NPUAP 2019 Annual Conference

Kath Bogie
Senior Research Scientist
Cleveland VA Medical Center


Dr. Bogie is a biomedical engineer committed to pursuing patient-centered translational research. Dr. Bogie currently holds appointments as Associate Professor in the Dept of Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and as Senior Research Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she is also Director of Health Maintenance and Monitoring within the Advanced Platform Technology Center. Dr. Bogie received her D.Phil in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford and then worked at the National Spinal Cord Injuries Centre (NSIC), Aylesbury, England where she established a Wheelchair Seating Clinic for individuals with spinal cord injury. The multivariate quantitative non-invasive tissue health evaluation tool she developed there has since been applied in multiple clinical studies. Dr. Bogie’s lab works on primary and secondary prevention of chronic wounds through novel clinically –focused approaches. The overarching goal is to reduce the fear of developing a chronic non-healing wound. Dr. Bogie has received continuous support for her research program for over 17 years, including funding from the DoD Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Service and the Craig H Neilsen Foundation. Translational clinical research includes studies to determine why some people experience a continuous cycle of pressure injuries while others remain pressure injury free, looking at both biomarkers and bioinformatics, complemented with smart technology development to address these issues. Dr. Bogie has been recognized internationally as an expert in research areas related to wound care, serves on the Board of the Wound Healing Society and is a member of the RESNA Standards Committee on Wheelchair and Related Seating, Dr. Bogie hold 2 patents for wound healing technology, has published over 60 papers and book chapters and given multiple national and international presentations.

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