Dr. Prashanth Vas
King’s Health Partners – Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Prash Vas (MBBS, FRCP, PhD) currently works as the King’s Health Partners Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology with a specialist focus in Diabetes Foot Medicine being based both at King's College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He has over a decade of experience as a consultant after completing his training in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College, London and a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University. Additionally, he chairs the South East Thames Diabetes Physicians Group (SETDPG) and is the current research lead for diabetes at King’s College Hospital.
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 in the management of diabetic foot disease and has extensively championed the cause of early recognition of the ‘diabetic foot attack’. He is a board member of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) and serves 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.
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 in the management of diabetic foot disease and has extensively championed the cause of early recognition of the ‘diabetic foot attack’. He is a board member of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) and serves 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.
