Special Report: OWM People

OWM author appointed professor

  OWM is pleased to acknowledge the appointment of biomedical scientist Richard White, PhD, as the University of Worcester’s (UK) first tissue viability professor. The appointment was made to expand the institution’s teaching and research capabilities in the rapidly evolving area of research and practice that covers all aspects of wound care management, including pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, trauma injuries, superficial burns, and abdominal wounds. Increasingly, nurses are specializing in tissue viability to provide patients with expert services in this particular field.

  Professor White has held a variety of research, education, and clinical practice roles. He is currently a part-time Senior Research Fellow in Tissue Viability at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, with responsibility for clinical research in wound management. He has held a number of posts within the health industry, all involving links with universities. He has written for OWM on topical antimicrobials in the control of wound burden as well as on critical colonization.

Long-time OWM columnist and reviewer stepping down

  Respectfully and regretfully, OWM bids farewell to former “Foresight” and “The Ostomy Files” author Gwen Turnbull, RN, BS. Gwen’s appreciation for the clinician and patient perspective has allowed her to inform (and sometimes entertain) readers regarding some of the harder questions of reimbursement and many of the more delicate issues related to ostomy care, as well as share why a certain king’s urine was blue. In the last decade, her professional and personal pursuits have taken her from the Philadelphia metropolitan area to Canada and finally to Florida. Now an independent ostomy and wound care consultant, related industry members and practitioners (not to mention this Editor) hold her in high regard.

  Gwen is known for stating that the right ostomy system is the system that is right for the patient. She was certainly right/write for OWM. We wish her sunny days and many boxes of Mallomars.

Thank You

  We are grateful to the OWM Editorial Review Board members for the knowledge, wisdom, and expertise they provide as peer reviewers. Their dedication helps OWM maintain its status as the premier wound, ostomy, and incontinence care journal and provide the guidance and support necessary to authors eager to share their research and experience with clinicians across the globe. We proudly thank and salute: Anne E. Belcher, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN
Baltimore, MD

Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, DPM
Des Moines, IA

Richard Brietstein, DPM
Tamarac, FL

Laura Edsberg, PhD
Amherst, NY

Peter Franks, PhD
London, UK

Holly Franzen-Korzendorfer, PT, CWS
Riverside, CT

Marcia Gay-Bales, MSN, RN, MBA, CWOCN
Riverside, CA

Robert J. Goldman, MD 
Philadelphia, PA

Barb Hahler, MSN
Northwood, OH

Michel H.E. Hermans, MD
Newtown, PA

Diane Maydick-Youngberg, MS, RN, CWOCN
Staten Island, NY

Virginia McNaughton, MPA, RN, ET, CWOCN
Nepean, Ontario, Canada

Catherine Milne, APRN, MSN, CS
Plymouth, CT

Eliot N. Mostow, MD, MPH
Akron, OH

Laurie M. Rappl, PT, CWS
Simpsonville, SC

Catherine Rogers, RN, MS, CWCN
Davis, IL

Joy E. Schank, RN, MSN, ANP, CWOCN
Himrod, NY

Debra Sibbald, BScPhM
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Adam K. Spector, DPM
Wheaton, MD

Cathryn L. Vogeley, MSN, RN, CNS, CWOCN
Lake Oswego, OR

Gail Woodbury, PhD
London, Ontario, Canada

This occasional column will alternate with My Scope of Practice to provide news of noteworthy achievements by the people associated with Ostomy Wound Management. If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please contact the Editor at bzeiger@hmpcommunications.com. This article was not subject to the Ostomy Wound Management peer-review process.