More about the content presented at conference
Learn more about our four days of jam-packed learning and networking opportunities in multi-disciplinary setting. View the session details below and browse the agenda.
Session blocks
Returning at this year’s conference are session blocks organized by care settings that reflect the reality of frontline clinicians and administrators. Each block will focus on issues specific to that care setting and will address patient transition to other care settings.
Don’t miss the latest in research
Make the most of your experience at conference by exploring the most current research in the area of skin and wound care! We will be featuring oral poster presentations in lively, interactive sessions along with digital poster presentations on a wide variety of topics, including research, education, health policy and clinical practice.
We also offer many plenary sessions on the following topics:
- Keynote speaker: Canadian race car driver James Hinchcliffe will share his recovery story (after a serious crash) and the health-care team that helped, live November 17!
- Three things you need to know about nutrition and skin health with Anna Slivinski
- Moving wound care forward together: Broader and sooner with Doug Beemer, Connie Harris, David Keast and Michael Stacey
- Pressure injuries: They can happen to anyone with Peter Athanasopoulos and Karen Campbell
- The great debate: What is evidence? with Karen Campbell, Ranjani Somayaji, Nicola Waters and Kevin Woo
- Change over time: Moving new ideas into practice with Irfan Dhalla
- Industry as a partner in best practice with Doug Beemer, Connie Harris and Chester Ho
- Our special guests this year from the International Wound Infection Institute will be a presenting: Evan Call and David Keast
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Product Pickers
Updated Product Pickers
Set of Product Pickers – 8 ½” x 11” bi-fold brochure style dressing enablers that are the perfect combination of resources to help you in your wound dressing search and selection. To purchase a hard copy: click here
1. Wound Dressing Formulary: The Wound Dressing Formulary describes common wound dressings in generic categories and lists usage considerations. 
2. Dressing Selection Guide: The Wound Dressing Selection Guide helps users choose appropriate primary and secondary dressings based on common clinical situations and wound care goals. This enabler also gives users the opportunity to write in the brand names of products (next to the generic names) that are available to them in their workplaces making this guide even more useful! 
Wound Dressing Selection Guide
3. Product Picker to Control of Venous Leg Edema: This product picker guide helps users choose the appropriate compression system for the reduction of venous leg edema.
4. Product Picker Offloading: The latest addition to our family of product pickers, the Offloading Plantar Pressures in Diabetes guide helps users choose the most appropriate offloading device for patients with plantar diabetic foot ulcers based on the needs of the patient, their wound and environmental and system factors.
5. Product Picker Skin and Wound Clean-up: This product picker helps users choose appropriate skin and wound cleansers as well as irrigating solutions. It also gives users the opportunity to write in the brand names of products that are available to them in their workplaces making this guide even more useful! This enabler also assists users to select the most appropriate debridement product and/or treatment method based on selected parameters.
