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Ron Sherman, MD, MSc, DTM&H

Bagged and Free-Range: How Different Maggot Therapy Dressings Work

August 27, 2015
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H I have been avoiding the topic of addressing the differences between contained (bagged) versus confined (non-bagged or "free-range") maggot therapy because I haven't w...

Biosurgery: History and Current Status of Maggot Therapy in Wound Care

September 26, 2011
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H Although maggot therapy has been with us for nearly 100 years, many wound care specialists are still unfamiliar with it. Therefore, we should step back and briefly rev...

Biotherapy Treatment In Wound Care: What Exactly Is Biotherapy?

July 18, 2011
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H This being the first in a series of WoundSource blogs about biotherapies, it seems appropriate to use this opportunity to define the discipline of biotherapy. After a...

Common Obstacles on the Road to Maggot Debridement Therapy

June 23, 2017
By Ronald Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in a series of films called "On the Road" in which the duo traveled around the globe, facing a variety of amusing obstacles and mis...

Difficult Times Call for Creative Solutions: Biosurgery

June 4, 2020
Challenges are nothing new for those of us who work in health care. Every day, we triumph over difficult situations. Yet, the current coronavirus outbreak has complicated even the simplest of procedur...

Maggot Debridement Therapy in the United States

June 20, 2019
By Ronald A. Sherman, MD The year 2019 began with a shadow over the field of biosurgery and a dark cloud over American health care: BioMonde, currently the largest producer of medicinal maggots in ...

Maggot Therapy: How Does It Really Work?

December 8, 2011
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H As far back as 1930, clinicians and researchers had a pretty good understanding of what “the right kind of maggots” could do for a wound. Those maggots are now known g...

Want to Understand Your Wound Care Patient's Perspective? Just Ask!

June 4, 2015
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H Several months back, I suggested that we could better understand our patients' actions (for example, why patients do not adhere to their treatment plans) by looking at...

Weighing Wound Care Conference Speakers’ Qualifications Against Their Conflicts of Interest

August 21, 2016
By Ronald Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H I am seeing more and more expert lecturers being disqualified from speaking at wound care conferences, simply because their qualifications include significant posit...

What the Studies Say: Contained and Free-Range Maggot Therapy Delivery

December 17, 2015
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H In my previous post on maggot therapy, we discussed the differences between confinement and containment maggot therapy dressings. This post will examine the studies th...
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