Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, FRCP

Georgetown University Hospital Conference on the Team Approach to Diabetic Limb Salvage is pleased to present the 2012 Georgetown Distinguished Achievement Award in Diabetic Limb Salvage to Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, FRCP. Dr. Boulton is Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester and Consultant Physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary in Manchester, England.

Dr. Boulton is a world-renowned authority on the complications of diabetes. As an educator, researcher, clinician, editor and author, his impact on diabetic limb salvage has been global in scope, and immensely important.

"If there were a Genius Award for the study of diabetes and its complications, Andrew Boulton would have won it long ago – he is truly one of the world's top leaders in the field," said Christopher E. Attinger, MD, conference Co-Chairman. Dr. Attinger is Division Chief of the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and Professor at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.

"Dr. Boulton travels the world as a special ambassador for the latest and best approaches to saving limbs," said Co-Chairman John S. Steinberg, DPM, Co-Director of the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and Associate Professor at Georgetown University Hospital.

Andrew Boulton is involved at a leadership level in a number of international diabetes programs. He currently is Vice-President and Director of International Postgraduate Education for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. From 1995 to 2002 he was Director of Postgraduate Education for the EASD, and from 2002 to 2004 he was Programme Chair and Honorary Secretary. Dr. Boulton is advisor to the National Institutes of Health for the Epidemiology of Diabetes and its Complications study. He also is Honorary President of the Diabetic Foot Society of South Africa.

Dr. Boulton has been involved in diabetes research for more than two decades. As Director of the Manchester DIALEX (Diabetes Lower Extremity Research Group) he has been actively researching clinical aspects of diabetic foot disease over the last 20 years. DIALEX also has researched clinical aspects of diabetic nephropathy and diabetic somatic peripheral neuropathy. More than 200 peer-reviewed articles have been published as a result of research in this group.

The author of more than 300 professional papers and six books, Dr. Boulton formerly was Editor of Diabetic Medicine. Currently he is an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care as well as being on the Editorial Boards of Current Diabetes Reports and the International Diabetes Monitor.

Andrew Boulton graduated with honors in medicine from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MB, BS, Honors) in 1976 and subsequently obtained the MRCP in 1979 and he was elected FRCP in 1992. He obtained his MD in complications of diabetes from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985. Dr. Boulton was awarded DSc (Hon) from the University of Cluj in Romania in 2004.

After clinical training in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield, and later Miami, Dr. Boulton was appointed Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician at the University of Manchester in 1986. He was subsequently promoted to Reader and then in 1995 to Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Boulton teaches undergraduate medical students in their clinical years and has supervised many students in research projects and in their PhD and MD programs. He also is Visiting Professor at the Diabetes Research Institute of the University of Miami.

Dr. Boulton was the first Awardee of the International Award on Diabetic Foot Research from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and also was a recipient of that organization's Castelli-Pedroli Prize. He received the American Diabetes Association's Roger Pecoraro Award and DFCon's Edward James Olmos Award for Advocacy in Amputation Prevention.

Past Award Recipients: William J. Ennis, DO, 2011; Gary W. Gibbons, MD, 2010;
Peter Sheehan, MD, 2009; Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM, 2008;
David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, 2007.