Pete Lazzarini is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Clinical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology. He serves on many national committees, including the National Health and Medical Research Council’s diabetes update guidelines’ advisory committee, Australian Diabetes Society’s Australian Diabetes Foot Network steering committee, and the board of the Australasian Podiatry Council. Pete has led many diabetes foot research projects, is a PhD candidate and is currently leading the establishment of a foot disease research program at QUT in collaboration with Queensland Health.