Board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Dr. Simman is the founding president and chair of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery ABWMS), past president of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists (ACCWS), past editor in chief of the journal of the college and sits on the editorial board of the Annals of Plastic Surgery and the Journal of Wound Care (UK).

He is clinical Professor at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Surgery. He is the Co-Director of the Wound Care Program at Jobst Vascular Institute/ProMedica Health Network, Toledo, Ohio. His background includes training in General Surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York, NY and a Plastic Surgery residency at Providence Hospital and Medical Centers in Southfield, Michigan. In addition, he completed a Burn Fellowship followed by a Wound Healing/Cultured Keratinocytes Research Fellowship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, letters and book chapters.

Kelly McFee, DNP is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Wound Specialist and Advanced Practice Certified Wound Care Nurse who has been practicing Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in Northwest Missouri. She received a BSN from Missouri Western State University, MSN from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, MHA from Colorado State University Global, and DNP from the University of South Alabama.

Kelly serves as the Director of Wound Care for Mosaic Life Care and practices wound care both in the acute care and outpatient settings. She is an active member of the American Professional Wound Care Association, Association of Advancement of Wound Care, and is a board member of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists where she currently serves the college as the chair. Kelly is also a member of the PDSI task force, a joint endeavor with the NPIAP and EPUAP.

Frank is the Director of Lymphatic & Wound Healing Services at Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia. He has over 32 years of wound care experience and serves in multiple roles as a physical therapist, wound & lymphedema specialist, hyperbaric technician, consultant, and educator overseeing wound care practices across the continuum of care. He serves on various organizational, editorial, and advisory boards promoting best practices and patient advocacy

Dr. Stephanie Kastel grew up in Petersburg, Michigan. Dr. Kastel received her Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Michigan University, where she graduated Cum Laude with Highest Honors in 2010. She graduated in 2014 from Kent State University College of Podiatric medicine. Dr. Kastel completed her surgical residency at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio where she had extensive training in wound care, rearfoot and forefoot trauma and reconstructive surgery. She currently practices in Toledo, Ohio with the ProMedica Physicians Group. She actively practices wound care at the ProMedica Physicians Jobst Vascular Wound Care Center in Toledo, Ohio. She has specific interests in the diabetic foot including limb salvage and reconstruction of complex deformities.

Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD FACS FACHM MAPWCA, Founder and Medical Director of The SerenaGroup®, a family of wound, hyperbaric and research companies, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of William and Mary and Penn State Medical School.

He completed his residency in Surgery at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and maintains board certification in Surgery.

To date he has opened and operates advanced wound care centers across the United Sates and globally. Dr. Serena has been the lead or Principal investigator in over 100 clinical trials, including diagnostics, antimicrobial dressings, growth factors, topical and parenteral antibiotics and CTP therapy. He founded the first wound healing cooperative research group conducting clinical trials world-wide. In 2011 he developed a diagnostic technique that now bears his name (The Serena Technique©). He is one of the world’s leading experts in infection diagnostics. He holds numerous patents on wound care devices and dressings.

He is recognized internationally as an expert in the field of wound healing: He has more than 250 published papers and has given more than 2000 invited lectures throughout the world. He has a book on wound diagnostics coming out in 2022. He has authored

numerous book chapters. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Wound Healing Society and served two terms on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) and is a Past-President. He has also been Vice-President of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine and President of the American Professional Wound Care Association. Presently, he is Vice-President of the International Surgical Wound Complication Advisory Board (ISWCAP).

Dr. Serena has done extensive medical relief work with Health Volunteers Overseas and served as chairman of the AAWC Global Volunteers/HVO Steering Committee until 2016. Outside of wound healing, he consulted for the government of Rwanda on AIDS prevention research.

Naz Wahab MD is a Board-Certified Family Practitioner and a Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association who has been practicing Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine for over 10 years in the Las Vegas Valley.

Dr. Wahab solely practices wound care and hyperbaric medicine across the spectrum of clinical practice and research in wound healing. She is an active member of American Professional Wound Care Association, Association of Advancement of Wound Care, and European Wound Management Association. She is a board member of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. Dr. Wahab is the outpatient Medical Director of the Mountain view Wound Care and

Hyperbaric Center as well as the Inpatient Medical Director for Dignity Hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Her educational and research mission has also led to publications in wound care research. She has traveled throughout the world educating herself and others on wound healing techniques, strategies, and technologies. Some of her teaching experience includes being a guest speaker at the Gulf Diabetic Foot Conference in Muscat, Oman and part of The UCSD School of Medicine’s speakers’ bureau for the Geriatrics Interprofessional Symposium on wound care. More recently she has gone to Haiti to help develop a wound care program for Hope for Haiti’s

Diabetic Centers. She is currently the Director of Clinical Research and Adjunct Associate Professor of Specialty Medicine and develops wound care educational programs for continuing education for physicians and other allied health professionals.

Lonnie W. Lassiter M.D., M.B.A. FACCWS has a medical doctorate from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management at Yale University. With over 22 years of experience in total patient management, wound care and hyperbarics, Dr. Lassiter has personally performed tens of thousands of wound procedures and hyperbaric oxygen treatments. He currently is the attending physician at Wound Care Specialists P.A. in Forest City, NC and is an active provider of advanced wound care treatments and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Tracy Winkley has a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana Tech University and Master of Physical Therapy degree from University of Texas Southwest Medical Center. She has over 20 years of experience in wound care to patients of all ages across multiple practice settings. Tracy earned her Certified Wound Specialist credential from the American Board of Wound Management in 2011. In 2015, she became a Certified Lymphedema Therapist in order to provide more comprehensive treatment for her patients.

Tracy has developed and expanded The Wound Healing Center at Beauregard Health System and is currently both practitioner and Clinic Coordinator in the center. She is a member of the American Professional Wound Care Association and American College of Clinical Wound Specialists, currently serving on the Board of Directors for the College.

Tracy is a proponent of wound education, providing classes and presentations for national conferences and continuing education courses, as well as clinical internships to both nursing and physical therapy students. Additionally, she regularly does presentations and social media awareness campaigns within the community to increase public awareness of wound care and management.

Dr.  Jean Archer is a staff podiatrist at University of Rochester-Noyes Hospital.  With a focus on podiatric medicine, foot surgery, foot trauma, and wound care, she brings her wealth of knowledge and experience to her patients. Dr. Archer completed her undergraduate education at New York University and earned her degree from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine in 1996. She furthered her training with residency programs at Catholic Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, New York. 

Dr. Archer holds  board certifications from the American Board of Podiatric Medicine and the  American Board of Wound Management. She is a certified wound specialist and has received additional certification in amputation prevention from the American Board of Podiatric Medicine. . Additionally, she is a Fellow  of   the American Society of Podiatric Surgeons( ASPS)  and the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists(ACCWS) . She serves as the media chair for ACCWS and Secretary for ASPS both for 2 years.

Aside from her expertise in podiatry and wound care, Dr. Archer is also actively involved in clinical trials and research, and has authored several papers.  

Wade Farrow is a Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Physician with decades of clinical expertise in wound care and lymphedema. Dr. Farrow graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Univ of Tennessee, and Medical Doctorate from Emory University. He completed two years surgery residency at UT Southwestern. Dr. Farrow is an internationally recognized lecturer on compression, lymphedema, and wound care. Dr. Farrow has served as a clinical associate professor at Texas A&M and served on the National Lymphedema Network board for over a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Farrow practiced for over a decade in College Station, TX. He now resides in Charlotte, NC and does locum tenens. Dr. Farrow has unique full cycle medtech success with invention of the FarrowWrap, and holds 14 patents. Dr. Farrow has now started XSONX, which uses an innovative Vibrational Analgesia Debridement Technology (VADT) to scrub and debride wounds with less mess and less hassle. Dr. Farrow enjoys tennis, skiing, guitar, and piano in his free time.

Lorie Gottwald, MD serves as the Chief of the Division of Dermatology, a position she has enjoyed for over 20 years. She is actively engaged in the education of medical students, physician assistant students and resident physicians through The University of Toledo Medical Center. Her areas of interest include medical Dermatology and effective teaching within the medical community.

A native of Michigan, Dr. Gottwald attended Bowling Green State University as an undergraduate, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude after two years of study. She was accepted to the Medical College of Ohio, and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. She pursued an internship at the Medical College of Ohio, and completed Internal Medicine training there. Her Dermatology Residency was completed at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she was honored to serve as Chief Resident in her final year. 

Dr. Gottwald has had varied research interests throughout her career. She has participated in clinical trials for biological drugs for psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa, and has been actively engaged in research for inflammatory dermatoses. 

She has been dedicated to education, and has earned the Golden Apple Teaching Award twice for her excellence in medical student education, as well as receiving the University of Toledo Community Alumnus Award for the College of Medicine and honored for such. She was awarded the Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Department of Medicine in 2020 and was also given the Outstanding Advisor Award in 2020 for the entire University of Toledo Campus.

Dr. Gottwald has also been very engaged in community education and outreach. She has been an active member of the Ohio Dermatological Association, serving as president on two separate occasions; she is the former Chair and current member of the Program Planning Committee, resulting in a well-received, highly attended annual state educational meeting. She is the founder and President of the Western Lake Erie Dermatological Society, offering regional education on pertinent literature in the field.

In her spare time, she enjoys working with animal rescue and was able to complete a sabbatical in veterinary dermatology. She serves as a consultant for The Toledo Zoo, and continues to work with local veterinarians to advance dermatologic care. She enjoys antiquing, supporting the Great Lakes Humane Society and visiting the beautiful lakes around Michigan, on which she has grown up. Her French background has allowed her to travel to this country on many occasions, and has enhanced her love of French history, cuisine and wine.