EUROPEAN PRESSURE ULCER ADVISORY PANEL

Zena Moore
Zena Moore from Dublin has been working in wound management since 1990 and was originally involved in the management of traumatic wounds, gradually expanding into management of both acute and chronic wounds. In 1999, following completion of the post graduate diploma in wound healing and tissue repair from the University of Wales College of Medicine, she was appointed the first Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Republic of Ireland at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital incorporating the national Children’s Hospital, Tallaght Dublin 24. Currently she is undertaking an MSc in wound healing and tissue repair through the University of Wales, College of Medicine and her research interest is nurses’ attitudes and behaviours towards pressure sore prevention.

One of her main interests is to raise the profile of and standardise wound management and pressure sore prevention in Ireland. To this end she would like to see  European Guidelines on wound management and pressure ulcer prevention integrated into clinical practice in  Ireland.

Elaine Pina
Elaine Pina, Clinical Microbiologist, obtained her MD from the University of Lisbon, with a speciality in Clinical Pathology and sub-specialty in Clinical Microbiology.

She is a Consultant Microbiologist, Subgrupo Hospitalar Capuchos/Desterro and co-ordinator of the Pressure Ulcer and Leg Ulcer programmes. She is a member of the Portuguese Association of Wound Management, Co-ordinator of the Pressure Ulcer Working Group. She is also President of the National Association of Hospital Sterilization and a Past President of the Portuguese Association of Infection Control.

Publications and presentations, mostly at a national level related to infection control, including the Handbook for Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers and Guidelines for Ambulatory Care of leg Ulcers.

Her special interests are: hand hygiene; surgical wound infection; microbiology of chronic wounds; and topical use of antimicrobials.