Closing Recalcitrant Wounds with Adipose Tissue Allograft And Teamwork

My name is Dr. Anthony Tickner. I'm a podiatric surgeon in the Worcester, Massachusetts area. I am the medical director at Saint Vincent Hospital. It's a pretty large facility for a small hospital so the wound care center has 15 attendings.

We have about eight nurses, support staff, and a residency program for the podiatric residents, which we have six of. It's a nice learning environment. It's a nice educational institution where we have a lot of patients that need our help. We have the resources and the team to provide for that.

We have about 15 attending providers covering vascular podiatry infectious diseases, endocrinology, plastics. We have a nice multidisciplinary approach and we also have nurses. We have podiatric residents, hyperbaric oxygen chambers. We have four chambers. We typically see about 150 to 200 people a week.

As you can imagine we cover head to toe, everything under that umbrella. We are an educational institution, so we love to get the residents involved, the nurses, the other doctors. This is a patient we worked on for MTF Biologics. It was based off one of the products, Leneva (MTF Biologics), which is a fat graft adipose tissue.

They have different sizes. It comes in a syringe. We worked on this project because we deal, as you know, with a lot of patients that have chronic wounds, have holes in their feet, and have bony prominences, and things of that nature. This was a powerful modality to help us fill in some of those voids.

We had a case series of five patients. We worked on this project with our residents. We worked on this project with Dr. Elizabeth Ansert, who is our chief resident. We worked on this as well and with Dr. Jacob Bolling who was one of our second-year residents and Dr. Samuel Gorelik. They were pleased.

They were super happy. You can imagine. It's exciting because it's not only you're going through residency and you're training, but you get to do fun things.

We have two of those three residents here at SAWC. They're excited to present the data on our five patients that went on the complete closure. It's really a good time to get back into the swing of things.

I would like the audience to know that the residents, the team, and everybody from the front desk coordinators that checked the patients into the nurses, to the doctors, to everybody that works with me. I don't like to take credit for anything. I just like to be a part of the team and guide people in the right direction when we're working on projects.

I would just like to say that I'm very proud of everybody. We continue to do great things. We're going to continue to find great success.