Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, MAPWCA

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA From the third floor patio of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club (FCC), the evening breeze is a welcome respite from the sweltering heat of Phnom Penh’s ho...

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Fans of folk singer John Prine will recognize the homey lyrics describing his views on organ donation. Sitting at my desk a few weeks ago with John Prine...

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 speaker...

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Puccini's opera Turandot at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. In my favorite scene, young prince Calef comes...

By Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS Conceived in the operating theater and born in the home, surgical site infections (SSIs) reach maturity in the outpatient wound clinic. The woundologist, whether surgi...

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 ...

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 wo...

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA In 1972, Stephen J. Gould, the renowned paleontologist and masterful essayist, published the theory of punctuated equilibrium in which he challenged the ...