This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating our wonderful women in wound care by highlighting and sharing their experiences.
We asked Lorraine, Angie, Emma, and Rachel about what drives them, their time at Urgo Medical, and more.
Lorraine Grothier
Medical Affairs Director
Time with Urgo: 7 years
Q) What do you love most about your role?
A) Being able to empower and support clinicians to drive and standardise excellence in wound care.
Q) What part of Urgo Medical’s mission is most important to you?
A) ‘Because we care’ – It is fundamental to our purpose.
Q) What advice would you give to your younger self?
A) Don’t accept what others believe is your path, be brave and make your own journey.
Q) Who is the woman that you would most want to have a drink with?
A) My mother – she made me who I am.
Angie Farmer
Clinical Specialist
Time with Urgo: 5 years
Q) What do you love most about your role?
A) The variety of people I meet, being able to share knowledge and experiences to offer the best treatment and support for clinicians and patients, and seeing the outcomes of the treatments and the change it makes.
Q) What part of Urgo Medical’s mission is most important to you?
A) Healing people, improving their quality of life, showing care and understanding to patient’s needs.
Q) What advice would you give to your younger self?
A) Don’t wait to complete your ‘bucket’ list, and don’t fret the small stuff, its not as bad as you think! And wear Sunscreen!
Q) Who is the woman that you would most want to have a drink with?
A) My Mum. She showed me strength, determination and love in the hardest times of her life, raised 3 children and battled a disease for many years. Throughout that she still showed all the above and never faltered. She also loved a decent brew!
Emma Taylor
Industrial Operations Manager
Time with Urgo: 3 years
Q) What do you love most about your role?
A) Every day is different so this role never gets boring! The most rewarding moments are when our customers visit our UK manufacturing site, I love seeing my Industry Team colleagues interact with customers on the shop floor and show them how much care goes into the manufacture of our bandages and medical hosiery.
Q) What part of Urgo Medical’s mission is most important to you?
A) Healing people – the knowledge that our products work together to reduce healing times and ensure that people with wounds can get back to their usual activities more quickly is a huge motivator for me.
Q) What advice would you give to your younger self?
A) Be bold and believe in yourself.
Q) Who is the woman that you would most want to have a drink with?
A) This is a tough one and a split decision between Baroness Martha Lane-Fox of Soho and Patti Snowdon-James.
As co-founder of lastminute.com, Baroness Lane-Fox made it big in tech at a time that it was unusual to see women doing so, she went on to become the youngest female member of the house of lords in 2013 as well as becoming chancellor of the Open University. She continues to advocate for digital literacy, women’s rights and education. I was lucky enough to hear Baroness Lane-Fox speak at my Open University graduation ceremony.
Patti Snwdon-James started a small chain of pharmacies (including one in Shepshed, the home of Urgo UK&I) whilst raising a young family, she was a formidable and dynamic woman, she worked in imaginative ways to disrupt the market and ensure that she secured strategically important sites and contracts when competing against large pharmacy chains. Patti was uncompromising in her belief in putting the customer experience first, my first customer-facing role was as a Saturday Assistant in one of Patti’s pharmacies, this “customer first” attitude fed my drive for problem-solving that still endures today.
Rachel Winterton
Regional Business Manager
Time with Urgo: 8 years
Q) What do you love most about your role?
A) My team! I am very lucky to have the most amazing, passionate team, who are so focused on supporting clinicians to help improve the lives of patients.
Q) What part of Urgo Medical’s mission is most important to you?
A) Healing People – to support clinicians with innovative treatments that contribute to improving patients’ lives. We hear so often about patients whose lives have been deeply affected from having a wound, and when you’re told a patient has healed and how their life has changed for the better, it is so rewarding!
Q) What advice would you give to your younger self?
A) Embrace the risk of being judged.