Friday, 14th February 2025
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
Sponsored by:
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
Sponsored by:
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
Sponsored by:
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
Supported by:
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
Sponsored by:
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
Sponsored by:
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
Supported by:
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
Supported by:
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