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The 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award

This issue of the Journal represents a major milestone in the continued evolution of the publication. With the issue, we begin our tenth year of publishing what has become an essential source of wound healing information for the worldwide tissue repair and regeneration community. Over these past 10 years, research and clinical care of wounds, particularly chronic wounds, have undergone major changes in both the type of research questions that can be addressed and treatment modalities used in the clinic. Along the way, virtually every development of the field has been chronicled by Original Research Articles and Perspective Articles in these pages. This issue is also significant in that it contains the award address from the 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient given by the Wound Healing Society to only a handful of individuals who have devoted their life’s work to wound healing research and treatment. At the Annual Meeting of the Society in Toronto, this award was presented to I. Kelman Cohen, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Cohen is a native New Englander who completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. His path to a medical degree was not quite as direct as this description may indicate, but that is another story. Following his general surgery residency, he obtained training in plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University before moving to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a 2-year fellowship. It was at the NIH that Dr. Cohen developed a keen interest in collagen metabolism in wound healing, and particularly the abnormal collagen accumulation in the extracellular matrix of fibrotic states, notably keloids and hypertrophic scars. He was recruited to the Medical College of Virginia by Dr. David Hume, a pioneer in human organ transplantation, to establish a plastic surgery program with a strong research component. He remained at the Medical College as Chairman of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery during his entire academic medical career. Early on, he recruited Dr. Robert Diegelmann to the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory, and what followed were a series of seminal articles in the area of collagen metabolism in keloids and other scarring conditions. More recently, studies have also reflected an interest in abnormalities of collagen deposition in chronic wounds. Throughout this research, Dr. Cohen has shown a strong interest in training individuals from around the world, including fellows from India, Korea, and Africa. Along with his research, which has been funded continually for 30 years by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Cohen was one of the founding members of the Wound Healing Society and served as its first Vice President and then as President. In addition, he hosted the second Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia in 1992. His impact on the Society continues because he is the inaugural President of the Wound Healing Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to promote wound-healing research and clinical care through distribution of grants and awards.