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WEBINAR 6
Lawrence A. Lavery, D.P.M., M.P.H., is a Professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is also the Medical Director of the Diabetic Limb Salvage (DLS) program at Parkland Memorial Hospital and works as part of the DLS team at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. Dr. Lavery’s clinic and research interests involve diabetic foot complications, infections, and wound healing. He is board certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow).
Prior to joining UT Southwestern in 2010, Dr. Lavery was a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas; the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio; and Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. He has also served as a staff podiatrist at VA hospitals in San Antonio and Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Lavery’s research group has published over 320 peer reviewed scientific paper and textbook chapters. His H-index is 91. They have received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, American Diabetes Association, Veterans Administration, Qatar National Research Foundation, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, American Podiatric Medical Association, and private industry.
Prior to joining UT Southwestern in 2010, Dr. Lavery was a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas; the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio; and Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. He has also served as a staff podiatrist at VA hospitals in San Antonio and Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Lavery’s research group has published over 320 peer reviewed scientific paper and textbook chapters. His H-index is 91. They have received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, American Diabetes Association, Veterans Administration, Qatar National Research Foundation, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, American Podiatric Medical Association, and private industry.
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. In addition to a strong track record in research activities, he has extensive links with global health community, in particular as a researcher, teacher, external examiner and clinician in PNG.
His role as an opinion leader is evidenced by his role in formulating national guidelines, drawing directly on his own research as in the case of writing the PNG Standard Adult Treatment Guidelines and in distilling and interpreting the literature for Therapeutic Guidelines Expert Writing Groups (Antibiotics/Dermatology). He has been appointed to the ASID Clinical Research Network steering group to facilitate collaborative studies in infectious diseases across Australia and New Zealand and the TGA advisory committee for biologicals which is creating the regulatory framework for faecal transplantation. He has published a total of 90 papers in the past 10 years and 8 book chapters, supervises 4 PhD students and been the recipient of >$5M in tier 1 grants in the last 5 years including an MRFF Emerging Leadership Fellowship (2021-25).
His role as an opinion leader is evidenced by his role in formulating national guidelines, drawing directly on his own research as in the case of writing the PNG Standard Adult Treatment Guidelines and in distilling and interpreting the literature for Therapeutic Guidelines Expert Writing Groups (Antibiotics/Dermatology). He has been appointed to the ASID Clinical Research Network steering group to facilitate collaborative studies in infectious diseases across Australia and New Zealand and the TGA advisory committee for biologicals which is creating the regulatory framework for faecal transplantation. He has published a total of 90 papers in the past 10 years and 8 book chapters, supervises 4 PhD students and been the recipient of >$5M in tier 1 grants in the last 5 years including an MRFF Emerging Leadership Fellowship (2021-25).