Founder's Award Winner
The Sharon Baranoski Founder's Award is given annually to honor overall pursuit of excellence in the field of skin and wound care. This year's winner is Laura Bolton, PhD. She received the award at the recent 16th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Dr Bolton, the Director of Outcomes Research for ConvaTec, A Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, is well known as a mentor to skin and wound care professionals, many of whom have gone on to become leaders in the field. Long before the term "evidence-based practice" was in vogue, she was discussing the value of skin and wound care based on science, evidence, and cost-effectiveness of care in her lectures and articles. By encouraging practitioners to "think outside the box," Dr Bolton has enhanced the care that many patients now receive.
The Sharon Baranoski Founder's Award is given by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, publisher of Advances in Skin & Wound Care and one of the sponsors of the Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care, in honor of Sharon Baranoski, MSN, RN, CWOCN, founder and symposium director. This year, the award was supported by an educational grant from 3M Health Care.
For more information about submitting a nominee for next year's award, call 1-800-346-7844, ext. 1272, or E-mail [email protected]. FIGURE
Join Us in Dallas
The 17th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care will take place September 21 to 24, 2002, at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion, Dallas, TX. More information on the conference will be available in future issues of Advances in Skin & Wound Care and at our Web site, http://www.woundcarenet.com.
In addition, oral and poster abstracts on all aspects of skin and wound care are being sought for presentation at the conference. Deadline for submission is July 1, 2002.
To be added to the mailing list for the conference brochure or to obtain a copy of the abstract submission packet, call 1-800-346-7844, ext. 1272, or E-mail [email protected].