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Thomas E. Serena Founder and Medical Director of the Penn North Centers for Advanced Wound Care is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of William and Mary and Penn State Medical School. He completed his residency in Surgery at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with fellowship training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Southern Illinois University. He is a professor at Gannon University in Erie Pennsylvania where he has established a state-of-the-art research program and developed an acute wound-healing model.
To date he has opened and operates eighteen wound care centers in stretching from Buffalo to Pittsburgh. Dr. Serena has been the lead or Principal investigator in over 30 clinical trials, including testing blood platelets, antimicrobial dressings, growth factors, topical and parenteral antibiotics and bi-layered cell therapy. As a result of the overwhelming demand for his services as a researcher, he founded the NewBridge Medical Research Corporation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to advancing the science of wound healing.
He is recognized internationally as an expert in the field of wound healing: He has 70 published papers and has given more than 100 invited lectures through out the world. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wound Healing Society. | 