Cath Lab Digest

Last May, Tom Dugan, President of Smith & Nephew’s North American Advanced Wound Management Division gave Ostomy Wound Management and WOUNDS an in-depth interview offering an inside look at the strategic corporate philosophy and business operations that routinely take place throughout Smith & Nephew’s wound care division. The following interview serves as a follow-up piece that offers current insight as to how Smith & Nephew’s most recent success and how the company continually builds upon and enhances their 153-year heritage and respected presence in wound care.

Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWOCN, President and Director of Clinical Operations of Wound Care Strategies (WCS) recently shared how the company’s success comes from an ability to connect with clients, see the big picture, and put together solutions that make sense. Not based on conventional ways of thinking, but instead, aggressively challenging norms to ensure the best strategies, practices, and advice, Wound Care Strategies provides patients with precision strategies and systems to benefit business, keeping each client’s unique need first.

     Founded in 1984, Derma Sciences, Inc. (Princeton, NJ) is a fully integrated manufacturer, marketer, and supplier of a complete line of wound and skin care products. The company’s products fall into five categories: Advanced Wound Care, Traditional Wound Care, Burn Care, Skin Care and Bathing, and Specialty Securement and Closure Devices. With two wholly owned and operated manufacturing facilities in Toronto and China, Derma Sciences also offers contract manufacturing services for private label products. Based on the premise of topical nutritional wound therapy, Dermagran

      For Geoff Mackay, President and CEO of Organogenesis (Canton, Mass), the pharmaceutical business feels more and more like a second home. He has become increasingly familiar with the industry through various leadership positions during his 11 years with Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) and other international companies and he is proud of his role in fulfilling the promise of regenerative medicine.

     Geoff has been involved in regenerative medicine and wound care since 1996. “My initial focus areas were immunology and dermatology,” he says. “I was

     Mike Genau recently packed up his family and bid a fond farewell to Annapolis, Maryland and headed to San Antonio, Texas to become the Global President of the Active Healing Solutions™ division for Kinetic Concepts Inc (KCI). KCI has two other divisions, Therapeutic Support Systems, which offers a clinically effective portfolio of beds, mattress replacement systems, and other products for wound care, bariatric care and critical care settings; and LifeCell, which develops and markets regenerative medicine applications for use in reconstructive, urogynecologic, and orthoped