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Officers
VWHA President
Jacintha M Wilmink DVM, PhD, Dipl RNVA
'Woumarec', Wageningen, The Netherlands
Owner of her own consultancy on wound management and reconstruction in the
equine "Woumarec" since 2003 Jacintha regularly performs surgery in several
clinics dealing with complex wounds and scars. Specialising in skin grafting
techniques, wound and scar reconstruction she has been teaching wound
healing and management to veterinary students and veterinarians and has
successfully developed a new method for skin grafting in horses: The Meek
micrograft technique.
Apart from practical work, she is often invited as speaker on international
congresses and lecturer for courses and workshops on equine wound management
both in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Additionally, she has been and is
still is involved in international research on equine wound healing. She is
co-author of the second edition of Stashak's Equine Wound Management, which
will be published in 2008.
Jacintha Wilmink graduated from the Veterinary School of Utrecht University
in The Netherlands in 1991 and started work in equine veterinary practice in
New Zealand and the Netherlands. From 1993 until 2001 she worked in the
Department of Equine Sciences at Utrecht University, where she did a
residence in equine surgery and a PhD on equine wound healing, both
successfully finished in 2000. Since 1997 Jacintha has been an active
council member of the VWHA. In 2004-2005 she was recorder and organised the
8th Annual Congress of the VWHA in Amsterdam. From April 2005 until November
2007 she has been membership secretary and intensified the contacts with
members. In November 2007 she was unanimously supported to become president
of the VWHA.
WOUMAREC,
www.woumarec.nl
Hamsterlaan 4,
6705 CT Wageningen,
The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 317 414462
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