Breakfast Symposium: Optimizing the Standard of Care for Diabetic Foot Ulcers. Robert Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., will address the evolution of DFU treatment and the subsequent formation of a new standard of care, for which Dermagraft is central, and how doctors can implement this standard in their practice. The event will be held on Friday, March 19, from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. in Studios D and E of the Hollywood Ballroom on the mezzanine level. Dr. Kirsner is a Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Director of the University of Miami/Cedars Wound Center. Hands-On Workshop: Wound Closure. Hosted by Lee C. Rogers, DPM, and Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, DPM, Associate Medical Directors of the Amputation Prevention Center at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., the workshop will be held Saturday, March 20, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Hollywood Ballroom Studio D. At the workshop, pieces of Dermagraft will be available for attendees to practice preparing and applying to a rubber foot ulcer wound. To date, nearly 200,000 pieces of Dermagraft have been supplied to over 1,000 wound care centers and outpatient clinics nationwide. Poster Presentation. Robert A. Warriner, III. M.D., FACA, FCCP, FCCWS, ABPM/UHM; Matthew Cardinal, ME; and Robert J. Snyder, DPM, CWS will present a poster abstract titled, ???Delayed Progress in Wound Area Reduction After Four Weeks of Standard Care Predicts Failure to Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers.??? To better understand events that precede the failure to heal DFUs, despite early progress, investigators examined wound area measurements in 120 subjects who had achieved at least 50 percent area reduction of their DFUs following four weeks of conventional treatment. The abstract sheds light on the sub-clinical events that impact the healing of DFUs. The poster will be available for viewing throughout the duration of DF Con 2010. To view the complete abstract, visit: dfcon/abstracts.html.

DF Con 2010 will be held March 18 ??“ 20, 2010, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. ABH will be exhibiting at Booth #304 in the Exhibitor Grand Ballroom.

SOURCE Advanced BioHealing, Inc.