Driving Innovation Summit | Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring 2024

The Wound Care Collaborative Community Driving Innovation Summit

May 2, 2025 | Grapevine, TX

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This May, co-located with SAWC Spring | WHS, the Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) will host its second invite-only event, the Wound Care Collaborative Community Driving Innovation Summit, bringing together thought leaders from the WCCC, FDA, and CMS along with key opinion leaders, researchers, and representatives from industry, health systems, and payers to evaluate the barriers to wound care innovation and learn how we can overcome those barriers together. Our goal is to foster the development and availability of innovative and effective wound-healing therapies to drive advancement and outcomes.

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About the Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC)

The Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) is an FDA-approved and recognized Collaborative Community focused on stimulating wound care innovation to improve product safety and patient access to cutting-edge medical technology while reducing cost and time to market. The WCCC acts as a focal point for collaboration between various segments of the wound care community and works closely together with the FDA and CMS on medical device, drug, and biologic challenges to achieve common objectives and outcomes that are squarely focused on removing the barriers to innovation for patients.

Agenda & Speakers

Agenda

Speakers

Agenda

- What Topics Will be Covered?
  7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
  
  Registration and Light Breakfast
  
  8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
  
  Opening Remarks: Coming Together as a Community
  
  Speaker: Dr. Vickie R. Driver, Chair Board of Directors
  
  8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  
  Keynote Address
  
  Speaker: TBD
  
  9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
  
  Keynote Address Q&A
  
  Speaker: TBD
  
  9:30 AM - 10:40 AM
  
  Overview and Update of Current WCC Projects
  
  9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  
  Natural History Project (RWE)
  
  Speakers: Dr. Luc Vlad & Dr. Caroline Fife
  
  10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
  
  Diagnostics: Tools for Wound Healing
  
  Speakers: Dr. Alisha Oropallo & Dr. Holly Kovzendorfer
  
  10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
  
  Improving Clinical Trial Design and Reporting
  
  Speakers: Dr. Marissa Carter & Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic
  
  10:40 AM - 10:55 AM
  
  Break
  
  10:55 AM - 11:40 AM
  
  Panel Discussion and Q&A: Wound Care Projects and Subject Matter Experts
  
  Chair: Dr. Alisha Oropallo
  
  Panel: Dr. Bill Ennis, Dr. Bill Tettelbach, Dr. Emma Wright, Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr. K. Dev Verma, and Dr Oscar Alvarez
  
  11:40 AM - 11:55 AM
  
  Advanced Wound Care and Dressing Standards
  
  Speaker: Dr. Sarah Griffiths
  
  11:55 AM - 12:10 PM
  
  Defining Standard of Care: Intro and Update
  
  Speaker: Dr. Maribel Henao
  
  12:10 PM - 12:25 PM
  
  Recommendations for Chronic Wounds: FDA Guidance Update on Clinical Trial Design
  
  Speakers: Dr. Windy Cole & Dr. Mitch Sanders
  
  12:25 PM - 12:45 PM
  
  New Initiatives: ICD-10 DFU and 10-Year DFU Wound Registry
  
  Speakers: Donna Cartwright & Dr. Vickie Driver
  
  12:45 PM - 1:20 PM
  
  Lunch
  
  1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
  
  Panel Discussion and Q&A: WCCC Project Discussion
  
  Chair: Dr. Windy Cole
  
  Panel: Dr. Bill Ennis, Dr. Bill Tettelbach, Dr. Emma Wright, Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr. K. Dev Verma, Dr. Dheeredra Kommala, and Dr. Teresa Jones
  
  2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
  
  AI, Should We Plan and What Do We Know
  
  Speakers: Patrick Chang, Karen Cross, Dr. Beate Hanson
  
  2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
  
  Decentralized Clinical Trials and Remote Patient Monitoring
  
  Speakers: Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr. Emma Wright, and Dr. K. Dev Verma
  
  3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
  
  Health Equity
  
  Speakers: Dr. Yu-Chieh Chiu, Dr. Caroline Fife, Dr. Weimeng Wang
  
  3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
  
  Break
  
  4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
  
  Engagement with FDA, NIH, and WCCC for Start-Up Companies
  
  Co-Chairs: Joe Rolley & Dr. Vickie Driver
  
  Panel: Dr. K. Dev Verma, Dr. Yu-Chieh Chiu, Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic, Dr. Marissa Carter, Howard Walthall, Kathleen Fritsch, Dr. Shabnam Vaezzadeh, and Dr. David Sommers
  
  4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
  
  Supporting Innovation: Round Table Discussion with FDA and CMS
  
  Co-Chairs: Howard Walthall & Joe Rolley
  
  Panel: Dr. David Sommers, Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr. Dheerendra Kommala, Dr. Beate Hanson, Dr. Windy Cole, Dr Vickie Driver, Dr. Julia Ju and Dr. K. Dev Verma
  
  5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  
  Q&A and Closing Remarks
  
  Speaker: Dr. Vickie Driver

Speakers

- Who Will Be Speaking?
  Program Chair
  
  Dr Vickie R. Driver
  
  Keynote Speaker
  
  TBD
  
  Speakers / Panelists
  
  Dr David Alper
  
  Dr Oscar Alvarez
  
  Dr Marissa Carter
  
  Donna Cartwright
  
  Dr Cynthia Chang
  
  Dr Yu-Chieh Chiu
  
  Dr Windy Cole
  
  Karen Cross
  
  Dr Holly Franzen-Korzendorfer
  
  Dr Caroline Fife
  
  Patty Ghikas
  
  Dr Sarah Griffiths
  
  Dr Beate Hanson
  
  Dr Maribel Henao
  
  Dr Teresa Jones
  
  Dr Julia Ju
  
  Dr. Dheerendra Kommala
  
  Dr Alisha Oropallo
  
  Joe Rolley
  
  Dr Rob Snyder
  
  Dr David Sommers
  
  Dr Bill Tettelbach
  
  Dr Marjana Tomic-Canic
  
  Dr K. Dev Verma
  
  Dr Lucian Vlad
  
  Howard Walthall
  
  Dr Emma Wright