Dr Emma Hamilton is an Endocrinologist at Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals, Clinical Senior Lecturer at UWA and Endocrinology Lead of the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Foot Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital, an NADC accredited Centre of Excellence High Risk Foot Service. Emma serves on a number of national diabetes-related foot disease projects and committees including the National Association of Diabetes Centres interdisciplinary High Risk Foot Service accreditation committee, the Foot Forward Executive Advisory team, the Diabetes Feet Australia steering committee and is also a member of the Australian Diabetes Society Council. Emma is also a member of the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) Wound Classification guidelines group.

Dr Pam Chen is a podiatrist and early career researcher specialising in diabetes-related foot disease. Having completed her PhD at UTAS, which focused on health literacy and improving diabetes-related foot ulcer prevention, she returned to WA for new challenges. Pam is currently developing a new multi-disciplinary foot ulcer service as the Diabetic Foot Clinical Lead at Joondalup Health Campus and is a senior podiatrist at Fiona Stanley Hospital, which is an NADC accredited Centre of Excellence High Risk Foot Service. Pam was the national President of the Advanced Practicing Podiatrists – High Risk Foot Group in Australia between 2017 and 2023 and sits on a number of committees and networks relating to diabetic foot disease nationally. She is passionate about translational research and evidence-based practice, was involved with the 2021 Australian evidence-based guidelines for diabetes-related foot disease as Secretary of the Wound Healing chapter. Pam is also part of the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot, serving scientific Secretary on the Wound Healing chapter. Outside of work Pam enjoys a good gin, is usually at her local CrossFit “box” or on a bike training for the next competition, and is owned by a number of rescue cats.

Laurens Manning (BSc, MBChB, DTM&H (London), FRACP, PhD) is an infectious disease physician and clinical researcher at Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH), University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute. An active ‘foot’ physician, he has developed the MDFU in-patient and outpatient services at FSH. He has a diverse research portfolio that includes design and implementation of clinical trials in diabetic foot infections, penicillin reformulation for rheumatic heart disease, peri-prosthetic joint infections and epidemiological studies of lower leg cellulitis in Australia. Elsewhere he leads clinical trials, observational and pharmacological studies in young PNG children with malaria and severe infections.

Dr Lasschuit is a Staff Specialist in the Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Lead of High Risk Foot Services at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney. As a clinician researcher he is committed to improving outcomes for people with diabetes-related foot disease, and is involved in several national initiatives in this area.

Michaela has been a clinical Podiatrist for over 20 years, specialising in the High Risk Foot in some of Victoria’s Major Metropolitan Hospitals. Her passion for patient centred high risk foot care, service delivery and improvement. She holds a Bachelor of Podiatry from La Trobe University and a Master’s Degree of Podiatry from Curtin University. Michaela is currently working at Eastern Health as the Director of Podiatry and the Allied Health Acute and Aged Medicine and Manager of Sub Acute Services. Along with her podiatry roles, she concurrently is the Project Officer for NADC Foot Network working on the National HRFS Standards and Accreditation Program.

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Dr Emma Hamilton is an Endocrinologist at Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals, Clinical Senior Lecturer at UWA and Endocrinology Lead of the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Foot Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital, an NADC accredited Centre of Excellence High Risk Foot Service. Emma serves on a number of national diabetes-related foot disease projects and committees including the National Association of Diabetes Centres interdisciplinary High Risk Foot Service accreditation committee, the Foot Forward Executive Advisory team, the Diabetes Feet Australia steering committee and is also a member of the Australian Diabetes Society Council. Emma is also a member of the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) Wound Classification guidelines group.

Prof Stephen Twigg is a Clinical Academic, physician-scientist translational researcher, Kellion Professor of Endocrinology and Stan Clark Chair in Diabetes, in the Sydney Medical School, and Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney. Stephen is Chair of the ADS Liver disease special interest group.