Lee C. Ruotsi MD, FACCWS, UHM, CWSP

Dr. Ruotsi is the Medical Director of the Catholic Health Advanced Wound Healing Program in Buffalo, NY, and is Fellowship Program Director for the Wound Care Fellowship. He is board certified in Wound Care by the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery, is certified as a Wound Specialist (CWS-P) by the American Board of Wound Management, and is board certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is additionally certified as a Diving Medical Officer (DMO) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is on the Board of Directors of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP).

Dr. Ruotsi is a Founding Diplomate and sits on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery and is Co-Chair of the Wound Care Summit for the AMP Amputation Prevention Symposium. He sat on the Board of Directors of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists and was Chair of its Education Committee from 2013 through 2015. He is a clinical instructor of medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo and serves as an instructor and preceptor, in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, for medical, physical therapy, and nursing students as well as residents in the internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatric residency programs and Vascular Surgery Fellowship.