Leading Wound Care Experts
To create Centers of Excellence for Wound Healing and stay on the leading-edge of
the rapidly changing industry, National Healing Corporation offers
specialized wound care training, an
exclusive rapid wound pathology service and the guidance of its
Medical Advisory Board of leading wound care experts as part of its turnkey wound
healing centers and hyperbaric oxygen outpatient services for hospitals.
The Board is comprised of leading specialists who consult with the medical directors
and physicians at NHC managed wound centers throughout the country. The Board serves
as a resource reviewing the wound centers' clinical activities including patient
treatments and outcomes, continuity of care and staff training. Additional responsibilities
include assisting and advising on research projects and reviewing educational materials
and articles intended for publication.
Members of the Medical Advisory Board are:
Robert S. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D. - Panel Chairman
Dr. Kirsner is the medical director of the Wound Healing Center at the University of Miami
and director of the Wound Healing Center at the University of Miami Hospital.
He also serves as professor and vice chairman of the Department of Dermatology at
the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Certified by the American Board
of Dermatology, Kirsner is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners
and the American Academy of Wound Management.
A board member of the Wound Healing
Society, Kirsner is also a past president of the Florida Society of Dermatology
and Dermatologic Surgery. He is a founding member and past president of the Association
for the Advancement of Wound Care, and he co-directs the largest multi-disciplinary
wound care meeting in the United States - the Symposium for Advanced Wound Care.
Kirsner has been the principal investigator in studies that received grants from
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others. He is the co-editor
of the comprehensive book, Wound Healing, and the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed
articles.
Andrew J. Boulton, M.D., MRCP, FRCP, DSc(Hon)
A resident of Manchester, United Kingdom, Dr. Boulton is a pioneer in the field
of diabetes with more than 30 years of active clinical research in diabetic foot
ulceration and neuropathy.
He has authored more than 350 papers and eight books
on the subject of diabetes and its complications and is co-editor of the major clinical
text The Foot in Diabetes. Among his numerous honors, Boulton is the recipient of
the first International Award for diabetic foot research in 1995 and received the
Pecoraro Lectureship of the American Diabetes Association Council on Diabetic Foot
Care in 1996.
He currently holds posts in the United Kingdom as a professor of medicine
at the University of Manchester and as a consultant physician for the Manchester
Royal Infirmary.
In the U.S., he also is a visiting professor of medicine in the
division of endocrinology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and
serves on the advisory board for the University of Miami Wound Healing Centre Research
Translation (UN-CORT).
Scott Covington, M.D., F.A.C.S., C.H.W.S.
In addition to his contributions to the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Covington is National Healing Corporation's Corporate Medical Director.
A general surgeon with
more than 20 years of clinical experience in wound care, Covington is the founder
and medical director of the first multidisciplinary wound center in North Carolina's
Wake County.
Covington lectures frequently throughout the Southeastern United States
on wound care, and serves in an advisory role to industry on wound related issues.
He is board-certified in general surgery, a member of the Wound Healing Society
and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
John Leonard Gwin Jr. , M.D.
A board certified general surgeon, Dr. John Gwin is also medical director of Memorial
Wound Healing Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., a NHC managed wound center. Gwin practices
general and surgical oncology with University Surgical Associates and is on the
faculty in the department of surgery at the University of Tennessee's College of
Medicine, Chattanooga Unit.
A past book review editor and editorial board member
of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Dr. Gwin is also a fellow in the American
College of Surgeons and the Southeastern Surgical Congress and a member of the Society
of Surgical Oncology, Tennessee Medical Association, American Society of Clinical
Oncology, Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and Wound Healing Society.
Lawrence A. Lavery, D.P.M, M.P.H.
A medical professor, noted researcher, international lecturer and inventor, Dr.
Lawrence Lavery is considered one of the world's leading experts in diabetic foot
complications. He develops highly specialized educational and instructional courses
at the national and international level, while also serving as professor of surgery
at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Scott and White Memorial
Hospital in Temple, Texas.
The author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers and
several books, Dr. Lavery most recently contributed the chapter entitled Diabetic
Foot Ulcers in Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, published by Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2007. With areas of research interest which include amputation
prevention in high-risk diabetics, epidemiology of diabetic-related amputations,
the use of footwear and insoles to prevent re-ulceration in high-risk diabetics,
and fracture complications in diabetes, he is the holder of several related patents.
Jack E. Lighton, D.O., F.A.C.O.S., C.W.S., F.C.C.W.S.
Dr. Jack Lighton is an experienced general and vascular surgeon and certified wound
care specialist. He was affiliated with Mount Clemens General Hospital in Mount
Clemens, Mich., for more than 30 years where he served in various capacities including
chief of staff, chairman of the surgery department, and chief of vascular surgery.
He also treated patients at the wound care center and the medical center at JFK
Hospital in Atlantis, Fla. A diplomate of the American Academy of Wound Management,
Dr. Lighton is a fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons and the
College of Certified Wound Specialists and a member of the Wound Healing Society.
Stephen R. Thom, M.D., Ph.D., U.H.M.
Board certified in both hyperbaric medicine and emergency medicine, Dr. Thom is
senior medical advisory for Hyperbaric Medicine for National Healing and a faculty
member of the National Healing Institute. The Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society has recognized his contributions to the field with its President's
Award, Paul Bert Award and, on two occasions, the Albert R. Behnke Award. Dr. Thom has also received the C. Longoni Award from the Italian Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society and the Hyperbaric Research Prize from the Baromedical Research Foundation.
An international lecturer on hyperbaric medicine, Dr. Thom
has published more than 70 original papers and co-authored the textbook Hyperbaric
Oxygen Physiology and Medicine. He is chief of hyperbaric medicine at
the Institute for Environmental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and his
current research interests include hyperbaric medicine and stem cell effects in
patients with neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers.
Dr. Thom's professional
memberships include the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, American Federation
for Clinical Research and American Society for Microbiology.
Paul L. Vaughn, M.D., F.A.C.S.
A board-certified vascular and endovascular surgeon, Dr, Paul Vaughn is also medical
director of Chandler Wound Healing Center in Arizona, an award-winning NHC managed
wound center. He maintains a private practice at Arizona Vascular Surgery Consultants,
P.C. and Desert Vascular Imaging, L.L.C. A diplomate of the American Board of Surgery,
he is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Vaughn is a member
of the American Medical Association, Society for Vascular Surgery, Society of Vascular
Ultrasound, International Society of Endovascular Specialists, James D. Rives Surgical
Society and the Edward B. Diethrich Surgical Society.
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