Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD FACS, Founder and Medical Director of the Penn North Centers for Advanced Wound Care is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of William and Mary and Penn State Medical School.

He completed his residency in Surgery at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with fellowship training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Southern Illinois University. He is a professor at Gannon University in Erie Pennsylvania where he has established a state-of-the-art research program and developed an acute wound-healing model.

To date he has opened and operates ten wound care centers in Northwestern Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York. In 2005 he will establish three hyperbaric medicine centers. Dr. Serena has been the lead or Principal investigator in over 20 clinical trials, including testing blood platelets, topical and parenteral antibiotics and bi-layered cell therapy. As a result of the overwhelming demand for his services as a research scientist, he founded the NewBridge Medical Research Corporation.

He is recognized internationally as an expert in the field of wound healing: he has published more than 40 papers and nearly 100 presentations through out the world. In 2003 he was elected to the board of directors of The Wound Healing Society, the leading scientific society dedicated to wound healing. He is now co-chair of the Clinical Trials course for the Wound Healing Society.

Dr. Serena's curriculum vitae is available in PDF format. In order to view this file you will need to have the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. View the curriculum vitae.


Serena Consulting

I am frequently asked to lecture on wound healing related topics. In fact, I’ve given nearly 100 presentations through out the World. I also belong to several speakers’ bureaus, which I have listed below.

Here is a small sample of some lecture topics,

• Advances in Wound Healing.
• Clinical Research in Wound Care: All My Trials and Tribulations
• The Use of Topical Growth Factors in Wound Healing.
• Bi-layered cell therapy: From the lab bench to the bedside.
• The Vascular Evaluation of the Diabetic Foot.
• Advances in Limb Salvage in the Diabetic Population
• Silver: The greatest new antimicrobial.
• Aches and Pains in the Pipes and Drains: What wound care centers need to know about venous and arterial disease.
• Antimicrobial use in Wound Care: The Controversy over Culture Results.
  

Current Speakers bureaus:

• Johnson & Johnson Wound Management Worldwide
• Organogenesis
• Otsuka Pharmaceuticals