Prashanth Vas

Prash Vas (MBBS, FRCP, PhD) is a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology with a specialist focus in Diabetes Foot Medicine, based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and prior to that at King’s College Hospital. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College, London and a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University. 

Dr Vas’s current research is focused on the lower limb complications of diabetes, including the aetiopathogenesis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, diabetic neuropathy (especially small-fibre neuropathy) and the validation of new techniques designed for the early detection of neuropathy. Dr Vas is internationally recognised for the management of diabetic foot disease and has extensively championed early recognition of the ‘diabetic foot attack’. He is a board member of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) and the diabetic foot subcommittee of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA), and has served as an expert to the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot (IWGDF). He is the co-founder of the Diabetes Neuropathy Network, a global consortium of clinicians devoted to raising awareness about the perils of diabetic neuropathy.