EWMA research grants supported by Convatec
Grant receivers
EWMA is pleased to announce the following three winners of the EWMA Grants supported by Convatec in 2021. We look forward to following these exiting projects.
Magdalena Antoszewska, MD
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology,
Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
Early career applicant
Category: E-health and digital solutions for wound management
Project title: Bioimpedance Sensor Array for Monitoring of hard-to-heal wounds
Anne M. Eskes, RN PhD
Principal investigator and principal nurse educator,
Department of Surgery
Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Senior career applicant
Category: Solutions to enhance patient safety and compliance in wound management
Project title: Patients’ ability to self-manage their surgical wound to prevent wound complications: a multinational comparative survey
Duygu Sezgin, PhD, MSc (Public Health Nursing), RGN
Lecturer, Wound Healing and Tissue Repair Master's Programme Director
School of Nursing and Midwifery
College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
National University of Ireland Galway
Early career applicant
Category: Open
Project title: UNderstanding Frailty and pre-frailty to improve the management of chronic wounds in OLDer people (UNFOLD)
About the grant
In 2021 EWMA and Convatec partnered to support three grants available to healthcare professionals. The goal of this initiative is to support the use of new technologies in wound management and/or good communication and safety in clinical practice.
Proposed projects should be focused on the use of technologies in woundcare and/or novel approaches to meeting the needs of patients.
Applications were invited from early and senior career researchers on the following subjects:
E-health and digital solutions for wound management
Solutions to enhance patient safety and compliance in wound management
Open topic: Any other topic relevant to wound management