In the early-in-career category: Mrs Carole Guex (RN), Wound Specialist, Switzerland

Project title: Diabetic foot ulcer patients and clinicians’ experiences of Care Transitions from Hospital to Home – a Qualitative Study

Carole Guex is a lecturer for undergraduate students (BSc) at the School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland. She is also employed as wound expert (inpatient and outpatient clinic) at the Etablissements Hospitaliers du Nord Vaudois, Yverdon, Switzerland

In the senior career category: Prof Rob Fitridge (MBBS, MS, FRACS), Professor of Vascular Surgery, Australia

Project title: Improving telemedicine delivery for people with diabetes-related foot complications using Augmented Reality (AR)

Prof Rob Fitridge (MBBS, MS, FRACS) is Professor of Vascular Surgery at University of Adelaide, and consultant Vascular Surgeon with the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, where he is also Head of the Multi-Disciplinary Diabetic Foot Service he co-founded in the mid-1990s. Prof Fitridge has extensive clinical and research experience in endovascular repair and in the management of chronic complex wounds - particularly in diabetic patients. He is a member of the International Working Group for the Diabetic Foot, as well as the steering committee for the Global Guidelines for Chronic Limb-threatening Ischaemia (CLTI), and has also contributed to the GLASS anatomical staging system and to the ESVS Acute Limb Ischaemia guideline. He is also managing editor for Mechanisms of Vascular Disease: A Textbook for Vascular Specialists, now in its third edition.