The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment
by Monica Timko-Progar, BSN, RN, CWS; Naomi Ward, RN, BSN, CWS; and Michael O. Fleming, MD, FAAFP
This article was first published in Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine, Volume 4 Issue 2. The article is now available to you in downloadable PDF 
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About the Author
Michael Fleming, MD is the chief medcial officer of Amedisys, is a past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians, and was the founding president of Louisiana Health care Quality Forum. Fleming has served as speaker of the Congress of Delegates of the AAFP, and as a board chair of the AAFP Board of Directors. He is the founding director, chairman and chief medical officer for Antidote Education Company, producing continuing educaiton for healthcare providers. He serves as an assistant clinical professor in the Departmetn of Family Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Science Center and in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Tulane University Medical School.
Amedisys delivers personalized home health care and hospice services to patients and their families in the comfort of patient's home. Last year alone, Amedisys care teams made 11 million patient care visits across the country. For more information about Amedisys, please visit www.amedisys.com
