EDITORIAL

AS we move towards the close of another year it is time to reflect upon
2004 and look forward to 2005. Undoubtedly the main story of 2004 was
the success of the 2nd World Union of Wound Healing Societies meeting
held in July. With over 5000 delegates and a large commercial exhibition this
six day conference exceeded all expectations and congratulations are due to
Luc Téot and the entire organizing team. A selection of pressure ulcer related
abstracts from the Paris conference are reproduced in this issue of the EPUAP
Review. There are now four years to go until the Third Meeting of the World
Union to be held in Toronto in 2008. It is probably unlikely that EPUAP will be
a co-host of this event however we will be working to help make Toronto a success
and anticipate considerable activity in the next year as the initial plans for
the meeting develop.

For EPUAP in 2005 the main event will be our Open Meeting – the 8th held
by the organization. It seems like only yesterday when the first Open Meeting
was held in Oxford – how time flies as the new organization grew rapidly. That
EPUAP is now a mature society will be recorded early in 2005 by the publication
of a new book dedicated to pressure ulcers written by EPUAP Trustees and colleagues.
Keep looking at the web-site and reading this publication for further
details of this new title for 2005.

Back to the Open Meeting for 2005; this will be held in Aberdeen on the east
coast of Scotland. Further details of this event (May 5–7) are included in this
issue of the Review and we hope that this meeting will be as successful as our
most recent previous gatherings in Tampere and Budapest. As a native of Aberdeen
I am particularly happy to see our meeting visit my home city and know
that you will receive a warm welcome from the city and its people. You may want
to think about arriving in Aberdeen a day earlier than the start of the EPUAP
conference – the UK Tissue Viability Society have agreed to hold their annual
conference the day before the opening of the EPUAP Open Meeting in the same
venue. So join with our colleagues in the UK on 4th May 2005 to mark this collaboration
between EPUAP and a strong national organization. See you in the
Granite City in early Spring!

Michael Clark
Editor