Fighting the Good Fight : Wound Care and Podiatry 2017

Midwestern University Program in Podiatric Medicine and professor of Practice, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. His research and writing interests are in diabetic foot disorders, including ulcers, wound care, infections, and the Charcot foot. He was the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Roger Pecoraro Award from the Foot Care Council of the American Diabetes Association. Adam Landsman, DPM is chief of the division of podiatric surgery for the Cambridge Health Alliance, and is an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has been in practice and serving as a biomedical engineering consultant for over twenty-five years, and has published more than eighty peer reviewed papers. Alexander Reyzelman, DPM is the co-director of the UCSF Center for Limb Preservation. He’s also an associate professor at the California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merritt University. He’s board cerThere is no greater area of medicine where podiatric physicians can exhibit their skillful expertise on the multi-disciplinary stage than in wound care. DPMs, working as part of the healthcare team, have embraced the role of being wound care leaders in a variety of settings: their offices, hospital clinics and operating rooms, nursing home facilities, and wound care centers. At every one of these locations, they are charged each day with the life-saving task of healing wounds, preserving limbs, and saving valuable healthcare dollars. Of course, the successful practice of wound care encompasses a wide expanse of modalities and techniques. From performing basic wound debridement to handling vast new surgical techniques with external fixation, from promptly recognizing neurovascular conditions to ordering state-of-the-art topical wound healing products, sound wound care practice demands a comprehensive working knowledge of all aspects of medicine in order to be effective. PM has invited six acknowledged leaders in the wound management/ diabetes arena to discuss a mix of issues related to the current practice of wound care. They generously shared their insights into this important wing of podiatric medicine. Joining this roundtable panel: David Armstrong, DPM is a university distinguished professor of surgery and director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance at the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Nicholas Bevilacqua, DPM currently practices at North Jersey Orthopaedic Specialists in Teaneck, New Jersey. He is fellowship-trained and board certified in foot surgery and reconstructive rear foot and ankle surgery by the American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. Robert Frykberg, DPM is the chief of podiatry at the Phoenix VA Health Care System in Phoenix, Arizona, and is an adjunct professor, Our experts discuss the latest trends in this area.