Vivian K. Wong, PhD, RN, CNS, CWON is a Professor and Program Director of the Wound and Ostomy Education Program in the Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San José State University. She worked as a med-surg nurse for a number of years before taking the WOC specialty course. Afterwards, she worked for 10 years as a clinical nurse specialist in both medical-surgical and wound and ostomy nursing. She earned her BSN from the University of Texas at Arlington, her MSN in adult health nursing at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a PhD in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She was a graduate of the Emory University Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Education Program. Her research interest is in pressure ulcer prevention.