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Professor Fran Game

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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby

Prof. Fran Game has been a consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust since 2011. She is the Clinical Director of R&D and the Derby Clinical Trials Support Unit, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. Her main clinical and research interest is the Diabetic Foot, leading a number of multicentre/multinational trials in this field. She chaired both the Classification and Wound Healing subgroups of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot for the 2023 global guidelines, and has been the Chair of the Editorial Board of this organisation since January 2024.
She is the current Clinical Lead for the National Diabetes Footcare Audit of England and Wales and has been one of the NHS England Co-Clinical Regional Directors for Diabetes (Midlands), since May 2018. She was awarded the Edward James Olmos Award for Amputation Prevention by the American Limb Preservation Society in 2021 and the Roger W. Pecoraro award by the American Diabetes Association 2024. She received the 2025 MedStar Georgetown Distinguished Achievement Award in Diabetic Limb Salvage at the Diabetic Limb Salvage conference, Washington DC in April 2025.