Associate Professor
Peter Lazzarini
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
A/Professor Pete Lazzarini is a conjoint Principal Research Fellow at Metro North Hospital & Health Service and Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is a podiatrist by background and founded Australia's first diabetes foot disease research program.Pete has an internationally-recognised track record in diabetes foot disease research, having delivered >100 peer-reviewed papers, >70 other research publications (abstracts, reports, guidelines, book chapters), >130 international conference presentations and attracted >$5.8 million in grant funding. He has served on many international diabetes foot disease committees, including Past Chair of Diabetes Feet Australia and Secretary of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot Offloading Guideline, and he currently holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship.
Pete leads a small team that is producing paradigm changing new knowledge and health impacts in three main diabetes foot disease areas: developing novel foot treatments, identifying key risk factors, and quantifying disease burdens. His team's vision is to create transformative new knowledge on patient, treatment, and service factors that improve foot disease outcomes and compel clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers to reduce the significant diabetes burdens faced by patients and nations.
Pete is particularly motivated by nurturing the next generation of researchers that will develop the tools, techniques, policies and pathways to end avoidable amputations within a generation and welcomes email enquiries from potential students who are genuinely interested in a PhD that really makes a difference in reducing the burden of diabetes foot disease for patients and nations.
Personal details
Positions
- Conjoint Appointment
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Research field
Clinical Sciences, Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Publications
- Lazzarini, P., Pacella, R., Armstrong, D. & Van Netten, J. (2018). Diabetes-related lower-extremity complications are a leading cause of the global burden of disability. Diabetic Medicine, 35(9), 1297–1299. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223728
- Zhang, Y., Lazzarini, P., McPhail, S., van Netten, J., Armstrong, D. & Pacella, R. (2020). Global disability burdens of diabetes-related lower-extremity complications in 1990 and 2016. Diabetes Care, 43(5), 964–974. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200651
- Bus, S., Armstrong, D., Gooday, C., Jarl, G., Caravaggi, C., Viswanathan, V. & Lazzarini, P. (2020). Guidelines on offloading foot ulcers in persons with diabetes (IWGDF 2019 update). Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 36. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199922
- van Netten, J., Bus, S., Apelqvist, J., Lipsky, B., Hinchliffe, R., Game, F., Rayman, G., Lazzarini, P., Forsythe, R., Peters, E., Senneville, É., Vas, P., Monteiro-Soares, M. & Schaper, N. (2020). Definitions and criteria for diabetic foot disease. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 36. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199920
- Lazzarini, P., Cramb, S., Golledge, J., Morton, J., Magliano, D. & Van Netten, J. (2023). Global trends in the incidence of hospital admissions for diabetes-related foot disease and amputations: a review of national rates in the 21st century. Diabetologia, 66(2), 267–287. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237044
- Zhang, Y., Cramb, S., McPhail, S., Pacella, R., Van Netten, J., Cheng, Q., Derhy, P., Kinnear, E. & Lazzarini, P. (2021). Factors associated with healing of diabetes-related foot ulcers: observations from a large prospective real-world cohort. Diabetes Care, 44(7). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212118
- Shaw, J., Magliano, D., Morton, J. & Lazzarini, P. (2022). Trends in the Incidence of Hospitalization for Major Diabetes-Related Complications in People With Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Australia, 2010-2019. Diabetes Care, 45(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228389
- Lazzarini, P., Hurn, S., Kuys, S., Kamp, M., Ng, V., Thomas, C., Jen, S., Kinnear, E., D'Emden, M. & Reed, L. (2016). Direct inpatient burden caused by foot-related conditions: A multisite point-prevalence study. BMJ Open, 6(6), 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102165
- Lazzarini, P., Crews, R., Van Netten, J., Bus, S., Fernando, M., Chadwick, P. & Najafi, B. (2019). Measuring plantar tissue stress in people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: A critical concept in diabetic foot management. Journal of diabetes science and technology, 13(5), 869–880. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130622
- Lazzarini, P., Van Netten, J., Fitridge, R., Griffiths, I., Kinnear, E., Malone, M., Perrin, B., Prentice, J. & Wraight, P. (2018). Pathway to ending avoidable diabetes-related amputations in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 209(7), 288–290. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130625
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