Medical Advisors & Clinical Investigators
Stanley Poulos, MD
Dr. Poulos is a board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 25 years experience in clinical practice. As a plastic surgery resident, Dr. Poulos spent a year as a fellow in the Bothin Burn Center at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco specializing in acute burn care and surgical reconstruction of burn scar deformities. He participated extensively in the development of dressing protocols for burn wounds, skin grafts and donor sites and continued this work as a consultant and attending physician at the Shriner’s Burn Clinic in San Francisco. He entered private practice in plastic surgery in Marin County, California where he served as chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery and chairman of the Department of Surgery at local hospitals. He performed the clinical trials on the Oxyband™ dressings in the treatment of laser burns.
Harriet Hopf, MD
Dr. Harriet Hopf is an internationally renowned expert in clinical wound care and wound healing research. Dr. Hopf is Professor with the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Utah and the Medical Director of the Wound Care Clinic at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. She moved to Salt Lake City from the University of California, San Francisco, where she was Professor of Anesthesia and Surgery and Associate Director of the Wound Healing Laboratory. Dr. Hopf is board certified in Anesthesiology as well as Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. She serves as Secretary of the Wound Healing Society and is on the Board of Directors of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. She works with pharmaceutical and device companies in clinical trials as well as with government agencies including Medicare on efficacy studies. She and Dr. Hunt were instrumental in demonstrating the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen treatment for Diabetic Ulcers and its subsequent acceptance by Medicare for reimbursement. She is chair of the Wound Healing Foundation’s Arterial Ulcers Guideline Committee, which created practical clinical wound care guidelines that were published in December 2006 in the journal Wound Repair and Regeneration. Her research focuses on measuring tissue oxygen and improving wound healing outcomes by increasing oxygen delivery to the wound. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and lectures frequently both in the United States and abroad.
Thomas K. Hunt, M.D.
Dr. Hunt is a surgeon, a professor of surgery and the Director of the Wound Healing Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the foremost expert on oxygen and wound healing and he has been researching and publishing since the 1960’s. Dr. Hunt serves as the Vice Chairman for Research Affairs for the Department of Surgery at UCSF. In addition to being a Professor of Surgery at UCSF, he is also an adjunct professor of surgery at Ohio State University, and consulting surgeon, at the University of Tuebingen in Tuebingen, Germany. Dr. Hunt is a member of the board of directors for both the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and the Wound Healing Society.