Ted Tomter, RN, CWOCN
Regional Vice President
National Healing Corporation
Ted Tomter, regional vice president for National Healing Corporation, is responsible for clinical and business operations at NHC wound healing centers in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. Additional duties include the integration of new and existing facilities in those states. Tomter supervises Regional Directors who lead teams assuring clinical excellence, management best practices, consistency of services, and fiscal accountability.
Tomter is a member of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society and has served on the National Conference Planning Committee and as chair of professional practice. He is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the American Nurses Association, the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists, and the Georgia Nurses Association, where he served as vice president from 1999 to 2001.
Named Georgia Nurse of the Year in 1998, Tomter is licensed in North Carolina and Georgia and has 20 years of experience in the field. Prior to joining NHC, he was the senior wound, ostomy, and continence nurse specialist at St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in Savannah, Ga. Additional experience in the field includes serving in the US Army Nurse Corps as a staff nurse and nursing positions with Advanced Home Care and Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, N.C., and High Smith Rainey Hospital in Fayetteville, N.C.
Tomter lectures and publishes extensively about advanced wound care technologies and contributed to the widely used textbook Acute and Chronic Wounds. Professional talks include the keynote addresses for the Georgia Nurse Association conference and the Georgia Organization of Nurse Executives and presentations at the WOCN International Conferences in 2001 and 2002. In addition to co-chairing the educational faculty for Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ tissue engineering national wound healing advisory panel, he is a national speaker for industry leaders Johnson & Johnson, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, and KCI.
After studying at the Academy of Health Science School of Nursing at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, Tomter received his bachelor's degree in nursing from North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. He also completed the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Education Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.
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