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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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WO U N D  C A R E   E X P E R T S

Naz Wahab MD is a Board-Certified Family Practitioner and a Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association who has been practicing Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine for over 10 years in the Las Vegas Valley.

Dr. Wahab solely practices wound care and hyperbaric medicine across the spectrum of clinical practice and research in wound healing. She is an active member of American Professional Wound Care Association, Association of Advancement of Wound Care, and European Wound Management Association. She is a board member of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. Dr. Wahab is the outpatient Medical Director of the Mountain view Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center as well as the Inpatient Medical Director for Dignity Hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Her educational and research mission has also led to publications in wound care research. She has traveled throughout the world educating herself and others on wound healing techniques, strategies, and technologies. Some of her teaching experience includes being a guest speaker at the Gulf Diabetic Foot Conference in Muscat, Oman and part of The UCSD School of Medicine’s speakers’ bureau for the Geriatrics Interprofessional Symposium on wound care. More recently she has gone to Haiti to help develop a wound care program for  Hope for Haiti’s Diabetic Centers. She is currently the Director of Clinical Research and Adjunct Associate Professor of Specialty Medicine and develops wound care educational programs for continuing education for physicians and other allied health professionals

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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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 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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Chair Elect

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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WR I G H T  S T A T E  U N I V E R S I T Y

Dr. Simman is the founding president and chair of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery, past president of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists (ACCWS), past editor in chief of the journal of the college and sits on the editorial review board of the Annals of Plastic Surgery. President and Founding Chair of Simman Wound Care and Fellowships.org. He is clinical Professor at the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Dermatology at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, CoDirector of the Wound Care Program at Jobst Vascular Institute/ProMedica Health System, Toledo, Ohio.

His background includes training in General Surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York, NY and a Plastic Surgery residency at Providence Hospital and Medical Centers in Southfield, Michigan. In addition, he completed a Burn Fellowship followed by a Wound Healing and cultured keratinocytes Research Fellowship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, letters and book
chapters.

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Treasurer

Kimberly Smith BS, RN, COWN, FACCWS is an experienced Clinical Specialist with 3M medical science division.  She has over 15 years demonstrated history of outcomes driven program management in the home health and medical device industries.

Kimberly has a bachelor’s degree in therapy from Clemson University and is a licensed registered nurse.  Advanced credentials include wound nurse certification from the Medical University of South Carolina, ostomy nurse certification from Emory University and a fellow of the American College of Clinical Wound Care Specialists.

She is a published author, has presented multiple posters at national conferences for the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), and is a guest speaker for the Georgia Podiatric Medical Association and WOCN.  Professional organizations include active membership in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society,

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.