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  • Thursday, November 2, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
    Hands-On Pre-Conference Workshop: Leg Ulcer and Compression Day
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): Algorithm Approach to Treat Hard to Heal Wounds: Let’s Hear It from the Clinical Experts
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Hands-On Pre-Conference Workshop: Wound Infection Day
  • 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM PDT
    Innovation Theater Dinner (non-CME): Hand Me A Tissue – Discussion and Case Studies to Determine the Right Products in the Surgical Setting
  • Friday, November 3, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): Beating The Odds With UBM: A Winning Hand with Visible Results
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): Overcoming the Conundrum of Chronic Infection in Hard-to-Heal Wounds
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): Overlooked: Failures in Evidence-Based Cleansing Practice
  • 9:10 AM – 9:20 AM PDT
    Opening Ceremony
  • 9:20 AM – 10:20 AM PDT
    Keynote Address: Healing with Nutrition: The New Science of Food as Medicine
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    A Multidisciplinary Panel Looks at Debridement
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    AMP Session: What’s New On the Horizon
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    What's New In Diabetic Foot Ulcers
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
    WoundBusters
  • 11:40 AM – 1:10 PM PDT
    Industry-Supported Symposium Lunch: Transforming Skin Integrity: Managing MASD, IAD and Other Skin Injuries with Scientific-Based Strategies
  • 11:40 AM – 1:10 PM PDT
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): Addressing the Clinical Challenges of Treating VLUs and DFUs after 4 Weeks of Conventional Care: An Evidence-based Approach to Accelerate Healing with the Only Product FDA-approved to Heal both VLUs and DFUs
  • 11:40 AM – 1:10 PM PDT
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): Bringing the Data into Focus - Optimizing Clinical Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness in the Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers
  • 11:40 AM – 1:10 PM PDT
    Innovation Theater Lunch (non-CME): Healing Is In Our Blood: Shaping the Future of Advanced Wound Care with Autologous Blood-Derived Products
  • 1:20 PM – 2:20 PM PDT
    AMP Session: Challenging Arterial Cases: How to Improve Lower Extremity with Complex Findings; How CLI Experts Deal with Tough Cases
  • 1:20 PM – 2:20 PM PDT
    Edema in the Mixed Arterial/Venous Leg: What to do?
  • 1:20 PM – 2:20 PM PDT
    Pediatric Wound Healing and Pressure Injury
  • 1:20 PM – 4:40 PM PDT
    Hands-On Workshop: Integrating the Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy and Meshed Bilayer Wound Matrix
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    AMP Session: Revascularization Techniques in Patients with PAD and Critical Limb Ischemia
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Ostomy Management and the Patient Perspective
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
    Venous Intervention and Surgical Closure for Leg Ulcers
  • 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM PDT
    AMP Session: Tips and Tricks in Diagnosis and Working Together as a Team
  • 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM PDT
    Pain, Wounds and What To Do About It
  • 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM PDT
    Treatment of Osteomyelitis: Antibiotics/Bone Biopsy and Then What?
  • 4:45 PM – 6:45 PM PDT
    Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall & Cocktail Reception
  • Saturday, November 4, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Industry-Supported Symposium Breakfast: What Would You Do? An Interactive, Case-Based Exploration on the Role and Timing of the Use of Skin Substitutes in Chronic Wound Healing
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): A New Paradigm Shift in Wound Care: Intimate Conversations about Missed Opportunities to Help Rethink What’s Possible with Early Initiation of Instillation Therapy and Beyond
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Innovation Theater Breakfast (non-CME): An Effective, Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic For The Treatment of ABSSSI In Adults
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
    Poster Viewing
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    Dermatology for the Wound Provider
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    Nutrition Assessment, Nutrition Screening Tools, and Q&A to Address Nutrition Related Challenges
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    The Current Status and Future of CTPs
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    The Wound Care Checklist: Comprehensive Evaluation of Patients with Wounds
  • 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    Advanced Compression and Addressing Challenges in Treating Venous Disease and Lymphedema
  • 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    HBO: A Review and Update
  • 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    Pyoderma Gangrenosum: A Deep Dive into Causation, Diagnosis and Treatment
  • 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    Update on Topical and Systemic Antibiotics For Skin, Soft Tissue, and Wound Infections
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Industry-Supported Symposium: Deep Dive into Pure Hypochlorous Acid (pHA) Cleanser: Examining Wound Sterility, pH, Tolerability and Role in Encouraging Mechanical Debridement
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Industry-Supported Symposium: The CODsensus: Real World Results for the use of Intact Fish Skin in the Treatment of VLUs, DFUs, and Atypical Wounds
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Industry-Supported Symposium: The Trifecta: Integrating Technologies for Optimizing Wound Bed Preparation and Protecting Periwound Skin
  • 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 3:10 PM – 3:35 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Patients Don't Know what they Don't Know: Getting Patients Engaged
  • 3:10 PM – 3:35 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Wound Imaging
  • 3:10 PM – 3:35 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Preventing Wounds in Patients with Prosthetics and Orthotics
  • 3:10 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    Debunking Myths in Pressure Injury Prevention and Management Educational Series

    Moderator: Lee C. Ruotsi, MD, ABWMS, CWS-P, UHM – Saratoga Hospital Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine

    Speaker: Joyce Black, PhD RN – University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Speaker: Tracey L. Yap, PhD, RN, WCC, CNE, FGSA, FAAN – Duke University School of Nursing

  • 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Amateur to Professional: Choosing a Career in Wound Healing
  • 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Drugs for Healing
  • 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: New Wound Diagnostics
  • 4:20 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    Advanced Clinical Practice and Emerging Research (SAWC Oral Abstracts)
  • 4:20 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: A "Tension" to Detail: How tension and stress impact wound healing and scarring
  • 4:20 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: NPWT: What lies beneath? Tips for spaces, tracts and undermining
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
    Business of Wound Care: Opportunities and Barriers to Innovation in Wound Care
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Poster Talks (previously SAWC Poster Grand Rounds)
  • 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
    Poster Reception
  • Sunday, November 5, 2023
  • 9:10 AM – 9:35 AM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: The Healability Dilemma: Palliate or Change the Treatment Plan?
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    Business of Wound Care: Receiving and Keeping Your Payment: Real-Life Scenarios for Offices and Outpatient Departments
  • 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    WHS Early Career Faculty Award Presentation
  • 9:10 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    Advanced Wound Care Therapy for the Lower Extremity: Hands-On Skills Lab
  • 9:45 AM – 10:10 AM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Clarifying and/or Changing Documentation (PAC)
  • 10:20 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Dressings
  • 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    Business of Wound Care: Reimbursement for Lymphedema
  • 10:55 AM – 11:20 AM PDT
    RAPID FIRE: Micro Vascular Surgical Techniques to Lymphedema
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Innovation Spotlight Theater (non-CME): Shining a Light on Bold Ideas in Wound Care
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Innovation Workshop (non-CME): A Hands on Experience from Debridement to Closure
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
    Innovation Workshop (non-CME): Applied Insights of Wound Pathophysiology: Understanding the Microenvironment and Its Impact in Wound Management
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 2:10 PM – 3:10 PM PDT
    Business of Wound Care: 2024 Medicare Payment Regulations: Have You Prepared Your Practice?
  • 2:10 PM – 3:10 PM PDT
    HS and Pilonidal Cyst: Wound Management and Beyond; A Case Based Panel Discussion
  • 3:20 PM – 4:20 PM PDT
    What The Future Holds for Wound Healing