AAWC Update

AAWC at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC)

  The SAWC Spring/Wound Healing Society (WHS) meeting is being held May 1–5 in Denver, CO — AAWC Members save 20% on registration (www.sawcspring.com). With more than 70 sessions, you’ll receive an excellent education. Sessions and events brought to you exclusively by the AAWC include:
      AAWC Silent Auction
      AAWC Speaker Training
      AAWC Global Volunteers
      AAWC Research Poster Grand Rounds
      AAWC Celebration: Membership Meeting and Auction

Lower AAWC dues continue

  Please note: AAWC clinicians currently save 20% on membership dues and renewals. For only $115, members receive an entire additional year of financial and other benefits. Your SAWC Spring conference registration savings can cover your dues or renewal depending on your conference selections.

2nd Annual AAWC Celebration: Membership Meeting and Auction

  The AAWC will hold its 2nd Annual Auction in conjunction with the AAWC Membership Meeting during the SAWC on May 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. All auction proceeds benefit the AAWC Scholarship Fund.

  This fun-filled event will include a unique, live auction as well as light food and beverages. Complete details will be announced to attendees at the SAWC Opening Ceremony on May 1. The AAWC also will be hosting a silent auction, which will begin in the AAWC Action Room, where you can view the silent auction items and place your bids on May 2 and 3. The silent auction will conclude at the end of the AAWC Celebration on the evening of May 3, where winning silent bidders will be announced. All AAWC Members receive a special gift for attending the celebration, and all attendees have a chance to win door prizes.

Want to contribute?

  It is not too late to make a tax-deductible financial contribution, which will be allocated to the AAWC Scholarship Fund. To donate, send a check payable to the AAWC Scholarship Fund to AAWC, Attention Lyn Donze, 83 General Warren Boulevard, Suite 100, Malvern, PA 19355. The AAWC will continue to take donations all year, and all donors will be recognized accordingly.

Visit the AAWC at SAWC Booth 1005

  While attending SAWC Spring, learn more about AAWC programs and activities at exhibit booth 1005. Be sure to pick up your complimentary educational brochure samples and other “goodies” available only at the AAWC booth. Also, please consider contributing to the AAWC in the following ways: 1) Support a “team” (learn more onsite at SAWC). 2) Purchase preferred seating for the AAWC Celebration: Membership Meeting and Auction. 3) Contribute to our chocolate bar fundraiser for a chance to win “the golden ticket,” which will provide three lucky winners a prize valued at $115! The previously described opportunities benefit the AAWC Scholarship Program. 4) Support the Global Volunteers program by purchasing a support bracelet. This year’s bracelet is red, white, and blue to promote the launch of the US-based arm of the program. 5) Help fund our Wounds In Need (WIN) patient advocacy program and receive an attractive patient advocacy pin in return. Plus, recruit a member (register at the AAWC booth) and you and the person you recruit will be eligible to receive a free membership renewal.

Educational brochures available in Spanish

  The AAWC Public Awareness Task Force has developed a series of evidence-based educational brochures: ABC’s of Skin and Wound Care, The Skin You’re In, Dress and Compress for Success, and Take the Pressure Off! All four pamphlets are now available in Spanish. Access the brochures at the AAWC website in “Professional Resources.” You may print and share them free of charge, or you can purchase quality reprints from the AAWC Online Store.

  All brochures were created to help patients and their caregivers by providing critical skin and wound care prevention and treatment information in a nonclinical, easy-to-read format. The AAWC anticipates creating additional educational brochures over time.

The AAWC is the leader in interdisciplinary wound healing and tissue preservation. Be sure to Join AAWC on Facebook and LinkedIn. www.aawconline.org