Dr. Ravi K. Kamepalli is a Board Certified Infectious Disease physician and an Epidemiologist. He is a Certified Wound Specialist and a Diplomate of American Board of Obesity

Medicine practicing at Regional Infectious Diseases and Infusion Center, Inc., in Lima, Ohio since 2003. Dr. Kamepalli

received his medical degree from Guntur Medical College, Guntur, AP, India. He did his residency at Wyckoff Heights

Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center, New York. He is a Fellow of Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA) for achieving professional excellence in Infectious Diseases. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences. He was the Past Medical Director of Hyperbaric Clinic and Chief of Division of Infectious Diseases at St. Rita’s Medical Center.

He has a passion for all things infection and wound related, with a particular emphasis on healthcare delivery, transition of care and use of technology including telemedicine to break down barriers to healing. He has particular understanding and interest in population health as it helps to have greater impact. He has participated on multiple Expert Consensus Panels and has been a speaker at multiple national and international conferences. He is actively involved in clinical research in over 60 Clinical Trials. His dream project (http://www.nobadbugs.com/dream-project.html) is to create a self-sustaining health care system in India and he understands that is only though the use of population health

methodologies and technologies like Telemedicine.

CWSP-Certified Wound Care Specialist certification is imperative in the current practice of wound care. Our patients, professional associates, nursing home facility partners, and wound care centers require the reassurance of well-trained providers. Wound care is an excellent specialty but many providers are not properly trained or board certified, putting patient care and continuity of care at risk. At Comprehensive Wound Care Services we focus on competent patient-centered care and wound care-based education for our nursing team members. CWSP certification allows our practice the confidence to provide state of the art compassionate care to our patients and facility partners. Our practice educates and establishes wound care based programs and protocols. Our board certified CWSP training requirements for our wound care surgeons are key to our continued progressive success.

 I love having my wound care certification but, it was A long winding road to get there. I worked the first 20 years of my nursing career as an ICU nurse, the sicker the more stimulated I felt and my brain was happy. As that 20 years ticked away and patients got sicker and much heavier I started seeing more skin and wound issues. I felt that skin and wound issues were my weakest link in my care giving. I could take care of the patient except that red spot on there bottom, so I started looking up information on Pressure Ulcers and realized I was lacking in knowledge.

Over the next few years I was eager to learn, I joined our local wound society and started asking questions. I found out you could become certified in wound care, so my journey to find the right education to fit my busy family life was on. I used Wound Educators to study online then sat for the test. I have been an CWCA since 2015 and have found it invaluable to my career. After my certification the job position I'm in now opened, had I not been certified this opportunity would never have been available. I now am the Manager at the Newton Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center in Newton, Kansas and I love my job! We are able to help so many people, it is truly rewarding.