Dot has been practicing in the specialty of wound and ostomy care for over 4 decades.  She has practiced in acute care, home care and long-term care, spent 7 years in industry, and has practiced in outpatient care since 2001. She has been Board Certified by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Certification Board since 1995 and The American Board of Wound Management since 2004. She has authored and co-authored numerous papers and consensus documents, and 13 book chapters. Dot currently practices at the Saratoga Hospital Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Current Activities:

•         Co-Chair of the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care

•         Faculty of the Wound Certification Prep Course (since 2004)

•         Member and Secretary of the Board of the International Wound Infection Institute

•         Presenter for the Wound Track for AMP, the Amputation Prevention Symposium

•         Member the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society

•         Member of the World Council of Enterostomal Therapy

•         Member of the Wound Healing Society

•         Editorial Board for the Journal of Critical Limb Ischemia

•         Founding Editor and on the Editorial Board of the Today’s Wound Clinic journal

•         Consultant and Medical Advisory Boards for several wound manufacturers

•         National and International lecturer on all aspects of Wound Management