Skin Failure and Pressure Injuries: The Search for Clarity

Skin Failure and Pressure Injuries: The Search for Clarity

My article, Pressure Injuries and Skin Failure: The Search for Clarity, was published in the February 2026 issue of International Wound Journal (IWJ). It is open access and free to read. The article traces the idea of skin failure from its roots in the 19th century,...

Wound Care for Geriatricians and Primary Care Practitioners

As a geriatrician, I have spent more than three decades caring for older adults with pressure injuries and chronic wounds in New York City, in nursing homes, hospitals, and outpatient practice. Over those years, one lesson has stood out: wound care is rarely taught in...

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...