Dr Pete Lazzarini (PhD, BAppSci) is a conjoint Research Fellow with Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Health in Brisbane, Australia. He lead’s Australia’s first Foot Disease research program and is a podiatrist by clinical background.

Pete has an emerging international track record in the field of diabetic foot disease research. He has delivered >120 publications (manuscripts, abstracts, reports or book chapters), >110 (inter)national conference presentations and attracted >$3.5 million in grant funding.

He serves on multiple diabetic foot disease committees, including Chair of Diabetic Foot 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 is particularly motivated by nurturing the next generation of researchers to develop policy, practices and pathways to ending avoidable amputations within a generation in Australia.