Peter Vowden MB, ChB, MD, FRCS

Professor Vowden is senior surgeon in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Bradford Royal Infirmary and Clinical Director of The NIHR Healthcare Co-operative for Wound Prevention and Treatment at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently Visiting Professor in Wound Healing Research at the University of Bradford. After qualifying in Leeds in 1976 he worked in Cambridge, where he undertook research for his MD, and Bristol before taking up his current position as Consultant Vascular Surgeon in Bradford Teaching Hospitals in 1990. With his wife he has developed a specialist wound healing unit and has a particular interest in the management of lower limb and diabetic foot ulceration.

His research interests include wound measurement, vascular assessment, wound diagnostics, wound debridement, and compression therapy. He has published widely on wound care and has authored several book chapters on wound management. He is a Past President of The European Wound Management Association and is still actively involved in the Association. He is currently Chair of the National Advanced Wound Care Group, a specialty interest group within the UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network. He serves on the editorial board of a number of wound care journals including International Wound Journal, The Journal of Wound Care, and Wounds UK. He has been actively involved in both EWMA Position Documents and the World Union of Wound Healing Societies Consensus Statements and in 2010 he was awarded The Medilink Beacon Award acknowledging his outstanding contribution to wound care. Professor Vowden has recently been appointed as the Medical Director for the charity “Woundcare4Heros”.