Proudly sponsored by Open Wound Research, https://www.openwoundresearch.com/ 

Welcome to the first episode of the Open Wound Research Podcast. My name is Zwelithini Tunyiswa, CEO of Open Wound Research, and we are very excited in this inaugural episode to welcome Harm Smit as our first guest. Harm is a luminary in the world of European wound care, and it is an honor to have him here on the podcast.  

Join us as we explore the Epistemological Apostasy and Biological Models in Wound Care. 

Theme music is « Real as it Gets (Dirty Deed) », by Justin G. Marcellus 

Links from the show: 

Harm on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmjaap/ 

BioMedServ: https://biomedserv.com/ 

Erasmus University Rotterdam: https://www.eur.nl/en 

Journal of Wound Care: https://www.journalofwoundcare.com/ 

Dutch Institute of Biology: https://www.nibi.nl/ 

Coloplast NL: https://www.coloplast.nl/ 

National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel: https://npiap.com/ 

Wounds UK 2018 “Adapting fast and slow: force related tissue damage”: https://wounds-uk.com/journal-articles/adapting-fast-and-slow-force-related-tissue-damage/ 

Wounds UK 2018 “A five-level model for wound analysis and treatment”: https://wounds-uk.com/journal-articles/five-level-model-wound-analysis-and-treatment/ 

Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro 

00:56 Harm’s background 

04:24 Harm’s origin story in science 

06:42 Harm’s origin story in wound care 

09:09 Dealing with challenges in production and marketing of new products 

15:20 Challenging the orthodoxy  

35:06 Wound forces, tissues and adaptation 

44:26 A five-level model for wound analysis and treatment 

58:31 Closing question