Faculty

Michael Mansour

MD, PhD, FIDSA, FECMM
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

2026 Sessions

Accredited Supported Session: Wound Infection Day: Strategies for Infection Prevention, Bioburden Management, and Antimicrobial Stewardship

HMP Education has designated an unrestricted grant from Urgo Foundation for this session.<br><br>

This session will award 0.25 pharmacotherapeutic contact hours.<br><br>

<b>Learning Objectives:</b><br>
1. Explain the patient-centric drivers of wound infection today<br>
2. Assess levels of wound contamination in inpatient and outpatient settings to determine and implement appropriate contamination and infection management strategies.<br>
3. Examine the emerging threat of Candida auris and evaluate strategies for its prevention, treatment, and eradication from wounds and healthcare surfaces.<br>
4. Explain the role of antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics, antimicrobial barriers, and antimicrobial-preserved cleansers, and evaluate their appropriate use in managing wound bioburden while supporting antimicrobial stewardship.<br>
5. Evaluate emerging technologies for slough, debris, and microbial removal, including hypochlorous acid-based cleansers and charged fiber technology and explain the relationship between effective slough removal and infection control.

ISS Speaker

Thursday, October 15 3:45–5:45 PM
Room Octavius 4
Industry-Supported Workshop
Faculty

Sujay Dutta

MD
Attending physician. Infectious diseases and wound care medicine
Center for advanced wound healing/ Los Robles Medical Center

Sujay Dutta, MD, is a board certified infectious diseases specialist and wound care physician in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Dutta practices out of his private office at Los Robles Medical Center, and at the Center for Advanced Wound Healing located adjacent to the hospital. He has been in practice for over 25 years. He is originally from Northern California, but has resided around the country. Dr. Dutta earned his undergraduate degree at University of California, Berkeley, his master of science degree through the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and his postgraduate training at University of Washington in Seattle for his Infectious Diseases fellowship. Dr. Dutta lives and works in Thousand Oaks, California, and has special interests in virology, immunology, and wound care infections.

Faculty

Lisa Gould

MD, PhD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor

Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School

Dr. Lisa Gould earned her MD, PhD in the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been practicing plastic and reconstructive surgery with an emphasis on difficult wound problems since 1999. She is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at University of South Florida and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University. Dr. Gould brought her passion for research and education in wound care to her clinical practice at South Shore Hospital and the South Shore Health Center for Wound Healing in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Now retired, she continues to serve multiple national organizations, including the Wound Healing Society, the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, the MAVEN project, the Wound Care Collaborative Community and the American College of Surgeons. A past president of the Wound Healing Society, she served on the executive board for more than 10 years. She currently serves on both the Education and Government Relations Committees. She is a recipient of the Wound Healing Society’s Distinguished Service and Lifetime Achievement Awards and the 2024 Robert Warriner III Award from the. Association for the Advancement of Wound Care. Her overarching goal is to improve patients' lives by preventing and healing wounds as fast as possible. She strongly believes this can be accomplished by providing basic wound education to all clinical providers and bringing a broad base of wound care stakeholders together to speak with one voice for the good of our patients.

Faculty

Michael Mansour

MD, PhD, FIDSA, FECMM
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Faculty

Paul Nee

MD FIDSA CWSP
Medical Director
Northwell Health

I am an Infectious Diseases physician and health system leader in Wound Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine, and Antimicrobial Stewardship. I currently oversee multiple wound care and hyperbaric programs and have focused on integrating stewardship principles into wound management. My current work includes developing system-wide clinical standards, initiatives focused on multidisciplinary wound care, limb preservation, antimicrobial stewardship, and hyperbaric medicine, as well as promoting appropriate utilization of advanced wound therapies to improve patient outcomes while providing access to innovative treatments.

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