Jeffrey Niezgoda, MD, MAPWCA, FACHM, CHWS
Past President Dr. Jeffrey Niezgoda is Past President of both the American Professional Wound CareAssociation and the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine and has devoted decades to thepursuit of uniting wound care clinicians under the banner of single professional society. Hisdevotion to establish wound care as a formal medical specialty, with a recognized pathway toboard certification and to dissolve the commercial control and industry influence on the clinicalpractice of wound care is recognized globally.From 1998 to 2013, Dr. Niezgoda served as Medical Director of the Center for ComprehensiveWound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. During this time, he also served as President and Chief Medical Officer of Hyperbaric & Wound Care Associates, a multi-physician group providing wound and hyperbaric careservices throughout Wisconsin and internationally. He is Founder and President Emeritus ofAZH Wound & Hyperbaric Center MKE.Dr. Niezgoda brings extensive experience in clinical research and has been instrumental in thedevelopment and commercialization of multiple medical devices and technologies. He hasserved as a consultant to industry, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), andthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Kent Imaging, a Calgary, Canada-basedcompany offering comprehensive wound imaging technologies. Dr. Niezgoda also holds the roleof President and Chief Medical Officer for several additional organizations, including WebCME,an international medical education company dedicated to delivering wound care andhyperbaric medicine training online; Auxillium Healthcare, focused on artificial intelligenceapplications in medical imaging; and RxOS Medical, a medical device company that produces aninnovative wound care hydrogel.Dr. Niezgoda is a 1981 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned his MedicalDegree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland,in 1985.