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EWMA2008
LISBON
EWMA 2008
– a very successful conference
in Lisbon!
The EWMA 2008 conference was held 14-16 May
at Lisbon Congress Centre in Lisbon, Portugal. It
was organised in cooperation with the two Portuguese
wound management associations APTFeridas and
GAIF and the theme of the conference was:
Wound Mangement & Wound Healing
– Responsibility and Actions
The conference was attended by just over 2300 participants
mostly from all over Europe, but there were also
participants from as far away as Angola, Israel, Japan and
USA among others. In all 34 International speakers gave
presentations in 8 key sessions on topics such as, Malignant
Ulcers – Multidisciplinary Treatment, Measuring Infection
in Surgical Wounds, Immunosupression and Chronic Wounds
– Friend or Foe? among others.
EWMA received more than 600 abstracts of which 379
were accepted as poster presentations and 107 as free paper
presentations. These can now be downloaded from the
conference web site www.ewma.org/ewma2008. Other
activities include workshops on e.g. Paediatric Wound Care
and Decision Making for Patients with Complex Wound
Problems.
The first time presenter award was given to:
Hilde Fagervik-Morton, United Kingdom:
Qualitative responses to Pain Between Countries
The awards for best posters were given to:
Veronika Woskova, Czech Republic
The Neuropad: A Simple Test to Evaluate Diabetic Neuropathy
and Risk of Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Anna Marie Nielsen, Denmark
Methods for Evaluation of Bacterial Contamination as a
Result of Treatment with High Pressure Irrigation
Pedro Pacheco, Portugal
Compression Therapy in Treating Venous Ulcers in a Healthcare
Sub Region
EWMA
Javier Hernández Toledo, Spain
Clinical Evidence of Infection and its Correlation with the
Microbiological Diagnosis in Diabetic Foot Wounds
Poster Prizes given to Centres
This year the poster award committee decided to award
centres with poster prizes, as each centre has contributed
a number of high class posters across a range of topics,
involving a team of people. The following centres were
awarded poster prizes:
• University of Pisa, Italy
• University of Essen, Germany
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
All of EWMA’s 42 Cooperating Organisations met at the
Cooperating Organisations Board Meeting held on Thursday
15 May in Lisbon. This is one area where EWMA
continues to develop its activities in the collaboration with
wound healing and management associations across Europe.
Since this time last year, EWMA has welcomed the
Wound Management Association of Kosova (WMAK) and
the Slovak Association for Open Wounds Curing (SSOOR)
as Cooperating Organisations. In terms of networking
as well as direct access to contemporary knowledge and
scientific resource persons within wound management, the
Cooperating Organisations are crucial partners.
The work on education activities coordinated by the
Education Committee, chaired by Zena Moore, remains
central to EWMA. Many courses are built on the EWMA
Modules and endorsed by EWMA. Furthermore, we have
now seen that the EWMA UCM (University Conference
Model) piloted in Glasgow, this year in Lisbon, has developed
into a full programme where approximately 120
students from four European countries have studied part
of their curriculum during the Conference.
The EWMA 2008 Conference was a great opportunity
for colleagues and friends from all over Europe (and other
parts of the world) to meet. We look forward to our next
conference in Helsinki in May 2009.
www.ewma.org/ewma2009
Finn Gottrup, EWMA Recorder
EWMA Journal 2008 vol 8 no 3 47
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