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Meet Our Wound Care Instructors

WCEI delivers world-class wound care education taught by expert, credentialed healthcare professionals, ensuring clinical relevance and real-world applicability.

Joy Hooper RN, BSN, CWOCN, OMS, WCC

Clinical Instructor

Joy is an RN with over 20 years of wound and ostomy care experience and has practiced in a variety of hospital and home care settings. 

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Becky Strilko RN, BSN, CWOCN, APRN-FPA, OMS, WCC

Clinical Instructor

Becky has practiced as an RN and APRN for over 30 years and has been board certified as a tri-specialty Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurse for over 25 years.

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Don Wollheim MD, FAPWCA, WCC, DWC

Clinical Instructor

Dr. Wollheim is a Board-Certified surgeon with over 25 years’ experience in general / vascular surgery and wound care. 

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Allen Zagoren DO, MPA, FACOS, FACN, WCC, FAPWCA

Clinical Instructor

Dr. Zagoren is board certified general trauma surgeon with specialties in critical care nutrition and chronic and acute wound management with over 40 years’ experience.

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Gloried Ebsworth DPM, WCC, DWC

Clinical Instructor

Gloried is a dedicated healthcare professional with over 13 years of experience in both private and federal-sponsored podiatry medicine and wound care.

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Tamara Wilfong MSN, APRN-FPA, FNP-BC, WCC

Clinical Instructor

Tammy Wilfong is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with more than 30 years of experience treating patients with wounds. 

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Myra Varnado BS RN CWON CFCN

Clinical Instructor

Myra has been a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse for 24 years, having graduated from Emory University’s WOC Nursing Education Program. She lives in the New Orleans area and provides consultation of a variety of Wound and Ostomy concerns. 

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