The Woundcon 2003 was held at CLRI Chennai and was organised by Dr Mary Babu. Dr Ramaswami (Director CLRI) declared strong support for skin research at CLRI. Dr Raj Mani highlighted the changing perspective in wound care, and Dr Nick Bosanquat (UK) emphasised the need for reducing the economic burden. Dr Luc Téot emphasised the need for RCT in wound management, and Dr Silvie spoke about wound dressings. Dr Finn Gottrup emphasised the need for organising the wound healing services, and Dr Luther Kloth dealt with electrical stimulation and angiogenesis. Dr Latha Satish spoke on molecular switches, and Dr Shukla spoke on pressure ulcers. There were two days of exciting CME programme.

A best-paper session was started during Wound-con 2003 and the first prize was won by Dr Harinath for his presentation on the preparation of reconstituted type I bovine collagen, Second prize was awarded to Raifiudeen Ahamed for his work on Glycyl histidyl lysine incorporated collagen film on rat wound healing.

General body also asked the Secretary to explore the feasibility of starting an oration and a fellowship during the next five years. The discussions are ongoing in this regard.

Woundindia.org website:
The website was launched in October 2002 and has been made fully functional on 20 December 2002.

Posting of members list on web:
All the members were asked to provide their details and photograph for posting on web; those who supplied were provided an active link to it on the web.

Discussion forum:
An online discussion forum was started at the society web portal. It was activated in October 2002. Members can post messages and discussions on this site.

Newsletter:
An electronic newsletter was developed and its first issue was dispatched to all the members on electronic dispatch link.

News update on web:
The link to latest publications on wound healing is provided at the web address:
www.woundindia.org/news.html

Membership:
The number of members has grown to nearly 100.

Manoj Pandey
Secretary, Indian Society of Wound Management