Georgina is Editor of the Journal of Wound Management, former scientific recorder and executive member of the European Wound Management Association.

She was appointed by the Minister for Health to the Podiatrist Registration Board of Ireland.  Her specialist areas of interest are in smart wound care technologies, epidemiology of wounds, core outcome sets, wound bed assessment incorporating wound pH and temperature and palliative wound care.

She has over 100 scientific publications and book chapters. She is currently PI on research projects with grant income of over €8m from Health Research Board of Ireland, Irish Research Council and Research Ireland.

In 2017, she Co-founded the Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency group dedicated to the advancement of wound care and improving patient outcomes.

Presentation at The Society of Tissue Viability 2025 Conference

Wound related pain – are we responding to patient need?

Objectives

Aimed at industry, researchers, clinicians and policy makers.

• Results of a systematic review on current topical interventions for management of wound-related pain
• Results of patient interviews on their experience of wound-related pain
• Synthesis of patient requests for interventions to manage wound-related pain
• Raising the question on whether wound-related pain should be reported based on sex in future research on the topic

Abstract

Pain is cited by patients and clinicians as one of the most distressing wound-related symptoms. Additionally, it is also cited as being poorly recognised and without adequate resources being available for its management.

This presentation will discuss the finding of a systematic review and patient interviews in which we identify how poorly this symptom is managed.

Patients have asked for interventions to manage wound-related pain and the question remains, if we are actually listening to them? The presentation will propose a call to action for researchers, industry and clinicians to work together to find soloutions for this distressing symptom.

Presentation at the Advances in wound care study day

Patient experience and current strategies for pain management in chronic wounds

Abstract

Pain is consistently cited as one of the most distressing symptoms associated with wounds, both acute and chronic. Yet, research on interventions to manage such pain are severely lacking and makes us question whether we are conducting research that tackles issues of importance to patients or are we conducting research of interest to researchers and industry alike.

In this presentation I will discuss our  public patient involvement initiatives that have included patients in the prioritisation, design and conduct of research studies including that of pain management. I will also report on our research which has asked patients not only how they describe their pain but how they currently cope with it and manage it and finally I will present the results of a systematic review on topical interventions to manage wound pain and highlight gaps for research and practice.