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Desmond P. Bell, Jr., DPM, CWS
 
   
 

Dr. Desmond Bell is a Board Certified Wound Specialist (CWS- American Academy of Wound Management). Prior to starting the First Coast Diabetic Foot & Wound Management Center, he served as the assistant Medical Director of the Wound Management Center of Jacksonville.

Dr. Bell is a graduate of Tulane University and the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine). He served his residency training programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia and Delaware Valley Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. While at the VA, Dr. Bell received a Commendation in part for his role in wound care. He served as chief Podiatric Surgical resident and was actively involved in the Wound Care Center at Delaware Valley.

Dr. Bell is a frequent lecturer on the subject of wound care and diabetes. He has lectured on behalf of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida, the American Diabetes Association, and the University of North Florida. He has been in private practice in Jacksonville, Florida since 1997 and is on staff at Memorial Hospital of Jacksonville, St. Luke’s Hospital and Specialty Hospital of Jacksonville. Dr. Bell serves on the Medical Executive Committee at Specialty Hospital and is active in the Wound Management program.


 

   

De Anna M. Bell, MSN, ARNP, BC

De Anna is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and serves in multiple roles within our center. Dr. Bell provides lower extremity wound management, while De Anna has been able to expand the services that we can provide by treating both upper and lower extremity wounds. She is both a provider and serves as the administrator of the center. She is the co-founder of the First Coast Diabetic Wound Management Center and she developed our community outreach program, Wound Care on Wheels in 2004. De Anna graduated from the University of North Florida’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program and received a Master of science degree in Nursing in April of 2004. She received her Bachelors degree in Nursing from Thomas Jefferson University and her RN degree from Frankford Hospital School of Nursing (affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University) in Philadelphia. She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau international honor society of nursing and graduated Summa Cum Laude from her undergraduate programs. De Anna will provide Nurse Practitioner services through our community outreach program, Wound Care on Wheels, beginning during the second quarter of 2005. She will be providing home wound management services to the homebound members of our communities and will be providing mobile wound management services in our 30-foot mobile unit as well.

 
David K. Swain, DPM
 
 
   
 

Limb Salvage Institute, LLC

8833 Perimeter Park Blvd., Suite 501
Jacksonville, Florida 32216-1110
Phone: 904-642-0877    Fax: 904-642-0785