JWC Award Winners 2024


Antimicrobial Stewardship

GOLD: Iva Pranjic, Clinical Nurse Specialist, St James's Hospital Dublin

SILVER: Karly Harvey, Operational Clinical Lead Nurse, Swansea Bay Wound Care Service

BRONZE: Karen Staines, Director of Research and Wound Care, Accelerate CIC


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Innovative Dressing Technology

GOLD: Hans Smola, Medical Doctor, Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology at the University of Cologne in Germany

SILVER Laura Swoboda, Professor of Health Sciences, Family Nurse Practitioner, Medical College of Wisconsin and Waukesha County Technical College

BRONZE Tabatha Rando, Advanced Nurse Consultant - Plastics/Wound Management, Royal Adelaide Hospital

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Innovation in surgical site infection

GOLD Breast Dressings Team, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

SILVER Ross Lathan, Academic Clinical Fellow, Hull Royal Infirmary

BRONZE Ziyad Gunga, chief resident in cardiac surgery, CHUV Lausanne university Hospital

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Michelle Deeth new talent Award

GOLD Danielle Burnside, Skin Integrity Specialist nurse

SILVER Nicole Dixon, TVN, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation

BRONZE Helen Myers, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust


In memory of Michelle Deeth



Innovation in the Care Home or Home Care setting

GOLD Aila Evangelista, RGN, Atfield House

SILVER Hannah Fulton, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse, Buckinghamshire NHS Trust

BRONZE Angela Proctor, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

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Best diabetic foot intervention

GOLD: Jayne Robbie, senior lecturer/specialist podiatrist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust/ Birmingham City University

SILVER: Salford Lower Limb Multi-Disciplinary Service

BRONZE: Marco Meloni, Medical Doctor, PhD, Rome, University Hospital of Tor Vergata

Pressure care

GOLD Joan Enric Torra, PhD RD, Sapiens Consultants

SILVER Sumarno Adi Subrata PhD, Nursing Lecturer / PhD in Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

BRONZE Seyma Adibelli, Research Assistant, Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing

Advances in Infection and Biofilm

GOLD: Ewa Stürmer, Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Surgical Director, Comprehensive Wound Center Head of Translational Wound Research

SILVER: Mads Lichtenberg, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

BRONZE: Abdulaziz Binkanan, Wound Care and Ostomy Lead, Riyadh Second Health Cluster, King Fahad Medical City

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Innovation in wound care

GOLD: Mohammad Mohammad Amini, CEO and Founder, SENSOMATT

SILVER: Community Tissue Viability Team Manchester University Foundation Trust

BRONZE: WoundReference & ELCOS Team

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Cellular, acellular and matrix-like products (CAMPs) Award

GOLD Shiva Akbarzadeh, Group Leader, Skin Bioengineering Laboratory, Alfred Health

SILVER American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA)

BRONZE Eric Lullove, Chief Medical Officer, West Boca Center for Wound Healing

Most Progressive Society

GOLD: Prof Kayvan Shokrollahi, Dilnath Gurusinghe & Laura Cappuyns, Mersey Burn Centre, MWL Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

SILVER: Malta Association of Skin and Wound Care

BRONZE: Heather Hodgson, Lead Nurse Tissue Viability, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

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Patient activation

GOLD Tracy Conroy, Specialist Lead - Tissue Viability, Local Community Partnerships CIC

SILVER Ellie Lindsay, Life President, The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation

BRONZE Karen Friett, Lymphoedema Support Network, Chief Executive

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Cost-effective wound management

GOLD: Ter-Er Kusu-Orkar, Plastic Surgery Registrar, Morriston Hospital

SILVER: Nelson Pinto, Professor, University of the Andes-Chile

BRONZE:  Nicky Richardson, Lead Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist, Torbay & South Devon NHS FT

Innovation in chronic wound healing

GOLD: Julian-Dario Rembe, Senior Clinician Scientist, University Hospital Dusseldorf

SILVER: Mark Suski, Plastic Surgeon/Medical Director, Los Robles Hospital Center for Advanced Wound Healing

BRONZE: Gadi Borkow, Chief Scientist, MedCu Technologies

Best clinical research

GOLD: Prof Kayvan Shokrollahi (MWL Teaching Hospital NHS Trust/University of Liverpool), Alistair Hampden-Martin (University of Liverpool) & Prof Kathryn Whitehead (Manchester Metropolitan University)

SILVER: Carlos Alberto Alvarado Dumas, Medical Director, Binnovo

BRONZE: Shawn Swanson, Graduate Research Assistant, Human Photonics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US