Ronald Rosen

Dr. Brandt is a professor and Parke-Davis Chair in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research (P-SHOR) and executive director of the Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Brandt has expanded available geriatric training opportunities, including the geriatrics/palliative care pathway, ASHP-accredited geriatrics residency, and two-year post-PharmD fellowship. She was named the 2019 recipient of the American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) Dennis W. Jahnigen Memorial Award for her leadership in geriatrics education. She has worked on various interdisciplinary teams across numerous practice settings and is currently leading initiatives to integrate sustainable pharmacist-directed services to help older adults with multiple co-morbidities at the MedStar Center for Successful Aging. Dr. Brandt has been active in promoting optimal care for older adults and has affected this through her educational, clinical, as well as healthcare policy work. She co-led an initiative that led to the University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, Baltimore County to become the first universities in the state of Maryland to receive Age-Friendly University distinction. She was a Fulbright Program Specialist from 2023 – 2024 with the University of Helsinki to work on Age-Friendly Care initiatives.  

Cathy is an Advanced Practice WOC nurse who delivers care across the continuum, including acute care, long-term care, home health, and outpatient settings. As a clinician with Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates, she also consults with organizations to improve wound outcomes, conducts clinical research, and lectures both nationally and internationally. She has published numerous articles, authored several book chapters and is the Co-Editor of the texts Wound, Ostomy, Continence Secrets and the Wound Care Certification Study Guide, Third Edition. Cathy is a former Nurse Board Member of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) and currently serves as a Board Member of the Post-Acute Wound and Skin Care Integrity Council (PAWSIC). She is also a member of the AAWC Educational Planning Committee and serves as Chair of the Coalition for At-Risk Skin (CARS). In addition, she holds an appointment as Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. Cathy is the recipient of the John A. Boswick Award.

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.

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.