Professor Andrew Boulton 

As director of the DIALEX (Diabetes Lower Extremity) Research Group I am responsible for:

* Planning clinical research into diabetic complications.

* Developing collaborative research with colleagues in Europe and

North America.

* Running undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in diabetes and

its complications

* In these roles I work closely with Dr Rayaz A Malik, Senior

Lecturer in Medicine.

Andrew Boulton is member of the British, European and American Diabetes Associations. From 1995 - 2002 he was Director of Postgraduate Education for the EASD, from 2002 to 2004 he was Programme Chair/Honorary Secretary of the EASD and he is currently Director of International Postgraduate Education with the EASD/ADA and IDF.

I am a member of the Institute of Health Sciences Diabetes and Obesity Research Network. My research interests in this area include:

• Clinical Research in Diabetic Foot: The Manchester DIALEX (Diabetes Lower Extremity Research Group) has been actively researching clinical aspects of diabetic foot disease over the last 15 years. Over 120 peer reviewed research articles have been published as a result of research in this group.
• Clinical Aspects of Diabetic Somatic Peripheral Neuropathy: Again the DIALEX Research Group has been active in researching clinical aspects of the pathogenesis and treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
• Clinical Research in Diabetic Nephropathy: In collaboration with Professor Gokal, the Group has been active in researching clinical aspects of the management of diabetic nephropathy at all stages.

Keywords

• Epidemiology
• Micro-vascular problems (eg nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy)

• Case control studies
• Clinical Trials
• Epidemiology
• Randomised control trials/experimental studies
• Systematic reviews/evidence based practise

Undergraduate

Andrew Boulton regularly teaches undergraduate medical students in their clinical years and has supervised many students in reseach projects.

Postgraduate

Andrew has successfully supervised around 15 PhD and MD Students. He is currently supervising 2 PhD and one MD students.

Professor Boulton has been Chairman of Postgraduate Education for the European Diabetes Association and Honorary Secretary / Programme Chair for the EASD in the last 5 years. Strong links with American centres in addition.

He is currently Professor of Medicine (Diabetes) at the University of Manchester and Consultant Physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

He has published over 300 peer review papers and currently holds major grants as listed above.

Andrew was the first Awardee of the International Award into Diabetic Foot Research (1995) and has also received the Castelli-Pedroli Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (2003) and the Roger Pecoraro Award from the American Diabetes Association (1996).

More recently he was awarded (2005) the Edward Olmos Award for Advocacy in the Prevention of Amputation in Diabetes.

Andrew was formally Editor of Diabetic Medicine (1991- 1995) and is currently an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care as well as being on the Editorial Board of Current Diabetes reports and the International Diabetes Monitor. He currently is the advisor to the NIH for the EDIC Study (Epidemiology of Diabetes and its Complications), the follow up of the DCTT Study.

From 2002 to 2004 Andrew Boulton was Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami and he still holds a visiting professorship to the Diabetes Research Institute of that University.

Andrew Boulton graduated with honours in medicine from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MB, BS, 1976) and subsequently obtained the MRCP in

1979 and he was elected FRCP in 1992. He obtained his MD in complications of diabetes from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985. After clinical training in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and later Miami, Andrew Boulton was appointed Senior Lecturer in Medicine/Consultant Physician at the University of Manchester in 1986.

He was subsequently promoted to Reader and then in 1995 to Professor of Medicine.

Collaborators

• Professor David Armstrong
  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, Chicago, USA
• Professor Howard Leventhal
  Rutgers State University of New Jersey. USA
• Professor John Bowker & Professor Mark Mizel
  School of Orthopaedics, University of Miami, Florida, USA
• Professor Robert Gailey
  School of Orthopaedics, University of Miami, Florida, USA
• Professor Robert Kirsner
  University of Miami, Department of Dermatology, Florida, USA