Program

Advanced Course

Learning Outcomes

• Interpret common radiology and vascular imaging findings relevant to wound care, including arterial and venous studies.


• Determine when additional imaging (e.g., X-rays, vascular studies) is clinically warranted for patients with complex wounds.


• Apply a structured approach to interpreting imaging results to support accurate diagnosis and treatment planning.


• Integrate imaging interpretation into multidisciplinary decision-making for improved wound healing outcomes.

Chairperson: Cathy Kindness

Fundamental Course

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the principles and goals of wound debridement and its role in promoting healing.


• Differentiate between fundamental and advanced debridement techniques, including mechanical, sharp, and adjunctive methods.


• Select appropriate debridement tools and techniques based on wound characteristics and patient needs.


• Apply correct set-up requirements and infection control protocols and demonstrate practical skills in basic debridement methods, with an understanding of when to escalate to advanced options.

Facilitator: Justin Bradley and Hermione Shea
Chairperson: Suzanne Kapp

Fundamental Course

Learning Outcomes

• Differentiate between garment options (wraps, off-the-shelf, and custom-made) and identify when each is clinically appropriate.


• Understand the role of ALA support and guidelines in garment selection and patient care.


• Demonstrate correct donning and doffing techniques for various compression garments and appliances.


• Apply practical skills in using different wraps and apparatus to ensure patient comfort and therapeutic effectiveness.

Facilitator: Stacey Bradshaw
Chairperson: Damian Ley

Fundamentals Course

Learning Outcomes

• Perform practical vascular assessments at the bedside, including pulse palpation and Doppler ankle brachial and toe brachial index techniques.


• Interpret and integrate vascular assessment findings to guide wound management and referral decisions.


• Identify when advanced vascular studies or specialist intervention are required.

Facilitator: Peta Tehan
Chairperson: Saskia Schwarzer

Fundamental Course

Learning Outcomes

• Compare dressing options across different clinical contexts, including resource-limited environments.


• Recognize the impact of habitual practice versus evidence-based decision-making in wound management.


• Apply clinical reasoning to dressing selection using real-world scenarios and case studies.


• Develop strategies to adapt dressing choices when ideal products are unavailable, without compromising patient safety.

Facilitator: Hayley Ryan and Kara Couch
Chairperson: Cathy Kindness

Advanced Course

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the principles and clinical indications for advanced debridement techniques, including ultrasonic methods.


• Evaluate evidence-based benefits and limitations of advanced debridement modalities.


• Apply infection control and safety considerations and integrate advanced debridement strategies into comprehensive wound management plans for improved healing outcomes.

Facilitator: Jose Luis Lázaro-Martínez
Chairperson: Saskia Schwarzer

Fundamental Course

Learning Outcomes

• Apply best-practice principles for clinical photography to ensure accurate wound documentation using personal devices.


• Prepare effectively for successful telehealth consults, including image sharing and documentation requirements.


• Evaluate and integrate accurate photography and measurement in clinical decision-making and continuity of care.

Facilitator: Suzanne Kapp
Chairperson: Peta Tehan

Advanced Course

Learning Outcomes

• Critically discuss the role of shared wound care as a strategy to enhance quality, safety and person‑centred outcomes in contemporary wound care practice.


• Apply evidence‑informed strategies to assess patients’ awareness, readiness and capacity for participation in shared wound care.


• Explore practical approaches and interventions to translate shared wound care principles into everyday clinical practice.

Facilitator: Zena Moore
Chairperson: Justin Bradley

Sponsored by Solventum

Sponsored by B.Braun

Sponsored by Team Medical

Sponsored by Sentry Medical

Sponsored by Convatec

Sponsored by Sentry Medical

Sponsored by Mölnlycke

Sponsored by Solventum

Sponsored by Essity

Sponsored by Medi-rent

Use of technology in wound care
Suzanne Kapp

Q&A

Not Just a Number – Measuring Client Wound Outcomes
Kylie Elder

Q&A

Revolutionising Wound Care: Empowering Community Nurses with AI Technology.
Kate McGowan

Q&A

Wound management through a lens – the explosion of telehealth
Melinda Brooks

Q&A

The Perspectives of Australian Occupational Therapists on Their Role in Wound Management.
Caroline Page

Q&A

Empowering Nurses Through a Community of Practice to Improve Wound Outcomes in Aged Care
Frances Henshaw

Q&A

Tour Down Under – Elite Cycling Wound care response
Natalie Morgan, Sue Pascoe, Danielle Grant-Cross

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Enhancing acute wound management through the evolving role of Australian community pharmacists
Lusi Sheehan

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Odour signatures in diabetic foot ulcers: A study on volatile organic compounds
Yinyin Phyo

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Advancing telehealth provision for people living rural and remote with diabetes-related foot ulcers
Neil McMillan

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High Risk Foot Service Engagement and Emergency Department Outcomes in Diabetes Related Foot Disease
Annabel Nelligan

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Advanced Podiatry Credentialing Improves Access, Reduces Wait Times, and Enhances Wound Healing
Melissa Cooney

Q&A

The functionality of high-density lipoproteins is impaired in people with diabetes that require minor amputations
Zahra Lotfollahi

Q&A

Identification of pGSN as a Biomarker to Guide Clinical Management of Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcer Risk.
Xanthe Venn

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Rethinking Palliative Wounds: Values-led Wound Care in Palliative Care Case Study
Julianne Whyte

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Treatment of severe incontinence-associated dermatitis using polymer cyanoacrylate: a report of three case studies
Vivien Low-Clarke

Q&A

Functioning like a stoma, funded like a wound; bridging the gap in Eloesser flap care
Elizabeth Wallis

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Radiation Ulcer of the Back after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Bommie Florence Seo, Da Yoon Kwon

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Venous until proven otherwise? Rethinking lower limb wound aetiology
Monika Samolyk

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Managing Oedema in Adults with Heart Failure: The Evidence for Compression Therapy
Daphne Cheung

Q&A

Innovating Early Detection: Lower Limb Oedema Screening to Support Healthy Ageing
Maree O’Connor

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A Methodological Approach to Establishing a Patient and Public Involvement Panel for Pressure Ulcer Research
Hannah Wilson

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The In-Patient Experience of Hospitalisation with a Severe Pressure Injury.
Saroeun Ven

Q&A

Primary Care Wound Clinics: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Patient Experiences in Community Pharmacies
Lusi Sheehan

Q&A

Quality of Life in Pressure Injuries: Perspectives of Chinese-Background Patients, Carers, and Healthcare Professionals
Shiwen Liu

Q&A

Wounds in our community: a prevalence audit of three metropolitan community nursing services.
Matthew Dutton

Q&A

Virtual wound care in residential aged care: a scoping review
Heather Russell

Q&A

Barriers and enablers to the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in wound care
Stacey Bradshaw

Q&A

Sponsored by Mölnlycke

Sponsored by Hartmann

Navigating wound care in a complex health system
Kara Couch

Does nutrition matter for chronic wound healing? How dietitians and the healthcare team can support healing and health
Clare Collins

Assessing and managing skin complexities in wound care
Keryln Carville

Sponsored by Smith + Nephew

Sponsored by Linet

Uncovering Chronic Lower Limb Oedema in Aged Care Homes: Evidence from the Largest Australian Study
Maree O’Connor

Q&A

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Portable Low Frequency Ultrasonic Debridement Device for Chronic Wound Management
Margaret Edmondson

Q&A

When peripheral arterial disease dominates the narrative: Missing the lymphatics in wound care
Monika Samolyk

Q&A

Feasibility of Artificial Intelligence Enabled Clinical Decision Support for Wound Care in Rural Community Nursing
Kahlia Borserio

Q&A

Precision Nutrition in Chronic Wound Healing: A Systematic Review Identifying Patients Most Likely to Benefit
Liz Isenring

Q&A

Combination of alginate‑based dressing, NPWT and PRP therapy may significantly enhance chronic wound healing
Mohammad Manjur Ahmed

Q&A

Stimulating the skin – the use of Geko in wound healing
Melinda Brooks

Q&A

Advances in Surgical Site Infection
Phil Russo

Q&A

Effect of ERAS Programs on Postoperative Outcomes: An Umbrella Review
Brigid Gillespie

Q&A

Caring for Laparotomy Wounds, the Experiences of Australian Acute Nurses: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Sarah Montalto

Q&A

Optimising Regenerative Healing and Pain Control in Exudative Acute Wounds Using a β-sitosterol-Containing Ointment
Mohd Zurairie Mohd Zubir

Q&A

Postoperative wound care practices of nurses in a resource-limited setting: An observational study
Gayani P. Gamage

Q&A

Sponsored by American Limb Preservation Society

Sponsored by Smith + Nephew

Sponsored by URGO Medical

Sponsored by Convatec

Sponsored by Haddenham Healthcare

Innovations in delivery of wound care for First Nations People
Saraid Martin

Q&A

TBC title
Courtney Hammond

Q&A

Wound Care with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Hayley Ryan

Q&A

Quantifying Disparities and Informing Better Care for People with Chronic Wounds in Rural/Remote Australia
Kelly McGrath

Q&A

Bridging the Specialist Gap: Telehealth-Enabled Wound Management Improving outcomes in Regional Aged Care
Katherine Caddey

Q&A

Wound Care for People Living with Dementia Across Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review
Harn-Rong Wang

Q&A

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Kirsi Isoherranen

Q&A

Overview of EB
Zlatko Kopecki

Q&A

Wound Management Practices for Gangrenous Wounds in No-Option Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia
Sara Driver

Q&A

Use of NPWTi-d in the Management of Fournier’s Gangrene
Yukiko Sakamoto

Q&A

Arterial Pump use for People with Non Healing Arterial Ulcers and Inoperable PAD
Paul Heland

Q&A

Managing Comorbidity-Related Delayed Wound Healing in Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome: A Structured Surgical Plan
Alison Reid

Q&A

Planetary Health: The Role of the Wound Practitioner
Sharon Boxall

Q&A

Microplastics and nanoplastics in dressings, what is the effect on human wound management and healing?
Matthew Dutton

Q&A

From Dressing Choice to Disposal: Sustainable Approaches in Wound Care
Flavia Carlini De Carvalho

Q&A

Connecting Care, Bridging Distances: How Virtual Health Reduces Travel Burden in Rural Communities
Catherine Leahy

Q&A

Exploration of the Barriers and Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Wound Care in Rural Queensland
Ut Bui

Q&A

Novel Topical Anaesthesia for Rapid Wound Numbing and Prolonged Analgesia of Open Wounds
Meredith Sheil

Q&A

Innovative approach to managing oedema in a longstanding venous leg ulcer.
Rebecca Aburn

Q&A

Insights from our spiny relatives: using spiny mice fibroblasts as a blueprint for skin regeneration
Heather Russell

Q&A

What does the evidence say? Evidence informed wound care
Zena Moore

Mapping the patient journey to enhance wound care
Ellen Davies

TBC title
Kirsi Isoherrenan

Challenges in managing wounds in people with dementia
Christina Parker

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