Jacintha Wilmink graduated from Veterinary School of Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 1991 and started work in equine veterinary practice in New Zealand and the Netherlands. From 1993 until 2001 she has worked in the Department of Equine Sciences of Utrecht University, where she did a residence in equine surgery and a PhD on equine wound healing, both successfully finished in 2000, and she has been teaching wound healing and management to veterinary students and veterinarians as well. Her area of clinical expertise and interest is wound management and she has developped and evaluated a new method for skin grafting in horses, i.e. the Meek micrograft technique. Since 2003, she runs her own consultancy on wound management and reconstruction (“Woumarec”), focussed on the equine as well as small animals. She performs surgery in several clinics on complicated wounds and scars by applying skin grafting techniques and wound or scar reconstructions on companion animals. Additionally, she advices practitioners during treatment of wounds. Apart from practical work, she is often invited as speaker on international congresses, and as lecturer for courses and workshops in the Netherlands and abroad. Additionally, she has been and still is involved in international research on wound healing as well. She is coauthor of Equine Wound Management, 2nd edition published in 2008 and 3rd edition in 2017, and currently working as coauthor on Complications in Equine Surgery. Since 1997 she has been active as council member of the Veterinary Wound Healing Association, as recorder, membership secretary, president and course organizer. She has set up an international course on Equine Wound Management which has been run already several times in a number of countries: Sweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway and in Italy. The the first international course on Wound Management in Small Animals was set up and run in September 2012 in Gent. She has an leading role in the collaboration with the European Wound Management Association (the big human sister organisation of the VWHA), and in the organisation of the annual scientific VWHA-EWMA conference since 2014. She is re-elected as president in May 2015 and still performs that task with lots of enthusiasm. Her mission: translating scientific knowledge to practice thus improving wound management for the benefit of the future and welfare of the animal, the owner, and the pleasure in work of veterinarians.