About this event

  • Date and time Thu 20 Jun 2024 from 1:30pm to 6:00pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Vascular, Lipid and Metabolic Medicine Section

Join us for an important annual 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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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 29 May 2024.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£24.00 £18.00 £18.00 £18.00 £12.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£44.00 £33.00 £33.00 £22.00

Agenda

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Registration
Welcome and introduction

Session 1

Learning from the national diabetic foot audit

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

Making the most of the diabetic foot service. A podiatry perspective.

Professor Richard Leigh, Consultant Podiatrist, Royal Free Hospital London NHS Foundation Trust 

How to select for angioplasty or surgical bypass in diabetes?

David Russell, University of Leeds.  

Emergency diabetic foot”: pathways and problems.

Craig Nesbitt, Consultant vascular surgeon and regional lead for diabetic foot. 

Panel discussion

Session 2

Update: the surgical approach to the diabetic foot- what’s new?

Sultan Qasim, Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Newcastle upon Tyne. 

Therapies in diabetic foot care – what needs to change in practice?

Andrew Boulton, President, International Diabetes Federation 

Can we reduce diabetes-related lower limb amputations?

Simon Ashwell, Consultant Diabetologist.  South Tees. 

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session 3

A holistic approach to the diabetic foot patient. What can we do better?

Professor Jonathan Valabhji 

What is the optimum pathway to treat the diabetic ischaemic foot? Is vascular centralisation working?

Michael Edmonds.  

Assessing for and managing PAD in diabetic foot patients.

Professor Christian Heiss. 

Management of osteomyelitis. Which antibiotics?

Professor Ketan Dhatariya, Consultant Diabetes & Endocrinology / Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia 

Panel discussion
Close of meeting

Location

Online

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on 19 June 2024. 

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 presenter’s 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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