For two decades, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) has provided a venue at which the interdisciplinary wound care community can gather, greet, learn, and play. Fortunately in the process, this meeting has become the biggest and best wound care conference in the country that is now celebrating its 22nd year. Our motto — One Vision, Many Faces, One Family — continues to guide us. We are pleased to announce the first SAWC Fall, which will carry on our great tradition. Connected by our involvement with our patients, our healthcare
settings, the government agencies that regulate our care, and various overarching organizations; we work toward a common goal — to decrease the number and severity of chronic wounds.

Scheduled for September 16 – 18, 2009 at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in the greater Washington, DC area, this new symposium will offer up to 40 clinical sessions and host a major exhibition of products and services for wound care professionals. The SAWC is committed to providing the highest level of clinical wound care education and information to physicians, podiatrists, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals dedicated to the advancement of wound care and wound healing and we have had the pleasure of doing this for more than 20 years.