New Review Article on Skin Failure

New Review Article on Skin Failure

My new article entitled Pressure Injuries and Skin Failure: The Search for Clarity, published in the February 2026 issue of International Wound Journal (IWJ) provides a historical review of skin failure, beginning with the works of Jean Martin Charcot and Florence...

Wound Care for Geriatricians and Primary Care Practitioners

The following essay is the Preface to the volume of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine entitled Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds which I edited for Elsevier Publishers (reproduced with permission). Drawing upon three decades of experience caring for patients with...

New Reference Work on Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds

I am proud to introduce my volume in Elsevier’s series of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine entitled Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds.  To complete this work I invited leaders in the field to share their knowledge and expertise with the goal of educating...

Wet Cement—A Preventable Cause of Chemical Burn

An often unrecognized and completely preventable chemical injury is alkali burn from wet cement.  I recently published a case report and discussion on cement burns in Advances in Skin and Wound Care. Serious morbidity can occur from unrecognized cement burns, and...

New Textbook Chapter on Pressure Injuries & Chronic Wounds

I am thrilled that my chapter entitled Pressure Injury and Chronic Wounds was just published in a major new reference work. The textbook is entitled Geriatric Medicine: A Person Centered Evidence Based Approach and is available on Springerlink. My chapter is...