Northeast Surgical Wound Care Physicians

Keith M. Warner MD, FACS
Serves as the CEO and managing member of NESAO, LTD and NESWC, Inc.

He is board certified in general surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In practice for more than twenty-five (25) years in Northeast Ohio, he has served as the chairman of surgical quality assurance at St. Luke’s Hospital, Bedford Community Hospital and Elyria Memorial Regional Medical Center. He is a past chairman of the department of surgery at Elyria Memorial Regional Medical Center. He has also chaired the invasive procedure committees for St. Luke’s Hospital, Meridia Suburban Hospital, Bedford Community Hospital and Elyria Memorial Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Warner is the founding member of NESAO, Ltd. and NESWC, Inc. Both companies are chartered with Dr. Warner’s long historical commitment to patient service, safety and quality of care. He developed the “Elyria Memorial Wound Center”, which opened in 2008 and is managed by in partnership with Diversified Clinical Services (DCS). This center has received the DCS “Center for Distinction” award for excellence for two consecutive years, representing the top 15 percent performance tier on a national scale by DCS.

Dr. Warner is an honors graduate of Farleigh Dickerson University. He completed his doctorate in medicine at the University of Kentucky. His post graduate training was in general surgery and in colon and rectal surgery. He began his surgical residency at Harvard Medical and completed same at St. Luke's Medical Center in Cleveland and a colorectal fellowship at the University of Texas in Houston, Texas. His interest in wound healing developed early in his practice career due to confronting the vast needs of wounded patients with bowel leakage contaminating their wounds. This led to the exposure of long term care facilities and to patients with chronic wounds. He became an early adaptor of the principals of moist healing and of modifying the wound environment of chronic wounds to effect healing.

He committed to the development of a wound care service by establishing a specialty wound practice which today is know as Northeast Surgical Wound Care, Inc., the largest outpatient wound care provider in Ohio in terms of revenue, visits and centers served. His present focus at NESWC, Inc. is the development of care protocols that improve care and outcomes through evidence based standardization.

Richard Simman MD, CWS, FACS, FACCWS
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon & Certified Wound Specialist
offering Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Richard Simman has been practicing in the Dayton, Ohio area for over 7 years. He has convenient offices at Sycamore Hospital in Miamisburg, Samaritan North Health Center in Dayton.  Dr. Simman offers a variety of plastic, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgery services.

Dr. Simman's background includes training in General Surgery at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York, NY, and a Plastic Surgery Residency at Providence Hospital and Medical Centers in Southfield, MI under the supervision of Dr. Ian T. Jackson, a world famous plastic surgeon. In addition, Ohio Plastic Surgeon Dr. Simman completed a Burn Fellowship followed by a Research Fellowship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Surgery and the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.

Donato J. Borrillo, M.D., M.S., J.D., M.S. is a 1994 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH and 1986 graduate of Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. He is a practicing physician, a 1990 graduate of the State of University of NY at Buffalo School of Medicine. He interned at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, and completed residency at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, (Board Certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine). Dr. Borrillo has a Masters of Science degree in Immunology from Roswell Park Center Institute, Buffalo, NY and a second Masters of Science degree in Aerospace Medicine, from Wright State University, Dayton, OH. After his medical residency, he practiced as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force from 1996 through 2001 and was assigned to the Special operations Command in Europe and Africa. During his service, he attended to the physiologic concerns of Special Forces pilots, SEALS, Army Rangers and Air Force Pararescue personnel. He was Honorably Discharge as a Major. His is a commercial multi-engine, and IRF rated pilot.

Dr. Borrillo’s current medical practice includes wound care and hyperbarics in the Northwest, Ohio and Southeast Michigan region. Professional associations include the Ohio State Bar Association, Toledo Bar Association and he is an Associate Fellow, Aerospace Medical Association, member of the Editorial Board of Aviat, Space & Envirn Med, and President of the Midwest Chapter of Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society. He had spoken before the Toledo Bar Association and at numerous continuing medical and legal education seminars.

Arti Balar Masturzo, MD, CWS, ABPM/UHM has been practicing internal medicine and wound care in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky area since 2004. She is certified in wound care by both the National Alliance of Wound Care and the American Academy of Wound Management. She is also board certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr. Masturzo graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of South Florida in 1997 and completed her medical degree at the USF College of Medicine in 2001. She began her internal medicine residency at the University Hospital of Cincinnati in 2001 and immediately fell in love with the community.

Dr. Masturzo was named Medical Director of the Wound Care Center at Drake Hospital in 2004, where she was instrumental in the development of its comprehensive wound program. At Drake, she developed and led the hyperbaric program for the treatment of chronic wounds. In 2006, Dr. Masturzo accepted the position of Medical Director of hyperbarics at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, where she continues to grow the program.