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Annual Meeting

Preliminary Program

Sunday, May 14, 2006
8:00am - 4:00pm Pre-Meeting Workshop -
Getting Your Product Reimbursed,
Billing and Reimbursement,
How to Survive an OIG Audit
1:00 - 4:00pm Pre-Meeting Short Course - Principles of Wound Care 2006
An introductory and refresher course covering both the basics and the newest information, for students of wound healing (new and seasoned)
4:30 - 6:00pm Welcome Reception
Exhibit Hall Opening
POSTER SETUP
6:00 - 8:00pm Keynote Symposium -
TGen from a Research Perspective - Dietrich Stephan, PhD
Lactate: The Missing Link in the Healing Process - Thomas K. Hunt, MD
 
Monday, May 15, 2006
7:00 - 8:00am Continental Breakfast with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
8:00 - 9:30am General Session #1 - The Burn Wound: Basics to Clinic
Hypertrophic Scarring - Loren Engrav, MD
Making Sense of Hypertrophic Scar: A Role for Nerves - Nicole Gibran, MD
Tissue Engineering for Burn Wounds - Steven Boyce, PhD
9:30 - 10:30am Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
10:30am - 12:30pm Concurrent Sessions
#1 Acute Wound Healing / Clinical Trials
#2 Oxygen / Epithelialization
#3 Fibrosis / Scarring / Wound Healing Models
12:30 - 2:00pm Luncheon Symposium
Organogenesis
2:00 - 4:30pm General Session #2 - Young Investigators Symposium
It's All New: New Programs, New Investigators, and Electronic Submission

Richard Ikeda, PhD from the NIH, National Institute of General Medical Science
Young Investigator Award Competition (8 Abstracts)
4:30 - 5:00pm New Member Reception
4:30 - 6:30pm Poster Session #1 - BLUE RIBBON POSTERS and ODD NUMBERED POSTERS - authors present
Wine and Cheese Reception with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
6:30 Dinner on your own
 
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
7:00 - 8:00am Continental Breakfast with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
8:00 - 9:30am General Session #3 - The New Molecular Biology in the Clinic
Application of Genome-wide Expression Analysis to Human
Health and Disease - J. Perren Cobb, MD
Proteomics on a Chip - Daniel Remick, MD
9:30 - 9:45am Young Investigator Award Presentation
Blue Ribbon Poster Award Presentation
WHS Distinguished Service Award
9:45 - 10:15am Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
10:15am - 12:15pm Concurrent Sessions
#4 Chronic Wound Healing / Burn Wound Healing
#5 Angiogenesis
#6 Extracellular Matrix / Bioengineering
12:15 - 1:45pm Luncheon Symposium
TBA
1:45 - 2:15pm WHF Young Investigator Fellowship Award and Presentation
2006 Fellowship Recipient Award
2005 Fellowship Recipient Research Presentation - Traci Wilgus, PhD
2:15 - 3:45pm General Session #4 - Presidential Symposium on Aging
Angiogenesis in Aging: Location, Location, Location - May J. Reed, MD
Aging of the Skin and Organismic Aging - Karin Scharffetter-Kochanek, MD
Wound Healing in the Elderly: Clinical Pearls - Lisa Gould, MD PhD
3:45 - 4:45pm Annual Business Meeting
4:45 - 6:15pm Poster Session #2 - EVEN NUMBERED POSTERS - authors present
Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
6:30 - 9:00pm Social Event - Desert Botanical Gardens - Casual Dress
 
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
7:00 - 8:00am Continental Breakfast with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
8:00 - 9:30am Hands on Workshop
Clinical and Basic
9:30 - 10:00am Refreshment Break
10:00am - 11:30pm General Session #5 - New Technologies: Bioengineering
Fiber Optic Surface Plasmon Sensor for Quantifying Cytokines in Wound Fluid - Karl Booksh, PhD
Synthetic Extracellular Matrices for 3-D Tissue Engineering and Wound Repair - Glenn Prestwich, PhD
11:30 - 1:00pm Lunch on Your Own
1:00 - 2:30pm Concurrent Symposia
#1 Angiogenesis

Endothelial Cell Migration - Alan Wells, MD, DSc
Clinical Perspective - Vincent Li, MD

#2 Update from the Consensus Panels for the Treatment of Chronic Wounds
Martin Robson, MD - Chair and Panel Moderator
2:30 - 3:00pm Break
3:00 - 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions
#7 Gene Therapy / Biomaterials / Wound Therapies
#8 Wound Infection / Inflammation / Immune Response
#9 Stem Cells / Growth Factors
5:00pm MEETING ADJOURNMENT