Ann Kahl Taylor, MS, RN, CWOCN®

Ann Kahl Taylor is currently a Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse (CWOCN®) and Infection Preventionist at a hospital in the Atlanta area. She has over 15 years' experience in her specialty and is the owner of Kahl WOC Consults, providing a variety of wound, ostomy, and continence services in long term care, home health and hospice. In addition to her clinical practice, Ann also provides consultation for litigation related to wound care. She established a continence center and wound care protocols for acute and chronic care settings.

Ann is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), and has served in a number of regional leadership positions. Presently, she serves on the Marketing Committee of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board™. Ann has published extensive wound and continence research abstracts with the WOCN Society and has presented her findings at national conferences. She has authored and coauthored articles for Ostomy Wound Management and Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Ann Kahl Taylor is the owner of Kahl WOC Consults. She has an employment relationship with Spalding Regional Medical Center. Ms. Kahl Taylor receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Nonfinancial: Ann Kahl Taylor is a member of the national Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN). She is a member of the WOCN Certification Board, Marketing Committee.

Heidi Huddleston Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWOCN®

Heidi Huddleston Cross is currently a Nurse Practitioner in wound and ostomy care at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and as a Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse (CWOCN®). Heidi has extensive experience in outpatient wound care, and serves as a consultant for long-term care facilities.

Heidi is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™, and traveled to Russia with the WOCN as part of the People to People Ambassador program. She is and has been a participant or chair of multiple national committees related to wound and ostomy care, including chair of the WOCN Certification Board exam committee, and the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel guidelines committee. She is active with the United Ostomy Associations of America (UOAA), having spoken at regional and national conferences. In 2008, she received the UOAA Ostomy Nurse of the Year award and, in 2011, the Convatec Great Comebacks Nurse of the Year award. She is published in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, as well as in the Journal of Wound Technology, and has done legal case review as an expert witness in wound care.

Heidi is a sought-after speaker, and is passionate about wound and ostomy care. She loves to teach healthcare professionals with the goal of bringing knowledge about this topic to a new level, incorporating evidence-based practice. In this small way, Heidi hopes to improve care for wound and ostomy patients nationwide.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Heidi Huddleston Cross has an employment relationship with Upstate University Hospital. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Nonfinancial: Heidi Huddleston Cross is a member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society.