Diane Krasner

Dr. Samuel Nwafor MD FACP FAPWCA is the Medical Director of The Wound & Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Honor Health Four Peaks Medical Center, Mesa Arizona. He is also the Medical Director of the Wound program at Honor Health Tempe Medical Center in Tempe, Arizona and the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Hannah Medical Institute, Phoenix Arizona. He is a certified wound physician who is also dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. He attended the University of Nigeria College of Medicine, Enugu, Nigeria and did his postgraduate residency training at the New York Medical College /Metropolitan Hospital, New York and the State University of New York/St John’s Episcopal Hospital, Farrockaway New York. Dr Nwafor holds a postgraduate Executive leadership & management certificate from the Said Business School, University of Oxford, England.
He is on the World Health Organization (WHO) Skin, Wound & Rehabilitation Working Group and is also on the Board of Directors of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) where he is the Chair of Public Policy.
Dr Nwafor is also on the International guidelines Working Group of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel/Pan Pacific Wound Alliance & The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Wound Journal.

Ronald Rosen, MD, CMD, CWSP is a geriatrician and hospice physician with Mass General Brigham, specializing in the care of older adults in skilled nursing and post-acute care settings. He has extensive clinical experience in wound management, skin integrity, palliative care, and the complex medical and psychosocial issues affecting medically frail older adults.

Dr. Rosen is actively involved in professional education and serves on the board of the Post Acute Wound and Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC). He is also a member of the Post-Acute and Long-Term Medicine (PALTMed) community, a faculty member of their Core Curriculum and contributes to Caring for the Ages, writing on clinical topics relevant to post-acute and long-term care.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Rosen is a medical-legal consultant and educator, bringing a practical perspective to the intersection of clinical care, documentation, communication, and patient safety. His presentations emphasize evidence-based practice while incorporating real-world clinical examples, audience interaction, and strategies that clinicians can immediately apply to patient care.

Dr. Rosen is particularly interested in wound care as a multidisciplinary endeavor and in improving outcomes through better clinical reasoning, communication, and collaboration among physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, therapists, patients, and families.

Diane Krasner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAWC, MAPWCA, WOCNF

Diane L. Krasner PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAWC, MAPWCA, WOCNF is a board-certified wound care nurse (CWCN) with over forty years of experience in wound, ostomy & incontinence care across the continuum of care.

Diane currently serves as the Treasurer for the Coalition for At-Risk Skin (CARS) and the Interim Past President for the Post-Acute Wound and Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC, www.pawsic.org). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an Inaugural Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, a Master of the American Professional Wound Care Association and an Inaugural Fellow of the Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses Society. Dr. Krasner is a Wound & Skin Care Consultant, Educator and Expert Witness.