developments in the prevention and treatment of scars. [If interested in this topic, see also WHS session Organ Fibrosis.]
WHS Program: Session D
Perfect Repair Strategies — From Lower Vertebrates to Mammals
Break
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
WHS General Session
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
WHS Keynote Speaker — Michael Longaker, MD
Approaches for Tissue Repair: Promoting Tissue Engineering and Minimizing Scarring
Break
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
(4 concurrent sessions — choose one)
SESSION 30: Oral Abstracts
SESSION 31: Oral Abstracts
SESSION 32: Oral Abstracts
WHS Program: Session E
4:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Concurrent Mini-symposia 1, 2, and 3 (Oral Abstracts)
Break
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM
AAWC MEMBERSHIP MEETING
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
POSTER GALA/AWARDS/MEET THE MENTORS
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Monday, April 19, 2010
Industry-Supported Breakfast Symposia
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
WHS Program: Session F
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
International Session: Selected Topics
Break
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
GENERAL SESSION BOSWICK
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
John Boswick Memorial Award and Lectureship
Break
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
(7 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session 33: Core Clinical Track
Dermatology 1: Rashes: Differential Diagnosis — This session will focus on differentiating skin diseases commonly seen in the patient with wounds.
Session 34: Advanced Clinical Track
Wound Scene Investigation 2 — This session will continue the themes of Wound Scene Investigation 1 with faculty examining challenging case studies from a clinical and a basic science perspective.
Session 35: Wound Therapeutics Track
Tissue Engineering — This session will discuss strategies to optimize outcomes when utilizing tissue-engineered skin products.
Session 36: Limb Preservation Track
Limb and Vascular Reconstruction — This session will focus on surgical approaches to wound, limb, and vascular repair.
Session 37: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Outside the Clinic and Hospital: Home and Long-Term Care — This session will address the unique needs of the patient residing at home or in the long-term care facility.
Session 38: Research-to-Practice Track
MRSA: What You Need to Know When You Think You Know It All — This session will focus on the science behind the evaluation and treatment of MRSA infections.
WHS Program: Session G
Inflammation in Wound Healing — From the Real to the Ideal
Break
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
WHS Program
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
WHF/3M Young Investigator Presentation and New Awardee
WHS Program
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
New Perspectives on Organ Fibrosis
LUNCH WITH EXHIBITS AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WHS
11:45 AM – 2:45 PM
GENERAL SESSION DAY 3
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
WHS Presents: Hot Topics and Emergent Technologies
Break
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
(4 concurrent sessions — choose one)
SESSION 39: Oral Abstracts
SESSION 40: Oral Abstracts
SESSION 41: Oral Abstracts
WHS Program: Session I
Concurrent Mini-symposia 4, 5, and 6 (Oral Abstracts) [Note: This session runs until 5:30 pm]
Break
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
(6 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session 42: Core Clinical Track
Skin Perfusion and the Patient With Venous Disease — This session will focus on patients with venous insufficiency and microcirculatory function in an effort to guide patient management.
Session 43: Advanced Clinical Track
Special Circumstances: Pediatric, Rheumatologic, and Radiation in Wound Care — This session will focus on the unique challenges presented when managing wounds in children, rheumatology patients, and those undergoing radiation therapy treatment.
Session 44: Wound Therapeutics Track
Controversies in the Treatment of Osteomyelitis — Faculty for this session will debate various surgical versus medical treatments for osteomyelitis.
Session 45: Limb Preservation Track
Improving Flow: Endovascular Intervention Versus Distal Bypass in Infra-Popliteal Disease — This session will discuss optimal ways to revascularize the lower limb.
Session 46: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Trends in Healthcare Policy: What Does the Future Hold for Wound Care? — This session will focus on health and wound care policy changes.
Session 47: Research-to-Practice Track
Wound Care Pipeline — This session will discuss recently completed phase 2 and phase 3 wound healing clinical trials.
Break
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM
WHS Business Meeting
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
WHS Member and Guest Reception
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
INDUSTRY-SUPPORTED SYMPOSIA
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
WHS Program: Session J
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Concurrent Mini-symposia 7, 8, and 9 (Oral Abstracts)
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
(6 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session48: Core Clinical Track
Dermatology 2: Managing the Patient With a Rash — This session will describe the systemic and topical management of patients with a rash.
Session 49: Advanced Clinical Track
Controversies in Biofilms — What We Know and What We Don’t Know — This session will discuss what is known and what is hypothesized regarding the state of the knowledge of biofilms.
Session 50: Wound Therapeutics Track
Minimally Invasive and Invasive Procedures to Improve Venous Function — This session will impart to the attendee data related to interventions for improving venous disease and healing.
Session 51: Limb Preservation Track
Rehabilitating the Patient with the Amputated Limb — This session will focus on helping the patient with an amputated limb through the rehabilitation process.
Session 52: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Wound Clinics: Optimizing Outcomes — This session will address strategies for the wound care clinician when faced with issues of the outpatient wound clinic.
Session 53: Research-to-Practice Track
Putting Mechanical Stress to Use — This session will focus on the science behind using mechanical stress to improve healing and practical approaches to delivering mechanical forces.
Break
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
(7 concurrent sessions — choose one)
Session 54: Core Clinical Track
Practical Issues in Pain Management — The session will discuss managing wound pain, meeting the needs of wound care patient in pain, and the effect of pain on healing.
Session 55: Advanced Clinical Track
Care of the Complicated Acute Care Patient — This session will focus on hospitalized patients who are critically ill, have complex wounds, or both.
Session 56: Wound Therapeutics Track
What You Should Know About Systemic Therapies and Pharmaceutical Agents in Wound Care — The session will discuss the use of systemic therapies to improve local wound healing and complications from pharmacologic agents that may impair wound healing.
Session 57: Limb Preservation Track
Therapeutic Angiogenesis: Gene and Stem Cell Therapy — This session will focus on novel ways to improve blood flow through the use of gene and stem cell therapy.
Session 58: Delivery of Wound Care Track
Wounds & Litigation: How to Safeguard Your Practice and Your Facility — This interactive session will look at the most critical issues in wound care that commonly lead to litigation. It will address ways to safeguard your practice and your facility from legal challenges.
Session 59: Research-to-Practice Track
The Great Debate: Debridement, 1 Trip to the OR Versus 12 Trips to the Clinic — In this session, faculty will debate whether a single extensive debridement is superior to multiple less extensive debridements.
WHS Program: Session K
Chronic Wounds — Molecular Basis of Impaired Healing and Novel Therapeutics
Break
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
GENERAL SESSION DAY 4
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Putting Guidelines to Work — This session will focus on how guidelines are developed and present key guidelines for the wound care clinician.
LUNCH ON OWN
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Post Conference
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
(4 concurrent sessions – choose one)
SESSION 60: Debridement Skills Lab — The session will provide both didactic information and hands-on training relative to wound debridement.
SESSION 61: Certification Looms: The 3-Hour Board Review — This session will review test-taking strategies and provide a review by presenting case vignettes and test questions to help clinicians facing a board review.
SESSION 62: Practical and Advanced Aspects in Negative Pressure: A Skills Workshop — This hands-on session will let the attendee experience and evaluate differences in negative pressure delivery systems.
SESSION 63: Understanding and Optimizing Reimbursement — In this hands-on workshop, physicians, DOs, DPMs, non-physician practitioners, and hospital-owned outpatient wound care department personnel will have the opportunity to audit several wound care cases to determine if the appropriate codes and units of service were appropriately selected.
