Kathleen D. Schaum is the President and founder of Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc. where she has served as a wound/ulcer management reimbursement strategy consultant and educator for more than 20 years. She has more than 50 years of reimbursement experience and success across the health care, biotech, and medical industries, where she held leadership positions at health care companies e.g., Smith & Nephew, Inc. (Director of Medical Products Reimbursement), Healthpoint, Ltd. (Director of Reimbursement), Johnson & Johnson Medical (Director of Reimbursement), and Bimeco (Manager of Alternate Care Sales Division).

Kathleen has consulted with hundreds of hospital owned outpatient provider-based departments, physicians, and other qualified healthcare professionals to start new wound/ulcer management programs or to transform existing programs that were previously in disarray. She has also been an asset for wound/ulcer management manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers - especially those seeking assistance with executive and sales force reimbursement education, with reimbursement strategy development for new products, and with the reimbursement component of the merger and acquisition due diligence process.

In addition to educating many wound/ulcer management professionals, company executives and sales representatives, Kathleen also provides reimbursement education at many regional and national wound/ulcer management symposiums. As a writer and authority in her field, Kathleen has a running monthly column in two medical journals: Payment Strategies in Advances in Skin & Wound Care and Business Briefs in Today’s Wound Clinic. She also has a running quarterly column, Consultation Corner, in Today's Wound Clinic and has been the guest editor for several special reimbursement issues of Advances in Wound Care and Today’s Wound Clinic. Kathleen also serves on the editorial boards of Today’s Wound Clinic and Wound Source. Based on her published articles, Kathleen was recently recognized by EXPERTSCAPE as a world expert for reimbursement;health insurance– she is in the top 0.08% of more than 30,000 worldwide authors – she ranks number 25 in the world.