Each year the NSWOCC President has the privilege of recognizing an NSWOC who has exemplified leadership in the wound, ostomy and continence specialty. The President's Award goes beyond job titles. The award goes to someone who has worked tirelessly, often behind the scenes, to advance our mission, support our community and elevate our specialty in meaningful and lasting ways. This year the recipient is truly a champion of evidence informed practice. With over twenty years of research and dozens of publications from peer reviewed articles to textbook chapters, to textbooks, this individual is leading change and knowledge development throughout our specialty and profession. This year's Awardee has been an ambassador for the association at an international level. He has led our association’s Research Practice Core Program and assisted with the literature searches for all best practice recommendation documents over the past five years. He has served on the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel and helped found the Canadian Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. This individual has consistently demonstrated the NSWOCC values of excellence, leadership and collaboration. I am proud to say that I have personally experienced the mentorship that this individual provides first as a PhD supervisor and now as a colleague. I now have the honour of awarding Dr. Kevin Woo with the 2025 NSWOCC President's Award.
Corey Heerschap (2025) studied this question.