Prof. Alberto Piaggesi graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Medical School of the University of Pisa where he then specialized both in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Since 1991 he held a post of Consultant at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the University of Pisa, where he is the director of the Diabetic Foot Section (DFS), a third-level reference Centre for Tuscany and central Italy.
He is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the medical and podiatry school of the University of Pisa and professor of lower limb complications management at the school of specialization in Endocrinology and Metabolism of the University of Pisa.
He authored more than 100 papers, books and book chapters on many aspect of the diabetic foot on peer-review international journals, is a referee for a number of the most important journals and he is in the editorial board of the International Consensus Guidelines for the management of the diabetic foot.
He served as Scientific Recorder and then President of the European Wound management Association (EWMA) and he’s been a founder of the International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons (i-ADFS)
He is the scientific responsible and organizer of the Italian and the International residential course on the management on lower limb complications of diabetes and he trained more than 1000 among Diabetologist, Podologist, Nurses and Ortothists in 25 years of continuative editions.