Raymond Abdo

Dr. Raymond Abdo is a board-certified podiatrist with degrees from both Creighton University in Omaha, NE and Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center in Des Moines, IA. He spent three years in podiatric residency at Forest Park Hospital in St. Louis, MO prior to opening his private podiatric practice there in 2005.

Dr. Abdo is also a board-certified physician in wound care and a Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association. He currently practices both privately at St. Louis Foot & Ankle and is a staff podiatrist at Mercy Hospital South.

He has participated in multiple wound product related clinical research studies and has published and presented extensively on wound care topics.

Dr. Fife completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two-year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, LLC, a health information technology company, and the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry (QCDR). The USWR develops wound relevant quality measures and helps wound care practitioners meet the requirements of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program. She currently serves on the boards of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (past co-chair), and CLI Global Society, and she is on the American Diabetes Association's Amputation Prevention Coalition. She is co-chair of the Real World Evidence Work Group for the Wound Care Collaborative Community. Past board activities include the American Academy of Wound Management, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, and the American Professional Wound Care Association. She has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks.Her current focus is the use of real world data to find what works in the treatment of chronic wounds.