Editorial Board

All editorial decisions regarding Journal of Wound Management are made by the Editorial Board.

More detailed information about the Board can be found here. 

The members are:

  • Georgina Gethin (Editor-in-Chief), Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway, Ireland.
  • Paulo Alves, Associate Professor Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Head of the Wound Research LabCentre for Interdisciplinary Health Research (CIIS-UCP), Portugal.
  • Barbara Bates Jensen, Professor of nursing and medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
  • Dimitri Beeckman, Professor of Skin Integrity and Clinical Nursing, Ghent University, Belgium, EWMA President.
  • Kimberly LeBlanc, PhD, RN, NSWOC, WOCC(C), FCAN, FNSWOC, Advanced Practice and Certified Nurse Specialised in Wound, Ostomy & Continence, Adjunct Professor University of Western Ontario Masters in Wound Care Program, Visiting lecturer McGill University School of Nursing and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Canada.
  • Ruth Bryant, PhD, MS, RN, CWOCN, FAAWC, Principal Research Scientist/Nursing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. 
  • Kara Springfield Couch, Director, Wound Care Services, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C, USA, EWMA Council member.
  • Fiona Coyer, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia. 
  • Valentina Dini, MD, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. 
  • Nicoletta Frescos, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Amit Gefen, Professor, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 
  • Beata Gress Halasz, Assistant Professor at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia.
  • Samantha Holloway, Reader/Programme Director, Centre for Medical Education, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK, EWMA Treasurer.
  • John Ivory, Mr, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 
  • Kirsi Isoherranen, MD, PhD, Specialist in Dermatology, HUS Helsinki Wound Healing Centre, Helsinki, Finland, EWMA Immediate Past President.
  • Michelle Kaminski, Dr, PhD, Discipline of Podiatry, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Miloslav Klugar, Dr, PhD, Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. 
  • Jan Kottner, Dr, PhD, Institute of Clinical Nursing Science, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Jose Luis Lazaro Martinez, Professor, University Clinic of Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, EWMA Council member.
  • Gerard O’Connor, BSc, PhD, Head of School of Physics, University of Galway, Ireland.
  • Christina Parker, RN, Wound Management. Lead of Wound Research Advancement Group  Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Alberto Piaggesi, MD, Director, Diabetic Foot Section, Department of Medicine, University of Pisa (I), Italy.
  • Andrea Pokorná, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, EWMA Scientific Recorder.
  • John Posnett, BA, DPhil. Health Economics Consultant, UK.
  • Sebastian Probst, Professor of tissue viability and wound care, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Health Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Julian-Dario Rembe, Dr, MD, Senior Clinician Scientist and Surgeon at the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD), Germany.
  • Duygu Sezgin, Dr, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 
  • Terry Swanson, Ms, Nurse Practitioner Wound Management, South West Healthcare, Warrnambool, Australia.
  • Kevin Woo, Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University Chief research Officer, Nurses Specialises in Wound Ostomy Continence Canada, Canada.