Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. Ratliff is a PhD prepared nurse practitioner at UVA Health where she manages vascular patients with acute and chronic wounds. She also teaches at the school of nursing where she is a clinical associate professor and previously was the program director for a Wound Ostomy Continence Program (WOC). She has spoken at many national meetings on the topic of wound care. She has numerous publications on wound care and has been instrumental in publishing several national guidelines on lower extremity arterial, venous, and neuropathic disease. She is the past chair of the WOCN guidelines task force and was the primary author on the pressure injury guidelines (2016). She is a past board member of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP). She was the group leader for the section on Prevalence and Incidence in the NPIAP, EPUAP & PPPIA, Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline in 2014 and a group leader for the classification section on the updated version of the Clinical Practice Guideline in 2019.