Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE, General Practitioner (GP), GP trainer and Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

After training at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Sarah became a partner in an inner-city London general practice in 1990. She has been a GP trainer for 25 years and is an active medical broadcaster. She is doctor to several national TV and radio stations, including BBC channels. She is also clinical director of Patient.info, a health information website providing information to 10 million users a month.

She combines her clinical and broadcasting skills to moderate educational events across the world.

Sylvie qualified as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) in 1990 and following an interest in wound healing and pressure ulcer prevention she became a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist at Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust.
After four and a half years as a Nurse Specialist, Sylvie and a colleague formed the Tissue Viability Consultancy Services Ltd (TVCS – which later became Wound Healing Centres UK Ltd) an independent service for research into wound healing and pressure ulcer prevention. In her role as Managing Director of Wound Healing Centres UK Ltd, Sylvie has also worked on evaluating products, assisting with product development, developing local and national policies in wound care and offering pressure ulcer and wound care services to nursing homes and to the NHS.

She has taught different levels of education and presented throughout the UK. Sylvie also developed a Foundation Degree Module in wound care for Health Care Assistants and inexperienced qualified nurses and podiatrists. Sylvie has a passion for wound care that has not diminished over the 25 years of treating wounds and caring for patients.

Professor Amit Gefen received the B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1994, 1997, and 2001, respectively.

He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Tel Aviv University and the Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering.

Professor Amit Gefen received the B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1994, 1997, and 2001, respectively.

He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Tel Aviv University and the Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering.

Dr Leanne Atkin PhD MHSc RGN is a Lecturer Practitioner at University of Huddersfield additionally being Vascular Nurse Consultant at Mid Yorks NHS Trust.  She completed her Masters degree in Advanced Nursing Practice 2010 and her PhD in 2017, her research focus was the treatment and management of peripheral arterial disease.

Her passions include leg ulcer management, quality agenda, peripheral arterial disease and advanced wound management.  She has published over 50 articles related to lower limb ulceration pathways, vascular diseases, wound assessment and quality of life.

She is currently leading the ‘Legs Matter’ campaign aiming to raise patient and public awareness of lower limb conditions and working with the National Wound Care Strategy chairing the lower limb stream of work.

Dr Leanne Atkin PhD MHSc RGN is a Lecturer Practitioner at University of Huddersfield additionally being Vascular Nurse Consultant at Mid Yorks NHS Trust.  She completed her Masters degree in Advanced Nursing Practice 2010 and her PhD in 2017, her research focus was the treatment and management of peripheral arterial disease.

Her passions include leg ulcer management, quality agenda, peripheral arterial disease and advanced wound management.  She has published over 50 articles related to lower limb ulceration pathways, vascular diseases, wound assessment and quality of life.

She is currently leading the ‘Legs Matter’ campaign aiming to raise patient and public awareness of lower limb conditions and working with the National Wound Care Strategy chairing the lower limb stream of work.

Phil is a science and technology professional with over 30 years experience in the medical device industry.

He is responsible for science, innovation, new product development and education initiatives across ConvaTec's business areas, with a focus on advanced wound care.
Phil has extensive experience in the innovation, design and development of medical devices, being the project leader for the Company’s first antimicrobial dressing (AQUACEL Ag) which rapidly became the leading silver dressing in wound care since its first launch in mid-2002. Subsequent development & commercialisation of a next generation antimicrobial dressing technology (AQUACEL Ag+) designed to eliminate wound biofilm and facilitate healing (2014).

Phil is recognised internationally as a leading scientific expert, and widely published in the field of wound microbiology, infection, infection prevention and anti-infective therapies.

George completed his BSc and medical degree at St George's Hospital in London before beginning his clinical career in posts on the south coast. He undertook his doctorate at the University of Hull where he was first exposed to clinical research and began his academic career. He was then successful in gaining a Yorkshire and Humber higher surgical rotation position and subsequent clinical lecturer post in general surgery with an interest in vascular. George completed this training and gained fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2016. He has since then undertaken clinical duties as a consultant at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and research as a Senior Lecturer at the Hull York Medical School.

Karen is Professor of Skin Integrity and Director for the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention.  She is also Visiting Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, a Florence Nightingale Scholar,chair of the International Wound Infection Institute, member of NHS National Wound Care Strategy, past academic editor for Wounds UK and is an editorial board member for the Journal of Wound Care. Karen led development of TVLC, the first UK wide Tissue Viability Service Competency framework. Karen's clinical background is in orthopaedics and tissue viability. She has worked in NHS hospitals in the North West of England and in London.

Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD FACS FACHM MAPWCA, Founder and Medical Director of The SerenaGroup®, a family of wound, hyperbaric and research companies, completed his residency in Surgery at Penn State University 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. 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.

He has more than 200 published papers and has given more than 1500 invited lectures throughout the world.  He is the immediate Past-President of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC).

Dr. Jose Luis Lázaro-Martínez is a full-time Professor at the University of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He got his PhD degree at the same university doing his doctoral thesis on biomechanics of the diabetic foot. He is an expert in Podiatric Surgery certified by a Fellowship Board of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. He holds a Master of Science Degree on Health’s Research (MSc) by UCM. He is the Head of the Diabetic Foot Unit at UCM. He is Director of both Research Groups in diabetic foot at UCM and at the Institute of Health Investigation of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos at Madrid. He was the Coordinator of the Diabetic Foot Working Group of the Spanish Diabetes Society. He is the Scientific Secretary of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG)
belonging to the European Association of the Study of Diabetes. He is President-elect of Diabetic Foot International. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal Diabetic Foot & Ankle. He has numerous publications in international journals indexed in the journal citation report (JCR- more than 70). He has conducted 16 doctoral theses in the field of diabetic foot at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the organizer and director of the annual course of diabetic foot that is celebrated at UCM with more than 19 editions. He has been vice president of the I, II and IV national congress of diabetic foot
and president of the III national congress of diabetic foot. He has participated in more than 300 conferences at the national and international level, in countries such as USA, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, Dubai, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, India, Qatar, France, Colombia, Chile, Turkey and Romania.

Mr Ahluwalia is a fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon specialising in foot and ankle surgery. His practice focuses on all facets of foot and ankle care and is based around major trauma, elective/sports foot and ankle medicine and diabetic foot practice.