Our host for the evening, Salman Qureshi, takes the stage at the wonderful Aloft Hotel in Abu Dhabi #WUWHS2022

The first award, Contribution to Education in Wound Care, is supported by the Lindsay Leg Club. Its founder, Ellie Lindsay, takes to the stage to announce the winner #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

And the winner is... Sarah Gardner, Independent Wound Care Consultant! Sarah is collecting this award on behalf of LegsMatter, whose website, social media and PR campaigns have raised public awareness of lower limb and foot conditions #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The next category is Wound Hygiene Implementation, sponsored by ConvatecWoundUK 💜. The brilliant Rachel Torkington-Stokes, Director of Medical Affairs and Advanced Wound Care at ConvaTec, announces the top-3 finalists #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

And the winner is... Catherine Milne, from Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates in Bristol (US)! ConvatecWoundUK 💜 #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The award for Innovation in Surgical Site Infection, sponsored by Essity, is presented by Camila Fronzo, editor of JWC LATAM #WUWHS2022

And the winner is... Melissa Rochon, Quality and Safety Lead for Surveillance at Harefield Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (UK)! Congratulations on behalf of Essity and JWC LATAM #WUWHS2022

Congratulations to the winner of the Innovation in Diabetic Food Care award, Dr Bharat Kotru, Podiatrist and Wound Care Specialist at Max Hospital. This award is sponsored by @UrgoMedicalUK and handed out by Serge Bohbot #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The Innovation in Wound Care award, sponsored by @HARTMANN_GROUP, went to the wonderful South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust, Tissue Viability Service, Barnsley (UK) #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The Contribution to Clinical or Preclinical Research award is sponsored by Convatec and went to Julian Guest, Health Economist at Catalyst Consultants and Visiting Professor of Health Economics at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine in King’s College (UK) #WUWHS2022

Another prestigious category, the Outstanding Achievement in Patient Care award, is sponsored by Accel-Heal Technologies Limited and given to Maximilian Kueckelhaus, Head of Experimental Plastic Surgery at the Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (Germany) #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The next prize, Excellence in Compression and MLD, is presented by Sophie Gardner, Editor of British Journal of Nursing (BJN) #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

And the winner is... Chloé Venturi, Global Brand Manager UrgoK1 at Urgo Medical! @UrgoMedicalUK #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

Next is the Advances in Infection and Biofilm category, sponsored by @HARTMANN_GROUP. Adriana Bordeanu, Director of Global Medical Education and KOL Management at Hartmann Group, hands out the award

And the winner is... Thomas Serena, CEO and Medical Director at SerenaGroup Research Foundation (US)! #WUWHS2022 Journal of Wound Care

The Innovation in Skin Integrity award, sponsored by Essity, went to Kimberly LeBlanc, Chair of the Wound Ostomy Continence Institute/Nurses Specialized in Wound Ostomy and Continence Care Canada Nurses Specialized in Wound, Ostomy & Continence #WUWHS2022

One of our favourites, the Most Progressive Society award, was sponsored by @UrgoMedicalUK and given to Harikrishna K.R. Nair, President of the Malaysian Society of Wound Care Professionals (MSWCP) Journal of Wound Care #WUWHS2022

The Most Innovative Dressing or Device was supported by JWC and presented by Anthony Kerr, Managing Director at MA Healthcare, who proudly handed this to Mike Linnell, Global Brand Manager at Aroa Journal of Wound Care #WUWHS2022

The two final awards were supported by WUWHS CONGRESS and presented by its president, Gulnaz Tariq: the Rising Star, which went to Nihal Bashir and Shyja Koshy, and the Excellence in Wound Care from the UAE, which was given to Chaitanya Kodange (Bahrain) Journal of Wound Care #WUWHS2022

Congratulations to all the winers! We look forward to seeing you at the next JWC WUWHS Awards in 2026. Journal of Wound Care #WUWHS2022