Dr. Perrin is the Associate Dean- Academic Partnerships for the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University and Chair of Diabetes Feet Australia. From a clinical foundation of managing a high-risk foot service in a major regional hospital, he continues to devote his research and advocacy activities to the prevention of lower limb amputation in people with diabetes.

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 completed her Endocrinology training in Western Australia before moving to Melbourne to complete a PhD under the supervision of Professor Jeffrey Zajac and Dr Mathis Grossmann at the University of Melbourne, Austin Health. Since returning to WA, Emma continues to pursue her clinical and research interests in androgens, diabetes, osteoporosis and diabetes-related foot complications. Emma was awarded a Raine Clinician Research Fellowship to further her research in diabetes-related foot disease. 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.

Professor Stephen Twigg, MBBS(Hons-I), PhD(Syd), FRACP, is Head, Dept of Endocrinology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH), Head of Central Clinical School and Kellion Professor of Endocrinology, Stan Clark Chair in Diabetes, in Sydney Medical School and Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney. As a physician-scientist across research lab and clinic, his program since 1995 has been dedicated to preventing and managing end-organ complications in diabetes, including foot disease through the RPAH interdisciplinary Diabetes High Risk Foot Service, and in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in diabetes. He is Co-Chair of NADC Australian Diabetes Foot Network, plus Committee member of Diabetes Feet Australia (DFA), the ADS Diabetes and Liver Disease Subcommittee, DA Kellion Advisory Committee member, and Australian representative on D-Foot International. Steve has published 250+ articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in translational research in diabetes and its diabetes complications, having supervised 16 PhD students. His H-factor is 61, with 12,100+ citations. He is a past-President of the Australian Diabetes Society and was bestowed the 2021 Kellion Award. He has led series of ADS Guidelines and Position Statements and delivered national and international presentations in diabetes, including at IDF Global World Congress, ADA Annual Scientific sessions, and in many countries in Asia.