Maria Goddard

Maria Goddard, MD, CWS, MAPWCA is a burn surgery and wound care specialist in the Midwest. She received training in general surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed fellowship training in burn surgery at both the University of Tennessee-Memphis and the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is board-certified in wound care by both the American Board of Wound Management and the American Board of Wound Healing. She is an instructor for Advanced Burn Life Support and a member of the American Burn Association Aftercare Reintegration Committee. Dr. Goddard also currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Communications Committee and member of the Education Steering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care. Additionally, she sits on the WoundSource Editorial Advisory Board. She has practiced in multiple care settings, including long-term care, and her extensive training, research, and clinical experiences provide a unique perspective on wound management. Her mission is to bridge the gaps that exist among care settings because of differences in regulations and resource availability. Her interests include burn care, geriatrics, global health, telemedicine, and reducing disparities in healthcare.

Dr. Laura Swoboda is a translational scientist, family nurse practitioner, and wound specialist at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. They serve as regional director of North America for ISTAP. Dr Swoboda volunteers on various committees and task forces including chairing the Health Equity task force of the AAWC, the NPIAP's prophylactic dressing standards initiative task force terminology group, and co-chair's the American Heart Association's Peripheral Arterial Disease National Action Plan's patient and community education comminttee. Dr. Swoboda is also president of the Milwaukee Metro Nurse Practitioner Association.