Alisha Oropallo, MD, FACS, FSVS, FAPWCA, is currently the director of the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell Health. Her work focuses on developing a wound care registry to address patients with chronic nonhealing wounds. Her work in information science will involve utilizing of natural language processing, machine learning and information retrieval. Her research will integrate web-based short text conversation with a traditional data repository to improve patient education, quality measures in wound care and outcomes.