by Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
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Thomas E. Serena
MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Dr. Thomas E. Serena, 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 established a state-of-the-art research program including development of a novel acute wound-healing model.
Dr. Serena operates 14 wound care centers from New York City to Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been the lead or principal investigator in more than 45 clinical trials, including testing blood platelets, antimicrobial dressings, growth factors, topical and parenteral antibiotics and bilayered cell therapy. He founded the NewBridge Medical Research Corporation, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing the science of wound healing, which has received funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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September 6th, 2018
July 24th, 2018
by Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"This is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl."
—Bob Newhart show
June 13th, 2018
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
In the words of Ben Franklin, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” The specialty of wound care and hyperbaric medicine faces a never-ending attack from payers and regulators. Our current state of...
April 12th, 2018
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Editor's note:This blog post is part of the WoundSource Trending Topics series, bringing you insight into the latest clinical issues and advancement...
August 22nd, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
A recent article by Kaiser Health News misquoted me as saying that we enroll only "healthy" patients in our clinical trials. At moments like this, one feels that something has been overlooked. One of my research coordinators, recalling...
May 3rd, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Wound care Facebook friends from across the globe posted reports of their experiences at the Spring Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) meeting in San Diego. Social media pronounced the meeting a huge success in hundreds of...
March 23rd, 2017
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
In 1950, J. Edgar Hoover published the first edition of the FBI’s most wanted list. Since that time, no less than 512 fugitives have been featured. Many surrendered after learning that their mug shots were hanging on every post office...
August 29th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"Oh, keep the dog far hence that's friend to man."
-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
August 15th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership."...
July 29th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"Please don't bury me down in that cold, cold ground. I'd rather have them cut me up and pass me all around"
-John Prine
April 7th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
This blog comes to you written from the deck of the Independence of the Seas on the 2016 Wound Cruise. The conference on the ocean draws the best speakers in the world for obvious reasons. But like many educational events, some of the...
March 17th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
February 10th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"The average isn't average because its average. The average is average because its best." – J.B.S. Haldane
January 28th, 2016
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
An ancient Irish tradition dating back to St. Patrick permitted women to propose marriage to men on the additional day added during a leap year. The gender equality of modern society has turned this tradition into mere folklore, but it...
November 20th, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get"
-Warren Buffet1
Lawrence Mills introduced the concept of Value Analysis to the manufacturing industry a half century ago. The basic...
September 10th, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
During the 2010 presidential campaign, Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, quipped during a debate that then presidential candidate Obama's health care reform contained within it "death panels": bureaucrats with limited or no...
April 23rd, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
The Emperor's New Clothes was one of my favorite childhood stories. In this Hans Christian Anderson tale, two weavers clothe the emperor in what today would be referred to as "virtual finery." All of his ministers, advisers, factotums...
April 8th, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
February 19th, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Pete Seeger died a year ago last January at the age of 94. Reading a tribute to the folk singer, I ran across his most memorable tune, "Where have all the flowers gone?" I have long enjoyed the numerous versions of this folk song...
March 7th, 2014
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
January 7th, 2014
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Resting peacefully by the fire, eggnog in hand, wearied from stringing lights and eleventh-hour shopping, I settled in for the evening. My eyes lazily perused the laptop screen when the news bulletin shattered my serenity. The Centers...
April 19th, 2013
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Parents of most children growing up in the sixties read them Winnie the Pooh. My father, a Woodrow Wilson fellow in English literature, read us Homer’s Odyssey, four times. I remember listening with excitement and...
March 31st, 2013
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Ben Franklin
February 27th, 2013
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
February 22nd, 2012
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
"Would you like that super-sized?" is a phrase made popular by the fast food giant McDonald’s. The McDonald’s marketing geniuses tapped into a sentiment that permeates the American psyche. We are convinced that bigger is better; that...
October 17th, 2011
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
September 14th, 2011
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
April 8th, 2011
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
I owe my humble thanks to GK Chesterton, the Christian apologist, for the title of this blog. In Chesterton’s book of the same title he observes that men have a strong tendency to cling to a deeply held belief despite overwhelming...