SKINT proudly announces that Prof. Beeckman is now the new EWMA PRESIDENT!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Great work SKINT research group! The team contributed to the 2025 EWMA (European Wound Management Association) Conference in Barcelona with more than 14 presentations. From keynote sessions to debates, oral and e-poster sessions. The topics varied from Clinical Reasoning to Nutrition in WoundCare, to Pragmatic Trials, Pressure Ulcer prevention in Spinal Cord Injured patients, to hashtag MARSI, and tips for conducting Quality Improvement Programs in local institutions. EXCELLENCE in EDUCATION!
Dimitri Beeckman, Steven Smet, Knærke Søgaard (Knaerke Soegaard), Anika Fourie, Tim Torsy
Dimitri was the keynote speaker at the 18th National and 6th International Congress of the Wound and Tissue Repair Society, alongside the 10th International Symposium of King’s College Hospital London on Multidisciplinary Care and Surgical Reconstruction of Diabetic Foot, held from November 14 to 17, 2024, in Antalya, Turkey.
He shared insights on the latest advancements in skin tear research and represented the European Wound Management Association as the incoming president.
The Skin Integrity Research Group is privileged to have Dimitri as an inspirational leader!
We are proud to congratulate our SKINT colleague, Julie Deprez (PhD student at the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University), and Nils Ohde (PhD student at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin), for jointly winning the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP2024) conference in Lausanne, Switzerland!
This systematic review identified prognostic risk factors for the development of Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis (IAD).
Many congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Raepsaet on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Caring for Patients at Increased Risk for Skin Frailty: Prospects for Developing and Testing New Interventions in a Clinical Context”.
Her research focused on various populations at risk of and suffering from wounds, using different methods to study interventions, their economic aspects, technology requirements, and trial outcomes.
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Dimitri Beeckman. Co-Supervisor: Prof. dr. Amit Gefen