Thea Price

Thea Price, MD, FACS is an Acute Care Surgeon and Medical Director of Complex Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in the Department of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. She serves as the Medical Director of all inpatient and outpatient wound care.
Dr. Price is a(n) Senior Associate Consultant of Surgery in the College of Medicine.
She trained at UAMS, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Colorado and University of Chapel Hill. Clinical interests include calcification disorders, radiation injuries, hidradenitis suppurativa, and other complex acute and chronic wounds. She has a basic science lab that studies ectopic mineralization and heterotopic ossification and runs multiple wound care trials for new technologies. She is passionate about ground-breaking wound care innovation.

Dr. Abigail Chaffin is a Professor and the Division Chief of Plastic Surgery at Tulane University. She is also the Medical Director of the MedCentris Wound Healing Institute at Metairie. She is a Certified Wound Specialist Physician and a Master of the American Professional Wound Care Association. She is the Program Director of the Tulane/Ochsner Plastic Surgery Residency Program. She has been awarded the honor of designation as a Master of the American Professional Wound Care Association. She focuses her practice on wound medicine, complex surgical wound reconstructive surgery, and general plastic reconstructive surgery.

She has authored over 65 publications in wound medicine and surgery. She lectures nationally and internationally on plastic surgery, wound management and wound reconstructive surgery topics. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the current Chair of the ASPS Assembly of State and Regional Societies. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. In addition, she serves as an examiner for the Oral Board Exams for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.