CEO, Founder United Wound Healing

Ryan became interested in caring for patients as a Physician Assistant with the goal of extending the hands of physicians and providing care in underserved areas. His passion for sports as an NCAA athlete and Olympic hopeful made sports medicine a natural fit. In 2011, he was introduced to skilled nursing wound care and felt a unique calling to provide specialty care in an often-underserved area. The love for this work and increasing demand sparked the idea of starting United Wound Healing, and eventually his role as CEO led to full-time leadership and administration.

RestorixHealth

Called to heal in America and abroad. Wound care specialist, rural family physician, and global volunteer (15+ medical/surgical mission trips so far!) Bringing advanced wound management and empathic care to resource-poor locations and underserved patients.

Wound Care Experts

Dr. Wahab is a wound care specialist and serves as medical director for the Mountainview Wound care and Hyperbaric Center, the inpatient medical director for Dignity Health Hospitals in Las Vegas and for Post Acute Medical Hospital in Las Vegas, NV. She is an active member of many wound care organizations. She completed her tenure as a board member and treasurer for AAWC. She is a member of the European Wound Management Association and currently is a committee member for the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and participates in multiple education committees for wound healing. Dr. Wahab is passionate about research and has her own research department to conduct clinical trials for wound healing. Dr. Wahab participates on many medical advisory boards for wound care biotech innovations. She is faculty for Roseman University College of Medicine Nevada and part of the Internal Medicine GME program for Mountainview Hospital. Dr. Wahab utilizes a research-oriented multidisciplinary approach to foster a personalized environment for her patients by integrating new technological advancements in her patient centered wound therapy programs.

CEO, Open Wound Research

Zweli, a proficient healthcare management professional and seasoned entrepreneur with expertise in quantitative marketing and data science, embarked on his journey in wound care back in 2011. At that time, he joined forces with Wound Healing Solutions, a prominent post-acute wound-care consultancy in the nation, where he played a pivotal role in its development and eventually became a partner. The consultancy was successfully acquired in late 2022, and today, Zweli is the CEO of Open Wound Research, a venture he co-founded in the same year.

Engage Health Solutions

William O’Malley is a founding member of Engage Health and currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer. In his leadership role, William oversees a broad spectrum of governance, strategic, and tactical initiatives for Engage Health's national healthcare client portfolio. He is also responsible for cultivating and scaling a high-performance, multidisciplinary team of professionals within an intrapreneurial corporate culture.

SerenaGroup Inc and SerenaGroup Research Foundation

Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD FACS FACHM MAPWCA, Founder and Medical Director of The SerenaGroup®, a family of wound, hyperbaric and research companies, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of William and Mary and Penn State Medical School. He completed his residency in Surgery at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with additional year of training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Southern Illinois University. To date he has opened and operates wound care centers across the United Sates and globally.

Surgeon and Wound Physician

Dr Bohn is a General Surgeon Board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is also Board Certified in Hyperbaric Medicine and Certified in Wound Care. He is President of the American Board of Wound Healing overseeing certification of wound care providers. As a member of the American of Professional Wound Care Association, Dr Bohn has been recognized and honored with the designation of Masters level in wound care, MAPWCA.

Wound Care Plus

Martha Kelso is the CEO of one of the largest mobile wound care groups. She’s considered a visionary and entrepreneur in Post-Acute Care with a relentless mission to elevate the art and science of wound healing. As a published author, clinical editor for multiple peer-reviewed journals, an expert witness for wound litigation, and a member of several national advisory boards, she is a widely recognized award-winning industry expert working tirelessly to shape the future healthcare landscape.

Dr. Jeffrey Niezgoda is the Past President of the American Professional Wound Care Association and the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine. He is the Founder and President Emeritus of AZH Wound & Hyperbaric and the Center for Comprehensive Wound Care and HBOT, St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He is the current Chief Medical Officer for Kent Imaging, a medical device imaging company. Dr. Niezgoda is also the CMO of WebCME, an international educational company providing wound care and hyperbaric education, Auxillium Healthcare, focused on artificial intelligence in medical imaging and RxOS, a medical device company which produces a revolutionary wound care hydrogel.

Dr. William H. Tettelbach is Chief Medical Officer at RestorixHealth, overseeing more than 260 outpatient centers in hyperbaric medicine and wound care. Triple board-certified in Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Internal Medicine, he holds academic appointments at Duke University and Western University of Health Sciences. A former Program Director for Duke’s Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship, he also serves as President of APWCA, sits on the CMS Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, and contributes to policy through Noridian’s Contractor Advisory Committee. His career is defined by advancing education and improving outcomes in wound care, infectious disease, and hyperbaric medicine.

Wound Care Expert, Chief Executive Officer, Lecturer, and Author, WoundDevLab

Mitchell C. Sanders, PhD is a Serial Entrepreneur, C-Level Executive, and Scientist developing advanced wound care products for the past 30 years with 23 peer reviewed publications and 45 world-wide patents (Google Scholar citations, https://bit.ly/3otr4a3). Over the past 20 years Dr. Sanders has secured over $65M in strategic partnerships for new product development for his lab. Dr. Sanders was founder and CEO of ECI Biotech (1998-2016) and his company developed the first infection diagnostic for chronic wounds (Bacterial Status), sold by WoundChek Labs. Mitch later worked at Alira Health as CSO, Board Member, and Founder/CEO of two additional startups (WoundForce Inc., and Firefly Innovations, LLC) that he sold to Alira Health. In 2023, Dr. Sanders used a portion of his equity to buy his lab out of the CRO and is currently the owner and Chief Executive Officer of ProDevLabs LLC, a Premier Wound Care R&D and Preclinical CRO in Southborough MA. Dr. Sanders earned his undergraduate degree in Biology with a Minor in Latin Language and Literature from Boston University. He later received a MS and PhD in Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and then did two Postdocs at MIT/Whitehead Institute in Biochemistry and Host Pathogen Interactions. In his free time, Dr, Sanders is on the editorial board of Wound Master Class and the International Journal of Tissue Repair (IJTR). He is also an AALAS certified Laboratory Animal Technician and has 40 years of expertise in performing preclinical wound healing and surgical models at Boston University, ECI Biotech, Alira Health, UMASS Medical School, and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Mitch also writes paranormal/suspense books (www.climateofmonsters.com) with 5 Star ratings on Amazon.

Lower Extremity Foot & Ankle Surgeon at The Hospital University of Pennsylvania

Kari has dedicated her nursing career to wound care, a field she has been passionate about since the very beginning. In 2004, she began providing clinical education on wound prevention and treatment, alongside product sales support to long-term care (LTC) staff and Home Health. She has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and durable medical equipment (DME) sectors as a sales and clinical educator. Kari went on to become Board Certified in Wound Care through ABWM in 2009. Kari is the Owner and VP of Business and Clinical Development of HealWell Mobile Wound Care and Owner/President of Wound Wise Consulting, LLC

Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two-year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing in 1990, and the Memorial Hermann Center for Lymphedema Therapy in 1998. Since 2013, she has been a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, LLC, a Texas-based health information technology company which since 2000, has provided a specialty-specific electronic medical record system to wound and hyperbaric centers across the US. She is the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry which has developed a suite of CMS approved wound-care relevant quality measures to enable practitioners in the field to meet the requirements of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program. Past and present board activities include the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, the American Academy of Wound Management, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, the American Professional Wound Care Association, the Chronic Limb Ischemia (CLI) Global Society, and the ADA Amputation Prevention Alliance (APA). She is the clinical editor of Today’s Wound Clinic and has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks. Her research contributions include the development of real time lymphatic imaging with Dr. Eva Sevick using near infrared technology, and more recently, the use of real-world data for comparative effectiveness studies to understand what works best for patients with chronic wounds and ulcers.