Professor William Jeffcoate was appointed as an endocrinologist in Nottingham
in 1979, and subsequently established a specialist foot clinic in 1982 for the care
of diabetic foot disease. He resigned from his full-time post in 1997 to focus on
studying disease of the foot in diabetes in order to build an evidence-based foundation
for the management of diabetic foot complications.

This led to the beginning of the Foot Ulcer Trials Unit in 2002, which he established
with Professor Frances Game.

Professor Jeffcoate has designed and completed several large, multicenter and
multinational trials and has also undertaken repeated systemic reviews on the topic
of infection of foot ulcers. Other major interests have focused on the pathogenesis
of the acute Charcot foot, as well as the role played by neuropathy in the development
of arterial calcification.

After spending years on multiple editorial and advisory boards, he is currently the
Clinical Lead of the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit of England and Wales (NDFA).