Patricia (Trish) Idensohn
MSc. Clinical Skin Integrity and Wound Management (Herts)
International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course (Toronto)
Registered Nurse and Midwife (South Africa)
Independent wound consultant and wound specialist in private practice.
Director of Comp Consulting Limited, a skin and wound education company, United Kingdom.
Owner of CliniCare Medical Centre, Ballito, South Africa, providing interdisciplinary wound management in the clinic, hospital, sub-acute and home environments.
Owner of CliniCare mom+baby clinic providing childbirth education and preventative health care services.
Research collaborator with the Experimental Medicine Research Group, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa.
Currently, an elected committee member of the International Wound Infection Institute Committee (IWII) and was on the development team for the 2022 International Consensus Update: Wound Infection in clinical practice and is on the development team for the 2024 IWII Wound Cleansing document.
A panel group member of the development team for the 2025 International Pressure Injury guidelines: assessment, and dark skin tone groups.
International peer review panel for Wound Healing Advances and Management collaborative (WHAM), Curtin University, Australia.
Editorial board member of Wound Masterclass and the International Wound Journal.
Past regional and national president and honorary member of the Society of Private Nurse Practitioners (SPNP), South Africa.
Past honorary tutor Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Past African Director for the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP)
Past Principal Lecturer and Coordinator of the Wound Certification Course for the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Trish Idensohn combines her clinical practice experience, academia, and research to enhance patient care by empowering healthcare practitioners to “be the change” to improve patient outcomes.
Her areas of interest include:
• “all things wounds” encompassing the array of wound types including,
• the prevention and management of skin integrity concerns,
• wound infection,
• skin tones,
• the prevention and management of chronic / hard-to-heal wounds, and
• overcoming the holistic challenges wound management and wound care present.
Day 2 - 19th October 2024