EPUAP 2025 Co-Chair
MD, EPUAP Trustee 2020
Working history:
2001-2008 As an assistance doctor: HUS – Porvoo Hospital (anesthesia), HUS- Lohja Hospital (ER), Emergency Medical Association (patient evacuations, mainly from abroad), HUS- Peijas Hospital,
City of Espoo/Espoo Health Center as GP, Kittilä Health Center as GP.
(HUS = Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa)
2008 –2019 City of Helsinki Health Center, GP
2014 –2019 part-time (50%) as a wound team doctor (multidisciplinary team treating wound patients in primary care setting), City of Helsinki Health Center
2-9/2019 wound department of communal geriatric hospital, Espoo Hospital, City of Espoo.
12/2019 – Communal home care unit, City of Järvenpää, Central Uusimaa Region as GP and junior doctor specializing in geriatrics
Positions of responsibilities:
Special competence in wound management – board member of the working group (Finnish Medical Association), 2016- , vice president 2019 –
Finnish Wound Care Society – board member, scientific and educational committee 2017-2019
National Group of Nordic Diabetic Foot – board member 2016-
HUS Wound Center – participant in several working groups of HUS Wound Center, 2017-2020
Finnish Medical Association, Trustee 2014-2018
Member of EWMA, EPUAP, Finnish Wound Care Society and Finnish Medical Association.
Email: kirsti.ahmajarvi@fimnet.fi
