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News from the Laboratory of Raj Mani
Southampton University Hospitals Trust (NHS)
Dr Raj A.J. Mani, July 2002
Over the last two years we have done hardly much at all
in this laboratory except to see Lina Hammad and Geoff Roberts successfully
gain their higher degrees, set up a Vascular Medicine Research Group,
and develop a new journal, the International Journal of Lower Extremity
Wounds.
Why develop a new journal?
A probing query from Sage Science Publications, USA who had encountered
our book on measurements and a long reflective silence led to this journal.
It appears to be the right move to fill a niche in the shelves where wound
journals are stored. This quarterly has now seen its first two issues
and the we on the Editorial Team are keenly looking forward to further
development. The journal is by and for a multidisciplinary audience.
The concept of multidisciplinary team approach to wound healing has taken
root over here to an extent that led by Andrew Krentz, Consultant in Diabetes
and Endo-crinology, Cliff Shearman and I successfully proposed to the
Trust that a research group be formed with a focus on Vascular Medicine
Research. We are grateful for the grant enabling us to develop risk factor
management of peripheral vascular disease and wound healing in diabetes.
So far as diabetic foot disease is concerned we are grappling with National
Service Framework for diabetes directives and to this end the Vascular
Medicine Group formation is timely. Collectively we are relieved that
two specialist nurses in Tissue Viability have joined the Trust which
should make co-ordinated efforts easier. Famous last words perhaps?
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