Andrew Boulton

Overview

Andrew Boulton is Professor of Medicine with a special interest in diabetes and its complications at the University of Manchester and Consultant Physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary.  His clinical role includes inpatient supervision of patients with diabetic complications and outpatient clinics at the Manchester Diabetes Centre.  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 Professor Rayaz A Malik, Professor of Medicine

Biography

• Professor Boulton is immediate past-President of the EuropeanAssociation for the Study of Diabetes 2012-2016. He is currently President of Worldwide Initiative for Diabetes Education and has strong links with American centres
• 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
• He is the 2017 Banting Memorial Lecturer of Diabetes UK