COMFEEL LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
Comfeel Literary Awards recognise outstanding authorship and contribution to the AWMA Journal Wound Practice and Research (Formerly Primary Intention). For consideration in the Comfeel Literary Award the author must be a memebr of AWMA

The Comfeel Literary Awards for 2007 were awarded at the Darwin AWMA Conference in May. Each primary author of the winning article in the 3 categories received a $1,000 cheque and a certificate. The standards were very high and the winners have truly excelled with their work.

The winners are:

1. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE - Gill Lewin: “Skin safe. Implementing clinical guidelines to prevent pressure ulcers in home care clients” Co-authors were Carville K, Newall N, Phillipson M, Smith J and Prentice J.

2. LITERATURE REVIEW/CLINIC PRACTICE - Jan Rice: “Unusual leg ulcers: a global phenomenon”

3. CASE STUDY - Samantha Cook: “Headlice: a precursor to group A Streptococcal infection in remote indigenous children”

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to Coloplast for their ongoing support for these highly regarded awards.

Australian Wound experts recognised with AWMA Fellow Awards

Four AWMA Fellowships were awarded at the 7th AWMA Conference in Darwin NT on 8 May 2008.
The awards to Sandra D Dean, Professor Donald MacLellan, Nancy Magzinovic and Professor Michael Stacey recognise their outstanding service to AWMA and a significant contrbution to wound management in Australia and/or the Asia pacific region.
Congratulations, this honour and recognition is well- deserved by each of these great contributors to AWMA and to wound management in our region.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008
PAUL HARTMANN / AWMA scholarships!

The second PAUL HARTMANN / AWMA Advanced Wound Care Course scholarships were recently awarded at the 7th National AWMA conference in Darwin, on Friday 9th May 2008.

Applications for the scholarships were received from around Australia. The Judging Panel was impressed with the standard of entries and followed a rigorous assessment process in choosing the finalists.

PAUL HARTMANN and AWMA would like to congratulate the following winners:

Naomi Higgins
Goolwa Medical Centre, South Australia

Debbie Geard
Primary Health Services, Tasmania

Penelope Fenn-Smith
Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania

Heather Manton
ACT Health Continuing Care

Amy Freeman Podiatrist
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria

The winners will attend the HARTMANN sponsored HEMI Advanced Wound Care Course in 2009. The winning case studies will also be published in the upcoming issues of Wound Practice and Research (formerly Primary Intention).

7th National Australian Wound Management Association Conference
7-10 May, 2008
Darwin Entertainment Centre and Holiday Inn

Dreams, Diversity, Disasters

AWMA Conference at the Top End with the theme of
“Dreams, Diversity & Disasters” will focus on:
Traditional and scientific methods of wound management.
Influences of cultural diversity:
-Service provision.
-Compliance with treatment regimes.
Australia’s lead role in disaster induced wounds:
-Hospital health logistic

Stay tuned to this site for what is planned to be an informative and exciting program.