Dear Colleague,

This is to alert you to a new initiative in Europe, namely the ilegx interdisciplinary diagnosis and management session on leg management and in particular ulcerated feet.

The first annual meeting was in Imperial College in London in October 2008 and we reprised 'The best of ilegx' at the 31st Charing Cross International Symposium in 2009.

The invitation for the 2009 ilegx meeting came to meet alongside the German Vascular Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gefässchirurgie) where there is great interest. However, the ilegx initiative began from a fear of unacceptably high major amputations even today in Europe. Only by combining disciplines of wound care, diabetology, vascular surgery, interventional radiology, angiology, dermatology and podiatry - to name some - can patients expect optimal treatment.

We invite you to attend this event and invite contributions in either English or German languages with simultaneous translation.

We look forward to welcoming you to ilegx 2009.

Programme Directors:

Each of the international programme directors represents a highly relevant clinical speciality

Michael Edmonds,
Diabetologist, King's College, London, UK


Dieter Mayer,
Vascular Surgeon & Head of Wound Care, Zurich, Switzerland


Gunnar Tepe,
Interventional Radiologist, Tubingen, Germany

*registrations must be made by the 15th of July 2009

Simultaneous translations of all lectures are available in English and German.