01/13/2026
2025 UHMS Northeast Chapter Town Hall on Wound Care
Enduring Material Now Available
(Originally hosted October 11, 2025)
Register here: https://www.courses-uhms.org/courses/chapter-town-hall-meetings/product/137-2025-uhms-northeast-chapter-town-hall-on-wound-care-v2.html
Schedule:
• Management of the Insensitive Limb: The Carville Approach - Lou Iannuzzi, PT, DPT, C.Ped
• Hyperbaric and Wound Care Approach to the Cancer Patient: Would You or Wouldn't You Treat? - Sandra Wainwright, MD, FUHM
• Management of Venous Leg Ulcers - Mikel Sadek, MD, FACS
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Wound Care - Zachary Gaskill, DO
• A Gut Reaction: Navigating The Diagnosis in Pelvic Radiation Sequelae - Nituna Phillips, CHT
• Creepy Crawly Critters: Maggots, Leeches, and Wound Care - Kelly Johnson-Arbor, MD
• Missed diagnosis: Nonhealing ulcer which turned out to be angiosarcoma - Leena Hani, MD, MPH
• Total Contact Casting for Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Partial Foot Amputations - Garrett Ruff, BS
• Hydroxyurea Ulcers - Paige Curcio, BS
Lecture Descriptions and Objectives:
1. Total Contact Casting (TCC) remains the gold standard of care for limb threatening neuropathic ulcerations, It’s effectiveness is unparalleled, it will serve as the initial intervention standard to resolve diabetic foot ulcerations before hospitalization, antibiotic therapy, or surgery. When applied at initial insult, the TCC works 99% of the time to heal ulcers expediently, cost efficiently, and without the need for costly adjunct dressings, potions, grafting, or surgery. TCC needs curriculum based training in medical, podiatry, nursing, and physical therapy medical education curriculums, seminar based training modules, and national sponsorship.
If the most current literature supports the efficacy of TCC intervention and has designated it as the gold standard of care, while most clinicians are not using TCC, are we practicing substandard care? The rising incidence of lower extremity amputations related to diabetic foot ulcers suggests we are practicing less than the gold standard.
2. Review wound care techniques for managing a wound that is from cancer. There is also a review of current cancer treatment modalities, nutrition, and cases to discuss.
3. Overview of management of venous leg ulcers from a vascular surgeon’s perspective to include management of venous leg ulcers, review of venous leg ulcer guidelines, and indications for superficial and deep venous treatments.
4. Overview of cutaneous presentations of IBD followed by condensed review of pathophysiology impacting fibrosis in wound healing and pertinent treatment considerations.
5. Present a case-based exploration of a patient with radiation-induced soft tissue necrosis of the terminal ileum following chemoradiation therapy for a**l carcinoma. Through a clinical timeline, attendees will examine diagnostic challenges, differentiation from Crohn’s disease, and the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in promoting tissue repair and improving quality of life.
6. Discuss the physiology, dosing and administration, indications, and complications of medicinal maggot and leech therapy. Since many wound care physicians and clinicians do not use medicinal maggots or leeches on a regular basis and thus do not know details about their physiology, use, and complications, this talk serves to provide a basic and introductory background on these FDA-regulated medical therapies for medical professionals.
7. This is a case description of a 74-year-old female who presented for a chronic non-healing ulcer in the left lower extremity that was being managed by dermatology with local wound care and antibiotics. Given no improvement in her symptoms after 8-9 months, she was then referred to wound care clinic where a biopsy was performed which revealed cutaneous angiosarcoma extending with extension to the base. She was then referred to surgical oncology for further work-up and treatment.
8. This lecture reports demographics and clinical outcomes in patients with prior partial foot amputations suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, finding that, with total contact casting (TCC), patients can expect high rates of ulcer healing and low rates of need for revision amputation, although many patients will re-ulcerate and require repeat trials of TCC.
9. I will describe the pathophysiology behind hydroxyurea-associated ulcers. In addition, I will discuss how to recognize the clinical presentation and share a case study that demonstrates this pathology. Finally, I will explore treatment strategies and wound care considerations for patients with hydroxyurea ulcers.
Registration:
Non-Member: $90
Regular UHMS Member: $70.00
Associate UHMS Member: $50.00
Accreditation Statement: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statements:
Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing/RRT Contact Hours: Approved for 4.00 contact hours. Wound Care Education Partners is a Florida based company and a licensed CE Provider through the Florida State Board of Nursing and the CE is reciprocal for nurses in the United States. Florida nursing credits are reciprocal and approved for nurses within all states.
NBDHMT: Not recognized within their scope for CE credit.
CME For MOC Program Guide Designation Statements for ABMS Boards:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) Continuing Certification Program (CCP); and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Surgery (ABS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
-4 MOC points in the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
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Schedule:Management of the Insensitive Limb: The Carville Approach - Lou Iannuzzi, PT, DPT, C.PedHyperbaric and Wound Care Approach to the Cancer Patient: Would You or Wouldn't You Treat? - Sandra Wainwright, MD, FUHMManagement of Venous Leg Ulcers - Mikel Sadek, MD, FACSInflammatory Bowel Disease a...
