Dr. Virginia Capasso, PhD, CNP, CNS, CWS, FACCWS, FAAN was an Advanced Practice Nurse for Patient Care Services, Office of Quality, Safety, Informatics, and Practice and a Nurse Scientist, Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), as well as an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School, until March, 2025. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Wound Management. She is a Director on the Board of Directors of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP). Her other NPIAP roles include Co-Chair of the Stage 2 Task Force, member of the Education Committee and conference planning committees, Nominating Committee, Support Surface Standard Initiative (S3I) [2014-present], the international Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative (PDSI) [2021-present] and two PDSI subgroups focused on adhesiveness and mechanical properties / durability. Her research has focused on methods of measurement of wound volume and the cost and effectiveness of wound treatments.