Joshua Morriss

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.

Joshua Morriss, Ph.D., serves as the CEO and Cofounder of Ziplitics, a research services corporation for the health sciences. Dr. Morriss obtained a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University, where his research was on explainable artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and QSRR and QSPR models. He has expertise in explainable AI, metabolomics, and natural language processing, with experience in cardiovascular and inflammatory disease management. He is the inventor of the Literature Review Network (LRN), a propriety explainable AI platform for literature reviews, meta-analyses, real world evidence research and health economics outcomes research. As an advocate for trustworthy AI use, Dr. Morriss collaborates with pharmaceutical and medical device companies to conduct cutting-edge evidence-based research and responsibly develop consensus statements that help inform and shape wound care practice. Dr. Morriss has also collaborated with WOCNs and wound-care experts to produce the first ever XAI-assisted Consensus Statement. The evidence underpinning this consensus statement on ostomy care was generated in 5 business days.

Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN is an emertus Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She taught advanced pathophysiology to nurse practitioner, pharmacy and physical therapy students. Dr. Black also supervised research activities of graduate students. She is an Internationally recognized expert in pressure injury prevention and treatment. Dr. Black is a past President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and has been active in developing many position papers related to the COVID-19 crisis and detecting pressure injury in persons with very dark skin. She is often credited with the rediscovery of deep tissue pressure injury and was inducted into the Academy of Nursing for this work. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, most recently the Joyce Black Excellence in Teaching Award created for her accomplishments with NPIAP and given to her as the first recipient. A prior award was the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work to rediscover deep tissue pressure injury.