Dr Kashinath Dixit and Prof Andrew Boulton visited the Asian Voice office on Tuesday 18 August to discuss with our Publisher/Editor CB Patel, about the various projects they are doing in India. The main aim of the projects is to provide world class care at an affordable cost.
The subjects discussed at the meeting were:
- Diabetes prevalence study across the country.
- Yoga intervention for pre-diabetic patients to see if they can delay the progression to diabetes.
- Take international brand of diabetic foot care to India and make it affordable to common man.
- Take European Association for the Study of Diabetes approved educational courses to empower our doctors with latest scientific information.
- Rural diabetes care model.
Dr Kashinath Dixit is a Consultant Physician and Diabetologist working at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust (full profile and article, please see page 27).
Prof Boulton is the current President for the EASD and one of the popular Diabetologist across the globe. 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 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) and in 2005, the Edward Olmos Award for Advocacy in the Prevention of Amputation in Diabetes. Prof Boulton was formally Editor of diabetic medicine (1991-1995) and is currently an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care as well as being in the Editorial Board of urrent Diabetes reports and the International Diabetes Monitor. He currently is the advisor to the NH for the EDIC Study (Epidemiology of Diabetes and its Complicdatins), the follow up of the DCTT Study.
