Associate Professor Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts

Kylie is Associate Professor, Centre for Molecular Medicine & Innovative Therapeutics, Murdoch University and Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Cardiff University. She is Founder and President of a not-for-profit association, the International Surgical Wound Complications Advisory Panel (ISWCAP). ISWCAP’s vision is to generate awareness of surgical wound complications and improve outcomes for patients through early detection, and prevention via education and research with an international panel of experts.   Kylie is a Research Scientist and Chief Investigator of several clinical trials ranging from Phase 1 first in human studies to phase 3-4 comparative effectiveness trials.  Kylie’s research focuses upon early identification, prevention and management of surgical wound complications including surgical site infection (SSI) and surgical wound dehiscence (SWD).  

Kylie has Chaired and co-authored over 5 international clinical consensus documents, first authored over 20 original research papers and chaired the ISWCAP Best Practice Statement on the early identification and prevention of surgical wound complications. She is a regular review for many peer reviewed journals and sits on a number of journal editorial boards.

She is a Past Chair of the Board of Wounds Australia and currently serves on a number of national and international boards including the World Union of Wound Healing Societies Executive Board as Recorder and the Scientific and Ethics Committee.

Kylie is current Chair of the Australian National Steering Committee Surgical Wounds Panel and Wound Research Directory for the Australian Health Research Alliance National Wound Care Initiative (2020-2025).  She was recently acknowledged internationally for her contribution to the field of surgical site infection prevention as the 2021 Winner of the Journal of Wound Care World Union Innovation in Surgical Site Infection Award.