Virginia Capasso, PhD, CNP, CNS, CWS, FACCWS, FAAN

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Advanced Practice Nurse, Nurse Scientist / Instructor in Surgery

Dr. Virginia Capasso, PhD, CNP, CNS, CWS, FACCWS, FAAN is an Advanced Practice Nurse for Patient Care Services, Office of Quality, Safety, Informatics, and Practice and a Nurse Scientist, Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Wound Management. She was a Director on the Board of Directors of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) from 2018 through 2023. Her other NPIAP roles include Co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Research (June, 2022 – December, 2023), member of Support Surface Standard Initiative (S3I) [2014-present], the international Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative (PDSI) [2021-present] and two PDSI subgroups focused on adhesiveness and mechanical properties / durability. Her research has focused on methods of measurement of wound volume and the cost and effectiveness of wound treatments.