We are very excited to have Martin Fox as a speaker at this years annual conference in Mississauga!

Martin Fox BSc, FFPM RCPS (Glasg), FCPodM
Vascular Specialist Podiatrist
Manchester Local Care Organisation (NHS)

Martin works in the first NHS commissioned, podiatry-led, community-based lower limb vascular service, in Manchester, UK; providing early identification, diagnosis and best clinical management of people with suspected peripheral arterial disease (PAD), in partnership with primary care, vascular teams and others.

He has worked regionally in podiatry clinical effectiveness groups, nationally for the multidisciplinary collaboration Foot in Diabetes UK, periodically on the NICE Guideline Development Group for PAD & as the first vascular project lead for the Royal College of Podiatry (RCPod). He contributed to All Party Parliamentary Reports and Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland (VSGBI) publications on PAD, regularly presents and chairs at clinical conferences and has written many editorial journal articles on various aspects of high-risk foot care and lower limb vascular disease. He has also developed vascular educational content for the Podiatry Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) and led on co-writing the chapter on circulatory disorders in Neale’s Disorders of the Foot and Ankle, 9th ed. He has played a leading role in getting the first Memorandum of Understanding written, between the RCPod and the VSGBI, agreeing a partnership approach to tackling PAD in the UK population, as well as in designing and delivering clinical vascular CPD lectures and workshops for the RCPod Vascular and Foot in Diabetes CPD Modules.

He is currently an elected council member with the Royal College of Podiatry, serving a second term and chairing the clinical senate committee. He has been awarded fellowships by the RCPSG and RCPod for his role in developing, delivering and promoting vascular podiatry within the profession and with other key stakeholders.