Scientific
The World Diabetic Foot Day will comprise of diverse parallel sessions, and there will be a big focus on state-of-art research within diabetic foot diseases.
The programme will include the following elements:
- Talks, panel discussions, poster presentations
- Workshop and Q&A sessions
- Debates, strategy planning, KOL forecasting of what will be the future of DF
The Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee consists of international experts from each organising association.

Jan Apelqvist, IWGDF
Senior Consultant and Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital of Skåne, Sweden

Luca Dalla Paola, ADFS
Full Professor, Department of Medical Sciences, Ferrara University School of Medicine
Chief, Diabetic Foot Department, Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care&Research, Cotignola, Italy

Klaus Kirketerp-Møller, DFSG
MD, Faculty of Health, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Speciality of Orthopaedic Surgery

José Luis Lázaro Martínez, D-Foot International
Master of Science Degree on Health’s Research
University of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain

Nikolaos Papanas, DFSG
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine-Diabetes Mellitus, Dermatology University of Thrance, Greece

Nina Petrova, D-Foot International
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King's College London and Research Fellow in the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King's College Hospital, London

Alberto Piaggesi, EWMA
Director of the Diabetic Foot Section of the Pisa University Hospital
Dept of Endocrinology and Metabolism University of Pisa, Italy

Nicolaas Schaper, IWGDF
Internist-endocrinologist, Dept. Internal Medicine
Div. Endocrinology, Maastricht University Hospital, Netherlands