Summit - Wound Care Collaborative Community

May 2, 2025 | Grapevine, TX

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This May, co-located with SAWC Spring | WHS, the Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) will host its second invite-only event, the Wound Care Collaborative Community Driving Innovation Summit, bringing together thought leaders from the WCCC, FDA, and CMS along with key opinion leaders, researchers, and representatives from industry, health systems, and payers to evaluate the barriers to wound care innovation and learn how we can overcome those barriers together. Our goal is to foster the development and availability of innovative and effective wound-healing therapies to drive advancement and outcomes.

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AGENDA

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration and Light Breakfast

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Opening Remarks: Coming Together as a Community
Speaker: Dr. Vickie R. Driver, Chair Board of Directors

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Keynote Address
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Tarver, Center Director, FDA CDRH

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Keynote Address Q&A
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Tarver

9:30 AM – 10:40 AM
Overview and Update of Current WCC Projects

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Natural History Project (RWE)
Speakers: Dr. Luc Vlad & Dr. Caroline Fife

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
Diagnostics: Tools for Wound Healing
Speakers: Dr. Alisha Oropallo & Dr. Holly Kovzendorfer

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM
Improving Clinical Trial Design and Reporting
Speakers: Dr. Marissa Carter & Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic

10:40 AM – 10:55 AM
Break

10:55 AM – 11:40 AM
Panel Discussion and Q&A: Wound Care Projects and Subject Matter Experts
Chair: Dr. Alisha Oropallo
Panel: Dr. Bill Ennis, Dr. Bill Tettelbach, Emma Wright, Cynthia Chang FDA CDRH, and Dr. K. Dev Verma-FDA CDER, Dr Oscar Alvarez

11:40 AM – 11:55 AM
Enhancing Patient Care Through Advanced Wound Care and Dressing Standards: Intro and Update
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Griffiths

11:55 AM – 12:10 PM
Defining Standard of Care: Intro and Update
Speaker: Dr. Maribel Henao

12:10 PM – 12:25 PM
Recommendations for Chronic Wounds: FDA Guidance Update on Clinical Trial Design
Speakers: Dr. Windy Cole & Dr. Mitch Sanders

12:25 PM – 12:45 PM
New Initiatives: ICD-10 DFU and 10-Year DFU Wound Registry
Speakers: Donna Cartwright & Dr. Vickie Driver

12:45 PM – 1:20 PM
Lunch

1:20 PM – 2:20 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A: Current Projects and Forward-Thinking Topics in Wound Management
Chair: Dr. Windy Cole
Panel: Dr. Bill Ennis, Dr. Bill Tettelbach, Emma Wright, Cynthia Chang FDA CDRH and Dr. K. Dev Verma-FDA CDER, Dr. Dheeredra Kommala

2:20 PM – 2:50 PM
AI, Should We Plan and What Do We Know
Speakers: Patrick Chang, Karen Cross, Dr. Beate Hanson

2:50 PM – 3:20 PM
Decentralized Clinical Trials and Remote Patient Monitoring
Speakers: Dr. Rob Snyder, Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr.Emma Wright

3:20 PM – 3:50 PM
Health Equity
Speakers: Dr. Yu-Chieh Chiu -FDA CDRH, Dr. Caroline Fife, USWR, Dr. David Alper ADA

3:50 PM – 4:00 PM
Break

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Engagement with FDA, NIH, and WCCC for Start-Up Companies
Co-Chairs: Joe Rolley & Dr. Vickie Driver
Panel: Dr. K. Dev Verma-FDA CDER, Dr. Yu-Chieh Chiu -FDA CDRH, Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic, Dr. Marissa Carter, Howard Walthall, Dr Teresa Jones, CMS member?

4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Supporting Innovation: Round Table Discussion with FDA and CMS
Co-Chairs: Howard Walthall & Joe Rolley
Panel: Ms. Syrek-Jensen- CMS, Dr. Cynthia Chang, Dr. Dheerendra Kommala, Beate Hanson, Dr. Windy Cole, Dr Vickie Driver

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Q&A and Closing Remarks
Speaker: Dr. Vickie Driver

SPEAKERS

Program Chair

Dr. Vickie R. Driver

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Michelle Tarver

Speakers / Panelists

Dr. David Alper

Dr. Oscar Alvarez

Dr. Marissa Carter

Donna Cartwright

Dr. Cynthia Chang

Dr. Yu-Chieh Chiu

Dr. Windy Cole

Karen Cross

Dr. Caroline Fife

Dr. Sarah Griffiths

Dr. Beate Hanson

Dr. Maribel Henao

Dr. Teresa Jones

Dr. Julia Ju

Dr. Dheerendra Kommala

Dr. Holly Franzen-Korzendorfer

Dr. Alisha Oropallo

Joseph Rolley

Dr. Rob Snyder

Dr. David Sommers

Dr. Bill Tettelbach

Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic

Dr. K. Dev Verma

Dr. Lucian Vlad

Howard Walthall

Dr. Emma Wright

About the Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC)

The Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) is an FDA-approved and recognized Collaborative Community focused on stimulating wound care innovation to improve product safety and patient access to cutting-edge medical technology while reducing cost and time to market. The WCCC acts as a focal point for collaboration between various segments of the wound care community and works closely together with the FDA and CMS on medical device, drug, and biologic challenges to achieve common objectives and outcomes that are squarely focused on removing the barriers to innovation for patients.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WCCC

Previous 2024 Summit | Orlando, FL

In 2024, the WCCC hosted the inaugural Driving Innovation in Wound Care Summit held in conjunction with the SAWC Spring/WHS 2024 conference in Orlando, Florida. The Summit was an all-day event that took place on May 13, 2024.

The Summit brought together senior representatives from the WCCC, FDA, and CMS along with leading clinicians and researchers, and representatives from industry, health systems, and payers to work to evaluate the barriers to wound care innovation and learn how we can overcome those barriers together. WCCC, FDA, and CMS shared the progress on their current initiatives, focusing on how to leverage what has been done so far and planning for what needs to be done next.