Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, CWCN, CFCN, FAAN, FACCWS

Emory University, TPOG Associates, LLC

Senior Partner; Clinical Professor

Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWS, has practiced nursing for 53 years. In the late 1980s, with grant support, he started the street medicine work of Mercy Care in Atlanta, Georgia, and since 2011 he has served its Street Medicine Program as a wound and foot specialist, caring for people living unsheltered on the city’s streets. A certified wound care nurse (CWCN), certified foot care nurse (CFCN), advanced practice nurse in gerontology, and member of the WOCN Society, he carries the same clinical rigor to the curbside that he brings to the boardroom. He is Senior Partner, Health Systems, at TPOG Associates and Clinical Professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Recognized internationally as the originator of the professional governance framework and quantum leadership theory, he has consulted with more than 300 institutions; his honors include induction into the American Nurses Association Nurse's Hall of Fame, the AONL/STTI Lifetime Achievement Award, and ten AJN Book of the Year Awards. His recent narrative review in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing examines the psychodynamics of rendering foot and wound care to psychologically challenged street homeless persons. For Dr. Porter-O’Grady, street medicine is not an activity apart from his scholarship and leadership; it is the clinical grounding that keeps them honest.