APWCA
* Student Association. The American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA) has formed a student organization, the American Professional Wound Care Students' Association (APWCSA), which held its first educational conference on December 2, 2006. The meeting was planned by the student chapter at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. From its inception to the closing of the event, the activity was completely coordinated by students.
The conference was free of charge for students of podiatry, medicine, and nursing, as well as for residents. The conference was well attended and featured lecture topics that were jointly presented by a faculty member and a student. Vendors exhibiting at the event sponsored a lunch and refreshment breaks.
* National Conference. The APWCA's 2007 national clinical conference, Wound Care and the Related Sciences, will feature world opinion leaders from 7 countries, offering clinically relevant information for patient care. Specific sessions will incorporate computer-active response from the audience, allowing assessment of the registrants' response to questions for a dynamic interactive program. The conference will be held April 19-21, 2007, with a postconference course offered April 22, at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center in Philadelphia, PA. Discounted conference registration will be available through March 17, 2007. Hotel rooms are available at a reduced rate through the APWCA conference block until April 1, 2007, unless rooms are sold out before that date.
For more information, visit http://www.apwca.org or call 215-364-4100.
NPUAP
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) recently elected 3 individuals to 3-year positions on its Board of Directors: Evan Call, MS; Teresa Conner-Kerr, PhD, PT, CWS, CLT; and Laurie McNichol, MSN, RN, GNP, CWOCN.
Mr Call is laboratory director at EC Service Inc, Centerville, UT, and Adjunct Faculty Weber State University Department of Microbiology Ogden, UT. He has extensive experience in medical device development, medical device testing, and pharmaceutical testing, focusing his research on products to prevent pressure ulcers for the past 10 years. Mr Call is actively serving on 3 test standards development committees: International Organization for Standardization, Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America, and the NPUAP.
In 2003, Mr Call and his colleagues received an award for the Outstanding Paper in the Engineering Division by the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. It was titled "Classical Thermodynamics of Wheelchair Cushions." He has made numerous national and international presentations and has published several papers.
Dr Conner-Kerr is an Associate Professor at Elon University, Elon, NC. She is also a physical therapist with clinical experience in custom seating and bed solutions for pressure ulcer prevention in individuals with severe body deformities, and is a researcher with a background in microbiology, anatomy, and physical agents (ultrasound). Dr Conner-Kerr lectures at both national and international wound care conferences and has several publications to her credit.
Ms McNichol is the Director of Practice and Quality for Advanced Home Care in High Point, NC. She is responsible for the oversight of agency practice and quality programs in multiple locations, and is the Clinical Manager of Quality and Compliance, Clinical Program Coordinators, and Educators and Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses. She is the immediate past president and is an honorary life member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. Ms McNichol has several publications to her credit and has made numerous presentations nationally and internationally.