Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death

I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news.  It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed people with diabetes at a barbecue, cooking and dancing.  How different this was from my day...

Upcoming Talks at SAWC

I am thrilled to announce that I will be presenting in two sessions at the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) which is going on from April 25 to 29, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  SAWC is a leading educational forum for interdisciplinary wound care...

Wound Care: What the Medical Director Needs to Know

This article was published in Caring For the Ages, a journal sponsored by the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.  The article covers everything the medical director needs to know about wound...

Skin Failure: An Emerging Concept

This article was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and is available for download. Skin failure is an emerging concept that ties together and clarifies current trends in clinical practice. Many studies have associated acute...