Susie Seaman is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Wound Care Nurse (CWCN), and Wound Specialist (CWS) based in San Diego, California. She holds a Master's degree in Nursing from San Diego State University, and a Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the University of California, San Diego. She was a Certified Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurse (CWOCN) for 32 years before dropping the ostomy/continence certification to focus only on wound care. She initially practiced in the home health care arena for eight years before moving to the outpatient clinic setting 27 years ago. Since that time, Ms. Seaman founded and then practiced in three large wound clinics in San Diego County. These included a hospital-based wound clinic, a 600+ provider multi-specialty medical group, and one of the nation’s largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC). She also worked in an Infectious Disease practice where she oversaw antibiotic therapy for patients with skin and soft tissue infections, osteomyelitis, and other challenging infections. Ms. Seaman has been a principal investigator on several research projects involving wound and ostomy care. Her Master’s thesis examined Braden Scale scores and the incidence of pressure ulcers in the home hospice setting. Ms. Seaman speaks nationally on a variety of topics, including chronic wound care, wound assessment, lower extremity wounds, topical therapy, and use of advanced technologies. She has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on both wound and ostomy care. She has a special interest in the treatment of lower extremity ulcers and the diagnosis and treatment of atypical wounds. She is on the faculty of the Wound Certification Prep Course and serves on the committee of the International Wound Infection Institute (IWII).