NPUAP Elects Officers

Dan Berlowitz, MD, MPH, is the new president of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP). Dr Berlowitz is Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, and Associate Director, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economic Research VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA. Other new officers are vice-president, Mona M. Baharestani, PhD, NP, CWOCN, CWS, Director of Wound Healing, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY; secretary, Mary Ellen Posthauer, RD, CD, LLD, president/CEO of M.E.P. Healthcare Dietary Services, Inc, Evansville, IN; and treasurer, Barbara J. Braden, PhD, RN, FAAN, Creighton University, Omaha, NE.

NPUAP panel members include Richard G. Bennett, MD; Joyce Black, PhD, RN; David M. Brienza, PhD; Mary Jo Geyer, PhD, PT, CWS; Diane Krasner, PhD, RN, CWOCN, CWS, FAAN; Courtney H. Lyder, ND, GNP, FAAN; Catherine Ratliff, PhD, RN, CWOCN, CS; George Taler, MD; Spencer Van B. Wilking, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF; George Xakellis, MD, MBA; and Karen Zulkowski, DNS, RN, CWS.