Episode 96 - Diabetic Foot Disease With Mariam Alessa The Meaning of Health Podcast

We return with our first episode for 2024, and bring you a great conversation with Mariam Alessa, a podiatrist from Kuwait currently completing a PhD investigating diabetic foot disease at the School of Allied Health at UWA. Mariam takes us through her journey which has seen her study in Malta and the UK, before practicing in Kuwait and doing research in Abu Dhabi. Mariam talks through some of the consequences of diabetes, and how complications such as diabetic foot disease can arise, often with quite serious consequences such as major limb amputations and even death. We finish our conversation with Mariam describing the amputee crisis currently unfolding in Gaza with thousands of children losing limbs as a result of the conflict there, often having amputations performed without anaesthetic due to a lack of supply. We hope to have Mariam back on in the future to discuss her PhD findings, in the meantime we hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did!
You can read more about Mariam and her work here: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/mariam-alessa-2
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