Heather Hettrick, PT, PhD, MLT, CWS, FACCWS
Heather Hettrick, PT, PhD, MLT, CWS, FACCWS offers in-depth insight into the Continuum of Care Coalition LTD (C3) and the company’s purpose in working with government agencies to right the inadvertent negative consequences of otherwise positive legislation or regulation.
Executive Spotlight-May 2010: Chip Ross,Vice President, General Manager, Hollister Wound Care
Executive Spotlight-May 2010: Chip Ross,Vice President, General Manager, Hollister Wound Care
Ed Quilty, CEO, Derma Sciences, Inc.
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
Travis E. Baugh, President and Chief Operating Officer - Healthpoint, Ltd.
Travis E. Baugh, President and Chief Operating Officer of Healthpoint, Ltd. offers an up close and personal look inside the company’s vital role in the wound care industry and his day-to-day roles and responsibilities in overseeing the business as its corporate commander-in-chief.
CH: Please describe your work experiences that prepared you for your current position as President and Chief Operating Officer of Healthpoint:
TB: I have been a member of Healthpoint’s parent company Board of Directors (DFB Pharmaceuticals) since 2004. Having
Geoff Mackay, President and CEO Organogenesis, Inc. ‘Living Technology’
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
Sechrist Industries: Ed Pulwer, President and CEO and Bill Preuit, Senior Vice President of International Sales and Marketing
Utilizing his passion for the research and development of new life-saving medical technologies, mechanical engineer Ron Sechrist founded Sechrist Industries in 1973. From the beginning, Sechrist has defined its brand with a core set of values — ie, integrity, relationships, service, respect, and dedication. Today, Sechrist Industries comprises a team of distinguished professionals who work strategically to identify, develop, and sustain a worldwide competitive offering of high-quality technological solutions to the healthcare community.
In July 20
Mike Genau Global President of the Active Healing Solutions™ Division of Kinetic Concepts Inc
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
Michael Steadman, President of ConvaTec Wound Therapeutics
When he was 18 years old, Michael Steadman was a firefighter in the suburbs of Chicago. It was during these early years of adulthood that an interest in wound care was established. “I saw plenty of burns as well as trauma-related wounds—that was my foundation,” he says.
After graduating college with a business degree, Michael became a representative for Carrington Laboratories Inc (Irving, Tex), a research-based, biopharmaceutical and consumer products company that utilizes naturally occurring complex carbohydrates to manufacture and market pr
Tom Dugan, President of Smith & Nephew’s North American Advanced Wound Management Division
In September 2008, Tom Dugan became the President for Smith & Nephew’s North American Advanced Wound Management Division (St. Petersburg, Fla). Tom joined the company and wound care market with an impressive 28 years of medical device experience. He began his career working for Johnson & Johnson’s Critikon division. Following several sales, marketing, and corporate management positions, Tom became Senior VP for SonoSite (Bothell, Wa), the worldwide leader in hand-carried ultrasound. Wearing multiple entrepreneurial hats, Tom was responsible for the company’s US busine
Teaching the Teachers: Notes from the AAWC Global Alliance Program in Ghana
During opening ceremonies for the 2005 Sympoisum on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC), the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) announced that its mission was about to enter uncharted waters. The AAWC was going global. As with any new idea, this news was met with both emotional support and caustic criticism. To quote Joseph Campbell, “The big question is whether you are going to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” The members of the AAWC responded to the Global Alliance adventure with a hearty yes. We now have established active volunteer teaching sites in Cam
