NPUAP 2019 Annual Conference

Speakers

David Brienza

David Brienza
Professor
University of Pittsburgh


David Brienza is Professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with additional appointments in the Dept. of Bioengineering and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He is Associate Dean for Research in the School. He is trained as an engineer and has considerable additional experience conducting clinical and preclinical research. Over the past 25 years, his research has been funded through grants from NIH, NIDILRR and other private foundations, industry and VA sources. The majority of this work has been focused on tissue integrity management. He has been an active member of the pressure injury community. He was first elected to the Board of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Board (NPUAP) in 2001 and served for 4 terms. He is a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (AIMBE) and the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Association of North America (RESNA).

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