Lee C. Rogers, DPM, consultant for PAL Health Technologies, Pekin, Illinois, has been selected to serve as chair of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Interest Group on Foot Care for the next two years. Rogers is a podiatric surgeon and director of the Amputation Prevention Center at Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa.
“I am honored to be selected to serve in this position with the ADA,” Rogers said. “Amputations are a common and unfortunate sequel for the person with diabetes. The ADA is working hard to keep people informed so that they can prevent these complications.”
According to the ADA, “The purpose of the Interest Group on Foot Care is to develop national standards for foot care, to develop educational programs in foot-care management and prevention for healthcare professionals and individuals with diabetes, to promote clinical and scientific research into the etiology and pathogenesis of diabetic foot disease, to increase public awareness of the spectrum and frequency of foot problems associated with diabetes, to promote the collection of accurate data on amputations and diabetes, and to promote national and international collaboration between agencies concerned with diabetes research and the educational programs geared toward prevention.”
Rogers has authored more than 50 publications including several book chapters on diabetic foot disorders and has been an investigator on more than 20 clinical trials. In 2008, he published an editorial in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association in which he estimated that $30 billion was spent on diabetic foot ulcers and amputations in the previous year alone.
PAL stated that as the interest group chair, Rogers will be called upon to chair the panels on diabetic foot complications at the ADA’s Scientific Sessions and to write ADA position statements on diabetic foot care.
“We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Rogers on this outstanding accomplishment,” said Alan Angelo, PAL sales and marketing manager. “We value Dr. Rogers’ industry knowledge and skills and know that he will continue to serve the diabetic community in this position with his unfailing standards of excellence and commitment to improving the lives of all effected by this disease.”
