Alberto Piaggesi MD

Alberto Piaggesi was born in Pisa on March 2nd, 1956. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Medical School of the University of Pisa where he then specialized Both in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism. His post-graduate education included stages and masters at the Department of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh, At the Department of Vascular Surgery of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital of Boston, and at the Department of Diabetology of the University of Geneve.

Since 1991 he held a post of Consultant at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the University of Pisa, where he is responsible for the lower limb complications unit and where he set up and manages the diabetic foot clinic which is now the referral center for Tuscany and central Italy, as well as part of the European network for the lower limb complications management (Eurodiale).