With over 20 years of experience as a Biomedical Scientist within the field of diagnostic microbiology, Greg Williams is now forging a new career path as a clinical liaison BMS for Public Health Wales Microbiology. A new developmental role with the aim of establishing a closer collaboration between microbiology and the wider health care services of Wales.

Currently, the main focus of this role is to establish closer communication, awareness, understanding and learning between microbiology and the wound care services of Wales.

Greg is also on the HSST specialist clinical consultant program, where he is pursuing a doctorate investigating wound microbiota changes in response to commonly used wound dressings.

Presentation at The Society of Tissue Viability 2025 Conference

Moving from communication to collaboration – a microbiology approach

Objectives

This session is aimed at all wound care providers and colleagues interested in learning more about the microbiology of wound care, and how collaboration is vital for both microbiology and wound care colleagues, explaining:

• Why collaboration is much deeper than we think
• The importance of collaborating with microbiology
• Service improvements we have introduced for wound care in Wales
• An introduction to some interesting wound causing bacteria

Abstract

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