The third annual RSM diabetic foot meeting

Date and time Mon 22 Jun 2020 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location Royal Society of Medicine
Organised by Vascular, Lipid and Metabolic Medicine Section

Please note: This event was due to take place on Monday 22 Jun 2020 and has been postponed to Tuesday 18 May 2021. This webpage will be updated in due course. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Our 2020 diabetic foot event will bring together experts from a vast array of specialties to discuss best practice in the management of diabetic foot disease and limb salvage.

This event will be beneficial to; diabetologists, vascular surgeons, plastic surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, radiologists, microbiologists, podiatrists, nurse specialists and other allied health professionals in this area.

Topics include:

National and local strategies to improve limb salvage
The need for a multidisciplinary approach to diabetic foot care
Current best practice in the diagnosis and management of foot ulceration
Best practice in the management of diabetic foot
Offloading strategies and the impact of minor amputations on the biomechanics of the foot

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8:30am

Registration, tea and coffee

9:00am

Welcome and introduction

Professor Andrew Boulton, Consultant, Diabetes, Manchester

Diabetic foot disease

Chair: Professor Graham Leese, Consultant and Honorary Professor, Diabetes, Dundee

9:05am

National diabetic foot audit update

Professor William Jeffcoate, Consultant Diabetologist, Nottingham

9:25am

What is the PAD-QIP? How will it improve diabetic foot care?

Mr Jonathan Boyle, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Cambridge

9:40am

A strategy to reduce amputation rates - MARS

Mr Naseer Ahmad, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Manchester

9:55am

Community-based interventions to reduce amputations

Mr George Dunn, Chairman, College of Podiatry.

10:15am

Panel discussion

10:30am

Tea and coffee break

Taking a holistic approach to diabetic foot care

Chair: Dr Christian Heiss, Vascular Physician, Guildford

10:50am

Reducing cardiovascular risk in diabetic foot patients

Professor Peter Grant

11:20am

Psychological aspects of diabetic foot disease

Dr Loretta Vileikyte, Consultant Diabetologist, Manchester

11:40am

Care of the multi-morbid diabetic foot patient in the peri-operative period

Speaker to be confirmed

12:00pm

Panel discussion

12:20pm

Lunch

Managing diabetic foot ulceration (I)

Chair: Professor Edward Jude, Tameside

1:20pm

Initial assessment and evidence based strategies for treatment

Dr Roni Saha, Consultant Diabetologist, St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Mr Arsalan Wafi, Clinical Research Fellow in Vascular Surgery

1:40pm

Why are diabetic ulcers difficult to treat? The biology underlying complex wounds

Professor Matthew Hardman, Chair in Wound Healing, University of Hull

2:00pm

Assessing tissue perfusion – how do you know when to intervene and when you have done enough?

Miss Kaji Sritharan, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Liverpool

2:20pm

Osteomyelitis – challenges in prescribing antibiotics for diabetic foot ulcers

Anne Goodman

2:40pm

Panel discussion

3:00pm

Tea and coffee break

Managing diabetic foot ulceration (II)

Chair: Professor Gerry Rayman, Ipswich

3:20pm

Charcot’s foot – diagnosis and treatment

Professor Frances Game, Consultant Diabetologist, Derby

3:45pm

Offloading: Preventing recurrent ulceration – insoles, gait analysis and future technologies

Professor Andrew Boulton, Consultant in Diabetes, Manchester

4:05pm

Surgical offloading and minor amputations – implications for the biomechanics of the foot

Mr James Carmichael, Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, Cambridge

4:25pm

Panel discussion

Challenging cases MDT

Chair: Miss Kaji Sritharan, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Liverpool

4:40pm

Challenging cases: The diabetic foot MDT

Professor Gerry Rayman, Ipswich, Professor Paul Chadwick, Clinical Director, College of Podiatry, Salford and Mr Jordi Ballester, Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, Liverpool

5:10pm

Keynote talk: What I’ve learnt from a career in diabetic foot care

Professor Mike Edmonds, King’s Hospital, London

5:30pm

Close of meeting

Miss Kaji Sritharan, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Liverpool

The third annual RSM diabetic foot meeting

About this event

Agenda

Registration, tea and coffee

Welcome and introduction

Diabetic foot disease

National diabetic foot audit update

What is the PAD-QIP? How will it improve diabetic foot care?

A strategy to reduce amputation rates - MARS

Community-based interventions to reduce amputations

Panel discussion

Tea and coffee break

Taking a holistic approach to diabetic foot care

Reducing cardiovascular risk in diabetic foot patients

Psychological aspects of diabetic foot disease

Care of the multi-morbid diabetic foot patient in the peri-operative period

Panel discussion

Lunch

Managing diabetic foot ulceration (I)

Initial assessment and evidence based strategies for treatment

Why are diabetic ulcers difficult to treat? The biology underlying complex wounds

Assessing tissue perfusion – how do you know when to intervene and when you have done enough?

Osteomyelitis – challenges in prescribing antibiotics for diabetic foot ulcers

Panel discussion

Tea and coffee break

Managing diabetic foot ulceration (II)

Charcot’s foot – diagnosis and treatment

Offloading: Preventing recurrent ulceration – insoles, gait analysis and future technologies

Surgical offloading and minor amputations – implications for the biomechanics of the foot

Panel discussion

Challenging cases MDT

Challenging cases: The diabetic foot MDT

Keynote talk: What I’ve learnt from a career in diabetic foot care

Close of meeting

Location