Programme

EPUAP MASTERCLASS will guide you through the experience and care in the world of pressure ulcers with innovation and sensitivity. The lecture Clinical Innovations in Pressure Ulcer Treatment will introduce you to novel and most recent approaches to pressure ulcer treatment.
Our secret to innovation is focusing on achieving patient well-being quickly and steadily. Healing pressure ulcers creates a new world of optimism for the whole family and caregivers. The empathetic approach is the keyword for every shared step, from prevention to treatment of pressure ulcers at any age.
There are things you can actively do to make the innovation happen or at least increase the chances of successful wound healing. EPUAP encourages technology input as a work in progress with careful attention to evaluating how research and the clinic go hand in hand in creating a better quality of life.

Andrea Pokorná is a Full Professor of Nursing at Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine in the Czech Republic. She is the vice dean for non-medical study programmes and information technology. She is a vice-chairman of the Association of University Educators of Non-Medical Health Professions in the Czech Republic (bringing together 24 higher education institutions). She is also closely collaborating with the Ministry of Health to support the academic education of allied healthcare professionals with a special focus on Pressure ulcer prevention and treatment.
Her research activities are focused mostly on Nursing education and its determiners, Quality of care and Adverse events, Patient Safety, Missed Nursing Care and wound care, with special attention to Pressure ulcers. She has been elected the president of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (for 2023-2025). She serves as Scientific Recorder of EWMA (2023-2025). She is an author and co-author of over 100 indexed publications with over 800 citations.

Guido Ciprandi graduated from University of Rome La Sapienza (UR1) in 1982, appointed Specialist in Thoracic Surgery in 1987, Specialist in Pediatric Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata (UR2) in 1992. His training in General and Thoracic surgery was done at the Clinics for General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery of UR1 and UR2, and in Pediatric Surgery at the Bambino Gesu’ Children’s Hospital, in Rome. He spent the next years between the Microvascular Clinics of Saint Joseph Hospital in Paris (PhD in microsurgery), Children’s Hospital in Boston (Fetal Tissue Research Program) and La Timone Hospital “des Enfants Malades” in Marseille (Laringotracheal Surgery and reconstruction, Lab models for Airways healing in NZWR). In 2001, he became responsible for the Experimental Laboratory Research Center in Palidoro, at Bambino Gesu’ Children’s Hospital. In 2012 he was appointed Managing Director for Pressure Ulcer and Complex Lesions Project in the Unit of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery, Bambino Gesu’ Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Dr. Ciprandi is member of national and international organizations, including the European Pediatric Surgical Association, Italian Association for Pediatric Surgery, European Wound Management Association. He is also Trustee in European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, Executive member in WUWHS, and Founding President of the International Society for Pediatric Wound Care (ISPeW). Dr. Ciprandi has contributed extensively in the various fields of Pediatric Surgery, including Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Thoracic and Tracheal Surgery, Oncological Surgery, Microvascular surgery, Fetal Surgery, Pediatric Wound Care, Neonatal and Pediatric Complex Wounds , NPWT in Pediatric patients, Skin Bioengineering. Among his clinical research efforts are studies concerning Hirschsprung Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Wilms’ Tumor, Neuroblastoma, Pressure Ulcers, Neonatal Ulcers, Medical Device Related Injuries.

Additionally, Dr. Ciprandi has influenced his field through educational activities. He is Professor of Wound Care at the Universities of Rome, Pavia, Turin, Trieste and Pisa. In 2018 he’s been awarded for a “Good Quality Project on Pressure Injuries Prevention” and in the same year he organised the EPUAP Annual Conference as a Chair in Rome. In 2019 he’s taken over as Clinical and Scientific Director of the Pediatric Burn Centre Project in Rome. He is also a frequent Invited Lecturer and Visiting Professor throughout the world and Author of more than 250 scientific publications, and edited books on Anatomy, Surgery and Wound Care.