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Professor Andrew Boulton
Professor Boulton graduated (with honours) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School and subsequently trained in Sheffield and Miami prior to accepting an appointment at the University of Manchester. Professor Boulton has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, mainly on diabetic neuropathy and foot complications. Among his many awards, his contribution to worldwide care of the diabetic foot was honored by receiving the American Diabetes Association's Roger Pecoraro Lectureship, the EASD Camillo Golgi prize and he was the first recipient of the international award on diabetic foot research. He was also the 2008 recipient of the ADA’s Harold Rifkin award for distinguished international service in the field of diabetes. Professor Boulton was the founding Chairman of the Malvern diabetic foot meetings which have been held every two years since 1986 and are now internationally known. He was also the founding chair of the Diabetic Foot Study Group of the EASD, and was previously Chairman of Postgraduate Education and then programme chair, for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). He is a former editor of Diabetic Medicine, and is currently an associate editor of Diabetes Care. He was chair of the ADA Foot Care Interest Group from 2005-2007. He is currently Vice-President and director of international postgraduate education for the EASD. |
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Dr. Edward Roddy
Edward Roddy is a Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology at Keele University’s Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at the Haywood Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1997 and subsequently undertook training in general medicine in Nottingham and Western Australia. On his return to the UK in 2001, he embarked upon specialist training in rheumatology. During this period, he undertook his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Michael Doherty at the University of Nottingham, researching the epidemiology of gout and and hallux valgus in primary care, in particular, inter-relationships with osteoarthritis. Since moving to Keele in 2007, he has maintained a strong clinical and academic interest in common foot problems such as pain, hallux valgus and osteoarthritis, and crystal arthropathies particularly gout. His other academic interests include the interface between primary and secondary care and the role of exercise in the management of musculoskeletal problems. He was a member of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Gout Task Force and co-author of the EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and management of gout. |
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Dr. Irene Davis
Dr. Davis received her Bachelors degree in Exercise Science from the University of Massachusetts, and in Physical Therapy from the University of Florida. She earned her Masters degree in Biomechanics from the University of Virginia, and her PhD in Biomechanics from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently a Professor in Physical Therapy and Director of the Running Injury Lab at the University of Delaware. In addition, she is the Director of Research for Drayer Physical Therapy Institute. Dr. Davis has been studying the relationship between lower extremity structure, mechanics and injury in runners for the past 20 yrs. Current areas of study include mechanical factors in tibial stress fractures and patellofemoral disorders along with the effect of physical therapy interventions such as gait retraining. She is interested in the mechanics of barefoot running and its effect on injury rates, and is a barefoot runner herself. She has received funding from the Department of Defense, Army Research Office and National Institutes of Health to support her research related to stress fractures. She serves as a consultant for patients with lower extremity problems related to overuse. Dr. Davis has given nearly 300 lectures both nationally and internationally and authored nearly 100 publications on the topic of lower extremity mechanics during running. |
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Dr Harvinder Bedi
After completeing a medical degree through the University of Melbourne in 1992, Harvinder underwent orthopaedic training in Victoria and, in 2002, was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Between 2004 and 2005, Harvinder Bedi undertook a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, UK, under Mr Paul Cooke - President of the British Foot Surgery Society. Currently, Harvinder also works at The Alfred Hospital where he is involved in the immediate and longer term management of major trauma. He also maintains a strong interest in research and the training of future local and international surgeons. |
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Prof Peter Brooks
Professor Peter Brooks is currently Director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute (AHWI). He has held previous posts Executive Dean of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland, as Professor of Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney (University of New South Wales) and was the Foundation Professor of Rheumatology at the Royal North Shore Hospital and the University of Sydney. He completed his medical training at Monash University in Melbourne and then studied rheumatology under Professor Watson Buchanan in Glasgow. He has published widely in the treatment and outcomes in arthritis and in psychological aspects of rheumatic diseases and on medical education and health workforce. |
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Dr Kay Crossley
Dr Kay Crossley is an experienced physiotherapist from Melbourne, who obtained her PhD in 2002 in the School of Physiotherapy, the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral studies investigated the effects of physiotherapy in patellofemoral pain. Her research career has targeted evaluation of contributing factors and conservative interventions for chronic knee pain in younger (patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) and patellar tendinopathy) and older (knee osteoarthritis) adults. Including her doctoral studies, she has been involved in six randomised controlled trial (RCT)s of physiotherapy for knee pain conditions and is now leading a research area focusing on OA affecting the patellofemoral joint (PFJ). Dr Crossley is a research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Kay recently supervising two doctoral students who examined foot orthoses for PFPS. Her other research and clinical interest is with hip muscle function and PFPS, and the utility of the single leg squat as an assessment tool. |
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Dr George Kouloris
George Koulouris completed his radiology training at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in 2004, having completed a combined general MRI and interventional fellowship. He then worked at Victoria House Medical Imaging and also undertook further training in musculoskeletal imaging at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA under the supervision of Professor William Morrison. Here, George assisted in the provision of medical services to all the major sporting associations, including the Philadelphia Eagles, The Phillies baseball team, Philadelphia Flyers (ice hockey) and the Philadelphia 76ers. George has since worked in public and private practice, gaining experience working at several centres and in the different subspecialty fields of radiology. |
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Stephen Marty
Stephen Marty practised in community pharmacy before commencing part-time with the Pharmacy Board of Victoria as Education Pharmacist where he developed competency-based assessment for registration. In 1992 he was appointed Deputy Registrar of the Board and Deputy Branch Director of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia then Registrar of the Board in 1998. He has been a member of a number of patient safety organisations, is currently a member of pharmaceutical packaging and labelling working parties, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University, special lecturer in forensic pharmacy at LaTrobe University, presenter on legislation on the Podiatry prescribing course, and member of the scheduled medicines advisory committee of the Optometry Board of Australia.
He was in August 2009 appointed as the Inaugural Chair of the Pharmacy Board of Australia and in August 2010 Registrar of the Victorian Pharmacy Authority. He has also been asked to lead a working party of National Board Chairs into non-medical prescribing.
His research interests include patient safety and risk management for health practitioners. |
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A/Prof Bill McGuinness
Bill McGuiness is an Associate Professor and Head of The La Trobe University Alfred Health Clinical School. He has an appointment as a Wound Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Alfred and manages a nurse lead outpatient clinic for patients suffering from venous leg ulceration. Bill also provides an outreach wound consultation service to residential aged care and clients in their home from the Alfred. His research interests include the management of chronic wounds, clinical predictors of wound chronicity, and the prevention of pressure injuries in the frail aged and critical care clients. Bill is the current President of the Australian Wound Management Association. |
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Trevor Prior
Trevor Prior qualified in 1983 and, since that time has worked in both the private and public sectors. He obtained a teaching qualification in 1985 before obtaining a post graduate degree in Podiatry in 1989. He obtained his fellowship in Podiatric Surgery in 1993 and in 1994 he established the Podiatric Surgery service in City & Hackney, where he is currently a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon at Homerton University Hospital. His particular areas of interest are foot surgery (including minimal incision techniques), sports injuries, biomechanics / gait analysis, orthoses and diabetic foot complications, lecturing both nationally and internationally. He is the UK representative on the Vasyli Think Tank, involved in the development of Orthoses and is a reviewer for The Foot, The Journal of Foot and Ankle Research and Physical Therapy in Sport. |
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Dr Monique Ryan
Dr Ryan is a paediatric neurologist and Head of the Neuromuscular Clinical at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She has a long interest in clinical research into the neuromuscular disorders of childhood. She has expertise in the design and performance of clinical trials - both into natural history and of pharmacotherapeutic agents - in muscle and nerve disorders of childhood, as well as a research interest into outcome measures (particularly neurophysiologic and functional measures). She has for some years been a PI for the CINRG study network, firstly for Sydney and now for Melbourne, Australia, and is now on the CINRG Executive Board. |
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A/Prof Jonathan Shaw
Associate Professor Jonathan Shaw underwent his clinical and research training in the UK, before taking up the post of Research Director and Consultant Physician at the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently Associate Director of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, where he heads the clinical services and also runs a large research section. He holds a post as Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Melbourne’s Monash University, and is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow. |
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Jason Warnock
Jason Warnock has been in private practice in Townsville since graduation as a podiatrist in 1980. In October 2010, he joined Queensland Health in Townsville as the Advanced Podiatrist for the Townsville Health Service District Podiatry Service.
In 2007 he was presented the national "WT Woodhead Award" at the biennial Australasian Podiatry Conference in Hobart, then in 2009 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate preventative diabetic foot programs in Indigenous communities in USA and Canada.
Jason was the inaugural Chair of ANZPAC (Australia and New Zealand Podiatry Accreditation Council) and resigned from this position to take the Chair of the Podiatry Board of Australia in August 2009. |
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Dr Scott Wearing
Dr Wearing is a Queensland Smart Futures Fellow and Associate Professor at Bond University, and the Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport. He returned to Queensland in 2010, after 4 years as a Research Councils UK Academic Fellow within the prestigious Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and prior to this was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology and a practising podiatrist. His research is focussed on understanding the effect of mechanical load on the morphology, adaptation and injury of soft connective tissues of the body. Dr Wearing has built an impressive track record for developing, modifying and applying novel methodologies to examine the human musculoskeletal system both in vitro and in vivo. His research sits at the interface between engineering, biology, and biomechanics and has made important contributions to understanding the role of mechanical loading in soft tissue injury and rehabilitation. |
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