Editor Profile

Aziz Nather

University/Organization: National University Health System

Country: Singapore

 Biography

Professor Aziz Nather is the Chairman of the NUH Multi-Disciplinary Diabetic Foot Team since May 2003.

He received his surgical degree in 1978 from University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow (FRCS Edin, FRCS Glas). He also obtained a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1988 for his thesis “Fracture healing and revascularisation of a large avascular segment of bone”.

Prof Nather is the Founding President of the Asia Pacific Association on Diabetic Limb Problems set up in Singapore in November 2004. He is currently the Honorary Secretary of this association. Prof Nather ran the inaugural APCDLP Conference and also the 5th APCDLP and the 10th APCDLP Conference in Singapore.

He was Chairman of the ASEAN Plus Expert Group Forum on the Management of Diabetic Foot Wounds from November 2012 to November 2014. In this capacity, together with the wound experts from member countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka, he produced the ASEAN Plus Guidelines on Management of Diabetic Foot Wounds in July 2014. Guidelines launched in Wound Care Summit 2015 on 18th to 19th April in Phuket, Thailand.

Prof Nather is also a corresponding member of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot of the International Diabetic Federation, The Netherlands, since 2010. He has been reappointed as Corresponding Member for the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot of the International Diabetic Federation in 2015 (20th – 23rd May) and also as Country Representative for Singapore to the 7th international symposium of the diabetic foot.

He has been appointed Chairman of URGO Asia Pacific Wound Expert Board in Sydney, April 2015 (Sydney, Diabetic Foot Conference) with member countries from Australia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to produce education materials for diabetic foot wounds—for professionals and patients.

He is also a Specialist in Bone Allograft Transplantation and is currently also the Director of the NUH Tissue Bank and runs the IAEA/ NUS Diploma Training Course for Tissue Bank Operators in the Asia Pacific region held annually since 1997.

He has done clinical work and research on diabetic foot and on bone allograft transplantation and has written several books on the topics: Books on Diabetic Foot • Diabetic Foot Problems, A Nather (ed). World Scientifc. 2008. • The Diabetic Foot, A Nather (ed). World Scientific. 2013. • ASEAN Plus Guidelines on Management of Diabetic Foot Wounds. July 2014. •Planning Your Research and how to write it, A Nather (ed). World Scientific. Oct 2015. •Surgery for Diabetic Foot, A Nather (ed). World Scientific. In press, April 2016. Publications He has 17 publications on Diabetic Foot in: • Journal of Diabetes Complications (2) • Diabetic Foot and Ankle (8) • Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore (7)