Matthew J. Davis: The Wound & Ostomy Nurse Turned Medical Affairs Leader Who's Somehow on Every Panel
Meet Matthew J. Davis, BSN, RN, CWON, CFCN. Senior Director of Medical Affairs at Surgenex and VP at Shared Health Services. The bedside-fluent strategist who writes about the pain nobody sees. Inductee, Wound Care Hall of Fame.
Damon Ebanks
Medipyxis
Matthew J. Davis, BSN, RN, CWON, CFCN — The Wound & Ostomy Nurse Turned Medical Affairs Leader Who Writes About the Pain Nobody Sees
The Rock Star Bio
Matthew J. Davis is a Detroit-area Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse (CWON), Certified Foot Care Nurse (CFCN) who became a Medical Science Liaison, then Senior Director of Medical Affairs at Surgenex, and simultaneously Vice President of Administration & Corporate Development at Shared Health Services. He is also faculty at the Driving Innovation in Wound Care Summit and on the AAWC roster.
Here is the thing about Matt that took me a while to fully appreciate. He is one of the smartest, most humble people I have ever met in this industry. I had multiple meetings with him where he composed himself as if he were just another guy in the room. Fine. Great. Cool.
Then I started going to conferences.
And Matt is on every panel. Every industry summit I show up to, there he is — moderating, presenting, or on faculty. And here's the thing: when we're one-on-one, you would never know. He doesn't talk about it. He is not doing the "let me casually mention my last keynote" thing. He is just there. Everywhere. Quietly.
That is a rare combination — high output, low ego. Pay attention to it.
The Origin Story
Matt's foundation is clinical. He is:
- BSN, RN — Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Registered Nurse
- CWON — Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse
- CFCN — Certified Foot Care Nurse
That is a nursing career that spent years hands-on with the hardest wounds and the most complex ostomies before it ever touched industry.
From there, Matt moved into Medical Affairs at Surgenex, focused on regenerative medicine and human cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps). He also serves as Vice President of Administration & Corporate Development at Shared Health Services — a national wound care and hyperbaric consulting firm founded by David Davis in 1996.
What He's Building Right Now
- Surgenex Medical Affairs — scientific and clinical leadership on regenerative medicine and HCT/Ps.
- Shared Health Services — administration, corporate development, and program-performance strategy for a 30-year national wound care and hyperbaric consulting firm.
- AAWC involvement — publicly associated with the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, a rare double signal of clinical and industry credibility.
- Driving Innovation in Wound Care Summit faculty — one of the industry's more selective faculty rosters.
- Original writing — he authored "The Wound Pain Disconnect: Why Some Patients Hurt More Than Others" on WoundSource in July 2025.
Why You Need To Know Him
Because Matt is the person who will tell you — with data — that "not all wounds hurt the same, and not all pain is visible." Read his WoundSource piece and you will see a nurse who never lost the bedside instinct even after climbing the industry ladder. He writes about the biology, the neurology, and the psychosocial context of wound pain in the same paragraph, and he lands on a genuinely useful clinical conclusion: pain isn't just a symptom, it's a signal shaped by biology, experience, and inflammation. That is a Medical Affairs leader who never forgot the patient in the bed.
He is also structurally positioned to be one of the most useful humans in wound care: clinical enough to be trusted by clinicians, industry-savvy enough to move a portfolio, and strategy-savvy enough to write a board deck.
Something He Didn't Tell Me
Matt is affiliated with Shared Health Services, a company founded in 1996 by David Davis — a respiratory therapist, one of the first certified hyperbaric technologists in Tennessee, described on the company's own page as "a father and grandfather" who "would wear a suit and cover a hyperbaric shift when no one else could."
That's the culture Matt is a Vice President inside of. That is not a corporate consulting firm. That is a family that happened to build a national wound care and hyperbaric practice.
The other thing he did not tell me: he might be the industry's leading practitioner of the quiet flex. No LinkedIn victory laps. No conference name-drop. Just — the work, the deck, the panel, done. Then back to the next one.
The Signature Move
Being the fluent translator between clinical evidence and commercial reality. Medical affairs done well is the connective tissue between a clinical study and a clinician's Tuesday morning decision. Matt does it well because he has been on both sides. And because he never lost the bedside voice.
How To Work With Him
- LinkedIn: Matthew J. Davis, BSN, RN, CWON, CFCN
- Shared Health Services: sharedhealthservices.com
- WoundSource author page: Matthew Davis, BS — WoundSource
- Best way in: LinkedIn message referencing a specific clinical or medical affairs topic.
The Legend Quote
"Not all wounds hurt the same, and not all pain is visible." — Matthew Davis, WoundSource, July 2025
Translation: dignity is part of the treatment plan.
Matthew Davis is an inductee of the Wound Care Hall of Fame, a Medipyxis series honoring the clinicians, operators, and builders who move this industry forward. See also: Jack Schlechtweg, John Schroeder, Hailey Caprara.