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Prof. Lázaro-Martínez is a Full-Time Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He obtained his PhD degree from the same university, doing his doctoral thesis on biomechanics of the diabetic foot. He is an expert in Podiatric Surgery certified by a Fellowship Board of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Health Research (MSc) from UCM. He is the Head of the Diabetic Foot Unit at UCM. He is the Director of both Research Groups in diabetic foot at UCM and at the Research Institute of Health of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid. He was the Coordinator of the Diabetic Foot Working Group of the Spanish Diabetes Society. He is the Vice-Chairperson of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) belonging to the European Association of the Study of Diabetes. He is Honorary President of Diabetic Foot International (International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot Implementation). He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal Diabetic Foot & Ankle, the Journal Clinical Medicine, and the Frontiers Endocrinology and International Wound Journal. He has numerous publications in international journals indexed in the journal citation report (JCR- more than 190). He has conducted 22 doctoral theses (PhD) in the field of diabetic foot at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has participated in more than 350 conferences at the national and international level.

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Prof. Luigi Uccioli graduated with an Honors in Medicine and Surgery from the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 1980. He completed a Postgraduate degree in Diabetes at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, in 1983, as well as a Postgraduate degree in Endocrinology in 1986 at the Universita' di Roma “La Sapienza”. He is currently the Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Chairman of the Diabetic Foot Unit at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and the Director of the Endocrinology and Diabetologic Section, CTO/SEU, Roma 2 Hospitals. He has amassed a vast amount of research experience on the late complications of diabetes such as neuropathy and diabetic foot. Recently, his interests have been focused on the treatment of diabetic patients with peripheral vascular disease and critical limb ischemia at risk of major amputation. Another area of interest is regenerative medicine applied to foot ulcers, with a special interest in dermal substitutes and their link to metalloprotases and mononuclear cells, as well as to cellular therapy for patients with below-the-ankle arterial disease. Prof. Luigi Uccioli has been Chairman of the Study Group on Diabetic Foot for the Italian Society of Diabetes and Treasurer of the Diabetic Foot Study Group for the European Association for the Studies on Diabetes (EASD), as well as Chairman of the regional section of the Italian Society of Diabetes (SID). He has been a member of the working group that has developed the International Guidelines on Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) since 1999. He has been a participant of the Eurodiale network that includes leading centers for the cure of diabetic foot in Europe and has produced many reference papers in this area. On 16 September 2022, he was awarded “The DFSG LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” by the EASD. He has written more then 160 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has been invited to be a speaker and chairman in many national and international symposia.

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New Approaches For Offloading Diabetic Foot And Increasing Ulcer-free Days’ Survival

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Sicco Bus is a human movement scientist, a professor of clinical biomechanics, and a principle investigator at the Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Sicco completed his doctoral dissertation on the structural and functional aspects of the neuropathic foot in diabetes. In his work at the department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, Sicco leads and supervises research on lower-extremity biomechanics and injury prevention in diabetes and sports. Sicco is a member of the board and program leader for Rehabilitation & Development of the Amsterdam Movement Sciences research institute. He is also a member of the editorial board and chair of the ulcer prevention and offloading working groups of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) on guideline development. Sicco is chair of the study group of Neurovascular Complications of Diabetes in the Netherlands.

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Evidences Of Charcot Foot Reconstructions: Where Is The Border For A Major Amputation?

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• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, London. • Reconstruction lead, King’s Diabetic Foot Unit. • Developed the modern surgical techniques and protocols for the reconstruction of Charcot foot and infected diabetic foot using internal fixation method • Established the ‘Multidisciplinary and Surgical Reconstruction of Charcot Foot Symposium' and ‘King’s Charcot Foot Reconstruction Cadaver Workshop’ course in London • Published extensively on diabetic foot surgery and authored 11 book chapters on diabetic foot • Visiting Surgeon, Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India. • Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark. • Member of Diabetic Foot SIG- Vascular society of Great Britain and Ireland. • Panel member- Charcot International Consensus Committee 2023 • Immediate Past-President, International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons.

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Evidences On New Therapies For Non-option Critical Limb Ischemic Diabetic Foot Patients

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Medical Consultant and Professor at the University Hospital of Tor Vergata in Rome. Person in charge of the Diabetic Foot Service at the University Hospital of Tor Vergata in Rome, Member of Diabetic Foot Executive Committee of the European Wound Management Association and Diabetic Foot Study Group. Reviewer for the Development of Italian Guidelines on the Diabetic Foot Disease. Author of 78 peer-reviewed scientific publications focused on the diabetic foot disease and partly on Diabetology/Endocrinology. The main fields of research are related to peripheral arterial disease, comorbidities, wound care and regenerative therapy in patients with diabetic foot ulcers. Author of the Fast-track Pathway, a tool for managing the diabetic foot in a cooperation between Hospital Diabetic Foot Service and Community. Editorial Board Member in the position of Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare Diabetes Inequalities. Guest Editor for the Journal of Clinical Medicine, MDPI, since 2022.

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What Happens When You Don’t Have A Podiatrist In Your Multidisciplinary Team?

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Dr. Armstrong is a Professor of Surgery and Neurological Surgery with Tenure at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester College of Medicine, where he was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Medicine. He is also the Founder and Co-Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA). Dr. Armstrong has produced more than 700 peer-reviewed research papers in dozens of scholarly medical journals, as well as over 115 books or book chapters. Dr. Armstrong was selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors and has been the recipient of numerous awards and degrees by universities and international medical organizations. He was the 25th and youngest ever member elected to the Podiatric Medicine Hall of Fame. He was the first surgeon to be appointed as a University Distinguished Outreach Professor at the University of Arizona. He was also the first podiatric surgeon to be selected as the President of Faculty at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Furthermore, he was the first podiatric surgeon to become a member of the Society of Vascular Surgery, as well as the first US podiatric surgeon named a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow. He was the youngest ever recipient of both ADA’s Roger Pecoraro Award (2010) and ISDF’s Karel Bakker Award (2023), which are the highest awards given in the field. Dr. Armstrong is the past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA’s Foot Care Council and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee and is the US-appointed delegate to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF). Dr. Armstrong is the Director of USC’s National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHiP), the Founder and Co-Chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con), and the Founding President of the American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS).