Dr. Matthew Finnegan has made considerable contributions to the art and science of wound healing over the last 30 years.  Dr. Finnegan helped develop a wound healing program that incorporated an aggressive wound healing approach utilizing nurse practitioners.

The physician-directed wound care model has come to be the standard of care.  The model, still the gold standard for excellence, helped regionalize the care to improved outcomes.  Dr. Finnegan was the surgical consultant at Magee Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia.  He directed the Lourdes-Magee program to provide care to the most complex wounds in patients with spinal cord injury.  The benefits of this program have been presented at national and international venues as a model of clinical excellence.  

Dr. Finnegan has taken a leading role in teaching surgeons about the role of biologic applications in wound healing and abdominal wall reconstruction.  He is pioneering work in abdominal wall reconstruction leading to the recently completed study called Retrospective Study of the Outcome of Porcine Collagen (Permacol) in Abdominal Wall Defects.  This research was presented at the International Hernia Congress in March 2012. 

Dr. Finnegan has moved his practice to the community in the hopes of bringing the knowledge gained from program development in the tertiary care setting to the community to improve the quality of care, and the local options, for patients with complex and challenging presentations in colorectal surgery , general surgery and advanced surgical wound healing.