About this event

  • Date and time Thu 6 Jul 2023 from 1:30pm to 5:30pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Vascular, Lipid and Metabolic Medicine Section

This event is now taking place online only due to rail disruptions. Please scroll down to book your place.

Join us for an important meeting to update clinicians on the most recent understanding, advances and good practice in the management, care and prevention of diabetic foot disease.

The meeting will consist of a series of talks delivered by a panel of experts. They will cover clinically important topics in diabetic foot management, including the prevention of foot ulceration and management of infection.

Attendees will receive an update on:

  • Current best practice in diabetic foot disease
  • How to provide optimal care by using a multidisciplinary approach
  • The most recent advances in management

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We would like to thank our sponsor Biocomposites for their support of this meeting. Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Professor Gerard Stansby, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Session 1

Chair: Professor Saroj Das, Consultant Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Ms Jaya Roy Choudhury, Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Update from the national diabetes foot care audit

Professor Frances Game, Diabetologist, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Designing a regional diabetic foot service: A podiatry perspective

Ms Jane Arkle, Advanced Vascular Podiatrist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Vascular assessment in the diabetic foot: How to do it well

Professor David Russell, Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Leeds General Infirmary, The Leads Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Emergency diabetic foot surgery for infection: Principles and pitfalls

Professor Gerard Stansby

Panel discussion

Session 2

Chair: Professor Frances Game, Diabetologist, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Professor Gerard Stansby, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Update: The surgical approach to the diabetic foot

Mr Sultan Qasim, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

New evidence based therapies in diabetic foot care

Professor Andrew Boulton, President, International Diabetes Federation and Consultant Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 

A case study on heel ulceration and associated osteomyelitis

Ms Fatima Cassim, Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion
STIMULAN ® - Antibiotic carrier for the high risk foot

Biocomposites sponsored presentation

Comfort break

Session 3

Chair: Dr Dimitri Mikhailidis, Honorary Professor, Department of Surgical Biotechnology, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London and Ms Jaya Roy Choudhury, Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London

How can we help the patient to help themselves?

Professor Frances Game, Diabetologist, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Preventing amputations in diabetes

Professor Michael Edmonds, Consultant Diabetologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

New and emerging therapies for lipid lowering in diabetic foot patients

Dr Ahai Luvai, Consultant in Metabolic Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Choice of antibiotics in the diabetic foot

Dr Daniel Weiand, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion
Closing remarks

Professor Gerard Stansby, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Online

Registration for this event will close at 12:30pm on 6 July 2023

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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