On February 7th, Marta Ferrer-Solà became a Ph.D. at UVic-UCC after defending her doctoral thesis under the Doctoral program in Health, Welfare, and Quality of Life. The thesis, entitled “Care for complex wounds in wound clinical units“, was directed by Ph.D. Marta Otero Viñas and PhD. José Javier Soldevilla.

The thesis earned cum laude honors before a panel by Ph.D. José Verdú, professor in the Department of Community Nursing, Preventive medicine and public health and history of science at the University of Alicante; Ph.D. Joan Enric Torra, Regional Clinical Manager, Advanced Wound Management at Smith&Nephew Latin America Region; and Ph.D. Joan Manel Pérez-Castejón Garrote, Head of the Medical service at the Sociosanitary Center Dolors Aleu in Barcelona.

With her thesis, Ferrer provides data about how the coordinated integration of prevention strategies, specific techniques of wound bed preparation, and the application of biological therapies in the context of an interdisciplinary clinical unit of wounds, led by nurses, ensure better care for wound care and a better healing rate.

Wound healing

Marta Ferrer-Solà defends her doctoral thesis in wound healing field

The new doctor, Marta Ferrer-Solà, with the codirectors of her thesis, PhD. Marta Otero-Viñas and PhD. José J Soldevilla, and the members of the examination panel, PhD. José Verdú, PhD. Joan Enric Torra, and PhD. Joan Manel Pérez-Castejón.