On this week’s episode of WOCTalk we sit down with Kimberly LeBlanc, PhD, RN, NSWOC, WOCC(C), IIWCC, to learn about her expertise and her experience leading up to her co-authored manuscript in the March/April issue of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing titled, Peristomal Medical Adhesive-Related Skin Injury, Results of an International Consensus Meeting. This is an open access article and can be found, by clicking here. Other co-authors for this manuscript include: Ian Whiteley, MNurs, NP, STN, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Laurie McNichol, MSN, RN, CNS, GNP, CWOCN, CWON-AP, FAAN, Cone Health, Greensboro, North Carolina. Ginger Salvadalena, PhD, RN, Clinical Affairs, Hollister Incorporated, Libertyville, Illinois. Mikel Gray, PhD, RN, FNP, PNP, CUNP, CCCN, FAANP, FAAN, School of Medicine (Department of Urology) and School of Nursing (Department of Acute and Specialty Practice), University of Virginia, Charlottesville. _______ Kimberly LeBlanc is the Academic Chair of the Wound Ostomy Continence Institute and a certified Wound Ostomy and Continence (WOCC(C)) Nurse working with KDS Professional Consulting. She is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Western Ontario Masters in Wound Care Program and a visiting lecturer at the McGill University School of Nursing and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine. Kimberly is the immediate past president of the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel, an international expert reviewer for the Joanna Briggs Institute in Australia and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Advances in Skin and Wound Care. She has lectured nationally and internationally and is considered an expert on ostomy, continence and wound related issues in the aging population. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and four book chapters. Her current area of research interest is skin health in the frail elderly.
On this week’s episode of WOCTalk we sit down with Kimberly LeBlanc, PhD, RN, NSWOC, WOCC(C), IIWCC, to learn about her expertise and her experience leading up to her co-authored manuscript in the March/April issue of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing titled, [Peristomal Medical Adhesive-Related Skin Injury, Results of an International Consensus Meeting](http://). This is an open access article and can be found, by clicking here.
Other co-authors for this manuscript include:
Ian Whiteley, MNurs, NP, STN, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Laurie McNichol, MSN, RN, CNS, GNP, CWOCN, CWON-AP, FAAN, Cone Health, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ginger Salvadalena, PhD, RN, Clinical Affairs, Hollister Incorporated, Libertyville, Illinois.
Mikel Gray, PhD, RN, FNP, PNP, CUNP, CCCN, FAANP, FAAN, School of Medicine (Department of Urology) and School of Nursing (Department of Acute and Specialty Practice), University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Kimberly LeBlanc is the Academic Chair of the Wound Ostomy Continence Institute and a certified Wound Ostomy and Continence (WOCC(C)) Nurse working with KDS Professional Consulting. She is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Western Ontario Masters in Wound Care Program and a visiting lecturer at the McGill University School of Nursing and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine.
Kimberly is the immediate past president of the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel, an international expert reviewer for the Joanna Briggs Institute in Australia and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Advances in Skin and Wound Care. She has lectured nationally and internationally and is considered an expert on ostomy, continence and wound related issues in the aging population. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and four
book chapters. Her current area of research interest is skin health in the frail elderly.