A session from a previous WHSI Innovation Summit — where leaders from science, clinical practice, and industry convene to drive collaboration. The 20th edition will be held in Europe, continuing this tradition of global exchange.
Written by OneGuild Institute
For two decades, the Wound Healing Science & Industry (WHSI) Innovation Summit, convened by OneGuild Institute, has done something few gatherings in health and science can claim: it has created a space where academic researchers, clinicians, industry scientists, policymakers, and investors meet not to present in isolation, but to think together.
From its beginnings, WHSI has embraced a simple but transformative idea: the future of wound healing and limb preservation depends on collaboration across disciplines. Science alone cannot solve the challenge. Translation, adoption, and impact require the perspectives of everyone along the continuum — from bench to bedside to policy to market.
Unlike large-scale meetings where participants scatter between parallel sessions, WHSI is intentionally intimate. Held in immersive locations designed to remove distractions, the Summit ensures that participants not only hear each other’s work but truly connect. Over shared meals, unhurried discussions, and focused sessions, dialogue runs deep — bridging clinical realities, cutting-edge science, and pathways to application.
This model prioritizes depth over scale: fewer people, more meaningful exchange. It is an environment where world-leading experts and industry innovators meet as peers, aligning perspectives that too often remain siloed.This model prioritizes depth over scale: fewer people, more meaningful exchange. It is an environment where world-leading experts and industry innovators meet as peers, aligning perspectives that too often remain siloed.
The program is designed to reflect the full continuum of innovation:
Each session is built to accelerate what matters most: ensuring promising ideas advance toward meaningful patient impact.
WHSI convenes a uniquely broad yet focused community:
What unites them is not scale but selectivity: WHSI is where the most relevant voices — from leaders of the field to bold innovators in industry — gather for focused, outcome-driven exchange.
The Summit embodies the vision of Dr. Peter Sheehan, who believed progress in diabetes and limb preservation required translation, collaboration, and shared purpose. His legacy lives on each year at WHSI: in the conversations that challenge assumptions, the partnerships sparked, and the science advanced toward real-world delivery.
As WHSI enters its twentieth year, its mission remains clear: to be a catalyst for innovation that heals, preserves, and restores. More than a meeting, WHSI is a community committed to ensuring that the world’s most urgent needs in wound healing and limb preservation are met with the very best of science, collaboration, and vision.
Because solving the hardest problems in health requires more than discovery. It requires delivery — and it requires us, together.
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