AWSA 2025

Terry Swanson

Nurse Practitioner,

and AWSA Board Chair

Terry Swanson completed her undergraduate work in the USA before immigrating to Australia. She was endorsed by NBV in 2003 and Victorian Government in 2004 as one of the first Nurse Practitioners in her state and in the area of wound management. Terry was admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Wound Management Association in 2010 for her significant contribution to wound management at a state, national and international level. She is the current Vice Chair of the International Wound Infection Institute (IWII) and chaired the development and publication of the 2016 IWII Consensus Document Update on Wound Infection and is Co- chair of the 2022 publication.

Terry served as the Chair of IWII from 2012 until 2015. In 2020 Terry was invited onto the World Union Wound Healing Societies Board and is the current Co-chair of the Supporting Societies subcommittee. Terry has published and presented on chronic wounds and wound infection nationally and internationally. She was the co-author and co- editor for the book Wound Management for the Advanced Practitioner. Terry was the Scientific Chair of the 2018 Wounds Australia National Conference and Co-chair for the 2022 conference.

In 2023 Terry and her colleagues formed the Australian Wound and Skin Alliance and will host their first Summer School in February 2024. She is the inaugural Chair. She has held positions of responsibility of various nursing and wound related boards locally, nationally, and internationally. Frequently, Terry is an invited speaker nationally and internationally and loves to share her knowledge and passion of helping to heal and provide best practice.

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