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About Us

Learn more about the College’s mission and leadership.

Our Board of Directors

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Kelly McFee, DNP, FNP-C, FACCWS

Chair 

MOSIAC LIFE CARE

Kelly McFee, DNP is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Wound Specialist and Advanced Practice Certified Wound Care Nurse who has been practicing Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in Northwest Missouri. She received a BSN from Missouri Western State University, MSN from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, and DNP from the University of South Alabama. 

Kelly serves as the Director of Wound Care for Mosaic Life Care and practices wound care both in the acute care and outpatient settings. She is an active member of the American Professional Wound Care Association, Association of Advancement of Wound Care, and is currently a part of the PDSI task force for the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. She is a board member of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists and currently services the college as secretary. 

Kelly has presented several posters at national conferences and has lectured at various conferences and webinars. She also serves as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals.

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Kelly McFee, DNP, FNP-C, FACCWS

Chairwoman

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Jean Archer, DPM, FACPM, FAACWS, AASPS, FAPWHc, CWS

Chair Elect, Media Chair

UR Medicine | Noyes Health

 Jean Archer-Colella DPM is a Board-Certified Podiatrist and has been practicing Podiatric Medicine, Foot Surgery, and Wound Care for over a decade in New York.

 She currently practices at Noyes Hospital/the University of Rochester Medicine in Dansville, NY. She provides this care to her patients in both outpatient, inpatient, and emergency room settings. Prior to this, she practiced at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and North well Health care system in Queens, NY as a Podiatry Attending, active in the residency program training program.

 She is Board Certified by the American College of Podiatric Medicine and the American Board of Wound Management. She is a Fellow of the American College of Podiatric Medicine and the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. She serves as a board member of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists and an Associate of the American Society of Podiatric Surgeons.

 She currently participates in research projects and has authored several papers.

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Jean Archer DPM, FACPM, FACCWS, FASPS, CWS

Chair Elect, Media Chair

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Christine Miller, DPM, DMM, PhD, FACCWS

Chair

U N I V E R S I T Y   O F   F L O R I D A   C O L L E G E   O F   M E D I C I N E

Christine Miller DPM, PhD is a certified wound specialist by the American Board of Wound Management and is the Chair Elect of the Board of Directors for the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. She currently serves as both the Co-Director of the Limb Salvage Program and Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Ambulatory Care Center Clinic at the University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville. The research aspect of wound healing is of great interest, and she participates in clinical trials.

Dr. Miller completed a Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellowship in Patient Safety and is a Coaching Fellow for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the Leadership and Organizing for Change program. She formerly served as Chair of the Medicine Department at Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine and taught lower extremity radiology.

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Christine Miller,  DPM, DMM, PhD, FACCWS

Past Chair, Nominating Chair

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Wade Farrow, MD

Secretary

Wade Farrow is a Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Physician with decades of clinical expertise in wound care and lymphedema.  Dr. Farrow graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Univ of Tennessee, and Medical Doctorate from Emory University.  He completed two years surgery residency at UT Southwestern.  Dr. Farrow is an internationally recognized lecturer on compression, lymphedema, and wound care.  Dr. Farrow has served as a clinical associate professor at Texas A&M and served on the National Lymphedema Network board for over a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board.  Dr. Farrow practiced for over a decade in College Station, TX.  He now resides in Charlotte, NC and does locum tenens.  Dr. Farrow has unique full cycle medtech success with invention of the FarrowWrap, and holds 14 patents.  Dr. Farrow has now started XSONX, which uses an innovative Vibrational Mechanical Debridement Technology (VMDT) to scrub and debride wounds with less mess and less hassle.  Dr. Farrow enjoys tennis, skiing, guitar, and piano in his free time.

 

Wade Farrow, MD

Secretary, B2B Co-Chair

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Tracy Winkley, MPT, CWS, CLT, FACCWS, DAPWCA

Treasurer

Tracy Winkley has a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana Tech University and Master of Physical Therapy degree from University of Texas Southwest Medical Center. She has over 20 years of experience in wound care to patients of all ages across multiple practice settings. In 2015, she became a Certified Lymphedema Therapist in order to provide more comprehensive treatment for her patients. Tracy has developed and expanded The Wound Healing Center at Beauregard Health System and is currently both practitioner and Clinic Coordinator in the center.  She is a member of the American Professional Wound Care Association and American College of Clinical Wound Specialists.

Tracy is a proponent of wound education, providing classes and presentations as well as clinical internships to both nursing and physical therapy students.  Additionally, she regularly does presentations and social media awareness campaigns within the community to increase public awareness of wound care and management.

 

Tracy Winkley, MPT, CWS, CLT, FACCWS, DAPWCA

Treasurer

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Kimberly Smith

Kimberly Smith

Board Member

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Jihad Abbas, MD

Board Member

 

Jihad Abbas, MD

Board Member

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Karen Brown, BSN, RN, FACCWS

Immediate Past Chair

A M E D I S Y S

Karen Brown holds a BS degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has over 30 years of nursing experience, with 16 years spent in burn and trauma care and 3 years in enterostomal therapy at Miami Valley Hospital Level I Trauma Center in Dayton, Ohio. In 2008 she shifted her focus to developing a comprehensive wound and ostomy care program in the home care arena, where she served as a Wound Care Program Manager at Kettering Network Home Care until 2014. She started Karen Brown Wound Consulting, LLC in 2015 serving part-time in the Home Care and Hospice arena. In 2017, she joined Sinclair Community College’s Adjunct Faculty as an Allied Health Clinical Instructor, Dayton, Ohio.

In addition to clinical practice Karen has provided consultation services for research and development companies. Karen is a member of the Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses Society and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Wound Specialists (FACCWS). She became a Board-Certified Wound Specialist (CWS) in 2009. She served as Regional Director facilitating quarterly ACCWS College meetings from 2009 to 2017. She was part of the team that coordinated “The Annual ACCWS Advancing the Standards of Wound Care Symposiums” 2015-present. She has served on the ACCWS Board since January 2017 and is currently serving as Chairwoman of the Board.

Karen has several posters and a publication to her credit and was awarded the Nursing Excellence in Performance Improvement at Miami Valley Hospital in 2002 and ACCWS Award for developing collaborat

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Lonnie Lassiter MD, MBA

Membership Chair

Lonnie W. Lassiter M.D., M.B.A. has a medical doctorate from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management at Yale University.  With over 20 years of experience in total patient management and wound care, Dr. Lassiter has personally performed tens of thousands of wound procedures and hyperbaric oxygen treatments.   He currently is attending physician at Wound Care Specialists PA in Forest City, NC and is an active provider of advanced wound care treatments and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Lonnie Lassiter MD, MBA

Membership Chair

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Windy Cole, DPM

Board Member

Dr. Windy Cole is a native Ohioan. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Cincinnati where she graduated summa cum laude. She is also an honor graduate from the Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine. Dr. Cole has practiced in Northeast Ohio for over 22 years. She is an adjunct professor and Director of Wound Care Research at Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine and the CEO of Cole Collaborative Services clinical consulting. She is board certified by the American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery and the American Board of Wound Management.

She has been a dedicated wound care advocate for two decades with interests focused on medical education, diabetic foot care, wound care, limb salvage, & clinical research. Her passion to help others has led her participate in humanitarian efforts including a medical mission to Jordan in 2018 to aid the large Syrian refugee population seeking asylum from civil war.

Dr. Cole has published numerous peer-reviewed and industry articles on these topics and is a sought-after speaker both nationally and internationally. She is a feature writer for Podiatry Management and Today’s Wound Clinic as well as a contributing writer for Podiatry Today. She is an Editorial Board member of Wound Management and Prevention, Podiatry Today, The Foot Journal, Wound Masterclass, Podiatry Management and Lower Extremity Review. She is also the Podiatry Section Editor for the ePlasty Journal and a Guest Editor for Foot and Ankle Quarterly.

She is a wound care advocate on the forefront of wound research and was the 2020 World Union of Wound Healing Silver Medal Award recipient for her work in Technology-driven Research and the 2022 recipient of the Kaplan-Kanat Memorial Lecture Award. Dr. Cole is a member of the ACCWS BOD. Additionally, she sits on the advisory board of multiple emerging biotech companies and has been integral in collaborating on innovative research protocols in the space.

Windy Cole, DPM

Board Member

Letter from the Chairwoman

A New Year

 I hope that your holiday season was filled with peace, love, and joy and that you and your loved ones are well as we near the end of this first month of the year. This past year was notable for sustained growth and success for the college. With a return to our live symposium, 2023 is sure to carry these same themes.

The American College of Clinical Wound Specialists is dedicated to the advocacy, ongoing wound care education, and support of credentialed wound care providers of all disciplines. Our members strive to improve the public’s health by practicing and encouraging evidence-based wound care management to promote healing. Our educational mission is critical to meeting the educational needs of our multidisciplinary members in order to allow them to provide their patients with the most up-to-date, evidence-based wound care. In 2023, you can expect to see quarterly round table discussions that offer a multidisciplinary approach to pertinent wound care challenges, as well as hot topics in wound care presented at our annual symposium. Our ongoing affiliation with the Journal of Wound Care further supports the academic mission of the college and I encourage members to submit their work to the journal for publication.

I am excited to present our new board members to you: Dr. Jihad Abbas, Dr. Windy Cole, and Dr. Wade Farrow. I am certain that you will see new innovations in education at the college from these additions to our team as we look to provide more meaningful educational experiences to both our clinicians and our student membership.

Save the date now for our annual, and in person, ACCWS Symposium, in Charleston, South Carolina- September 8th-9th at the Francis Marion Hotel (with a virtual option still available through Whova).  Register now to take advantage of our early bird pricing. See you in Charleston!

 

Respectfully,

 Kelly McFee, DNP, FNP, CWS, FACCWS

Chair, Board of Directors-ACCWS

 

 

General Mission of the College

The American College of Clinical Wound Specialists is dedicated to the advocacy, ongoing wound care education, and support of credentialed wound care providers of all disciplines. Our members strive to improve the public’s health by practicing and encouraging evidence-based wound care management to promote healing.

 

Educational Mission of the College

The College exists to meet the educational needs of its members in order to allow them to provide their patients with the most up-to-date, evidence-based wound care. Through quality educational offerings, the College provides the wound care community the tools, irrespective of their specific discipline, to perform the best possible wound care.

The College offers two wound care education avenues, the first is an on-site hosted option which your organization can fund. The second allows individuals to learn from top presenters in the industry in a conference setting. The College will soon offer online educational courses that you may take at your leisure.

 

FAQ’s

Do I need to be a member to take a course?

No. However, members receive a discounted rate.

What are the steps I need to take or how do I become eligible to become qualified to join the College?

First, obtain certification in one of the Certifying Agencies recognized by the College. Next, Click Here and follow the directions.

What can The American College of Clinical Wound Specialists offer me?

The College is uniquely positioned to provide networking and collaboration with fellow certified practitioners AND provide both the resources and access to quality scientifically-based education for those that are seeking to become certified or advance as a Fellow of the College.

What can the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists do for me as a wound care practitioner?

The College is a unifying body of interdisciplinary wound care practitioners, seeking to provide their patients with the most relevant and current wound care. As a member of the College, you will have access to and be able to network with fellow providers both in your discipline and across disciplines. The College will notify you of cutting-edge educational presentations available in your region. Having a voice in the leadership of the College, an opportunity to serve on committees or task forces will help shape the future of wound care and the College.

What can the College do for me as a Fellow of the College of Clinical Wound Specialists® (FACCWS)?

The presence of the College of Clinical Wound Specialists® is a collaborative of those certified in wound care by recognized and accredited programs, including the CWS® designation. The College serves to maintain the validity of specialty certification and to empower the professionals who have attained this level of education. By uniting as Fellows, the College will enhance our ability to work to increase provider relations, educate the public, and lobby Congress/CMS to recognize the designations of wound care specialist. CWS®, WCC®, ABWMS®, CWCA®, CWSP®, WCC®, CWOCN®, CWCN®, CWON®, CWOCN-AP®, CWCN-AP®, CWON-AP® are desirable credentials when considering rendering payment for the care of patients with wounds. Additionally, the College, by virtue of truly being multi-disciplinary, bridges many of the wound care societies, organizations and industry providers as an advocacy arm. Together we can accomplish changes in wound care practice, policy and payment.

Does the College publish a Journal?

The American College of Clinical Wound Specialists invites it members to submit works to the ACCWS™ Quarterly Newsletter or Blog. The College also partners with the Journal of Wound Care & Wound Central to provide publishing opportunities for our members.   Learn more here

The archived Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists can be found at http://jaccws.org.

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