Wound Care Academic Partnerships

In creating Centers of Excellence for Wound Healing, National Healing Corporation brings the latest advances to its managed wound centers through partnerships with leading academic institutions.

The Ohio State University

With outpatient wound centers in two locations, Ohio State's Comprehensive Wound Center has approximately 1,300 patient visits per month.

The managed wound centers are a hub for wound sciences and care, a place where National Institutes of Health-funded basic research leads to clinical trials as the fundamental principles of wound healing, starting at the genetic level, are translated from the lab to the bedside.

As an industry leader holding The Joint Commission Certification for Wound Care, NHC is an official partner of the Wound Healing Research Program at The Ohio State University in Columbus. NHC is proud to be a part of one of the largest grants ever received by the University in which researchers in partnership with Nationwide Children's Hospital received a $34 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a center to develop clinical and translational protocols that help identify and advance treatments for patients.

The National Healing Institute on The Ohio State University campus offers specialized training for physicians, nurses and technicians from NHC managed wound centers from around the country.

The University's wound care program is led by eminent wound scientist and professor Chandan Sen, PhD, and co-led by highly recognized wound care physician Richard Schlanger, MD, PhD, clinical scientist Gayle Gordillo, MD, and inflammation expert Sashwati Roy, PhD.

The University of Miami

NHC will open a state-of-the-art outpatient Wound Healing Center at the University of Miami Hospital in 2010. The flagship acute care hospital of UHealth – University of Miami Health System, is located on the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine medical campus.

NHC offers its managed wound centers an exclusive rapid wound pathology service in partnership with the Division of Dermatopathology in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the Miller School of Medicine. The service provides NHC managed Wound Healing Centers of Excellence with advanced techniques and a resource of experts to aid in the diagnosis of atypical wounds and identification of effective courses of treatment.

Robert S. Kirsner, M.D., Stiefel professor and vice chairman of dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the Miller School of Medicine, chairs the NHC Medical Advisory Board. In addition to serving as the medical director of the Wound Healing Center at the University of Miami Hospital, Kirsner takes a leadership role in guiding clinical and research activities for NHC's managed wound care centers.