The Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program astatine The University of Texas Health Science Center astatine San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) celebrates its 50th day successful 2022. The program, which includes its objective partner, University Health successful San Antonio and its affiliated clinic, the Texas Diabetes Institute, is 1 of the oldest programs successful the U.S.
Known astir the globe arsenic a person successful diabetic ft treatments, probe and education, the Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program – present portion of the Department of Orthopaedics successful the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine – has achieved galore firsts successful the tract of podiatry, including having developed the UT diabetic ft and UT diabetic ulcer classification systems.
It was besides 1 of the archetypal locations successful the U.S. wherever a full interaction formed was placed connected a diligent to heal a diabetic ft ulcer and dainty Charcot’s foot. All these and different practices are present wide utilized contiguous successful hospitals and clinics astir the world. And a caller International Wound Journal article ranked UT Health San Antonio arsenic the #20 instauration successful the world, based connected the fig of diabetic ft publications and H-index from 1955–2022.
Lee C. Rogers, DPM, FFPM, RCPSWhen it comes to treating disorders of the foot, Lee C. Rogers, DPM, FFPM, RCPS, podiatry part main and subordinate prof successful the Department of Orthopaedics, who joined the institution successful 2021, said, “We travel from truthful galore antithetic specialties, which see vascular surgeons, podiatrists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, carnal therapists and galore others, each moving unneurotic successful a multidisciplinary squad approach. This attack has been reviewed successful dozens of respected peer-reviewed papers and shown to person the biggest interaction successful limb nonaccomplishment prevention.”
The aboriginal of the Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program
Rogers is arrogant of the historic past UT Health San Antonio has blazed successful the tract of podiatry. He looks guardant to the future, which includes accrued abstraction that consists of an full level astatine University Health for an in-patient unit, operating rooms, an outpatient portion and hyperbaric coiled attraction each connected the aforesaid floor. It volition beryllium a one-stop store for patients crossed South Texas to person the prime attraction they request and to forestall limb nonaccomplishment owed to diabetes.
The Division of Podiatry volition big and contiguous astatine the inaugural Great Debates & Updates – Diabetic Foot event, December 2 – 3, 2022, astatine the Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk. The docket volition diagnostic a premix of objective updates and debates connected provocative technological topics, including emerging concepts and attraction options for the diabetic foot. Click here to presumption afloat lawsuit details and to register.
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