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Foot Forward FIP World Congress, May 2010
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The foot-forward professional team was present at the big World Congress of the International Federation of Podiatrists in Holland, Amsterdam May 2010.
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The foot-forward professional team was present at the big World Congress of the International Federation of Podiatrists in Holland, Amsterdam May 2010. This conference takes place every three years in a different location around the world and gathers about one thousand podiatrists from all over the world. Foot-forward had a very strong presence at the conference in various directions.
The organization had elections and Mrs. Janet McInnes was elected as the new president of the International Federation of Podiatrists (FIP) after Dr. Robert Chelin who was the president for the last three years.
 Dr. Robert Chelin
 Mrs. Janet McInnes
Diamanto Maliotou-Papasavvas represented the Cyprus Association of the Podiatrists since she is the president. Also the Greek association was represented by the president Mr. Loucas Thiaspras.
Diamanto Maliotou-Papasavva was present there as a member of the Executive board of the FIP, being the treasurer. She presented the accounts of the organization during the Annual General meeting of the organization on the 12 th of May.
All the professionals of foot-forward were there and presented their work. From left: Despina Theodorou, Lenia Papadopoullou – Maliotou, Diamanto Maliotou-Papasavva and our visiting student from Holland, Simon Eisses. Simon has spent four months with us in 2009 and she is returning back in November for a few more weeks. We had two pieces of work to present in two different themes. The first was a case study and the second was a study based on Diabetes and the evolution of the disease regarding the affect on the feet (see presentation pages).
During this very big event in Amsterdam, personalities known around their world for their work and contribution in the foot world were there and gave very powerful presentations. These are Dr. David Armstrong and Prof. Karel Baker.
  Dr. Armstrong Pr. Karel Bakker
Diamanto Maliotou presented the work of the foot forward team during the Diabetic Foot Panel.
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Lenias 40 years as a podiatrist
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October 22nd 2009
It was back in 1969 when Lenia moved back to Cyprus after graduating the London Foot Hospital in 1968 and worked in London for a year. She moved to Nicosia, away from her family in Yialousa to create her own clinic as a young professional in the centre of Nicosia. Young girl at the age of 21 and a few months, full of energy and dreams for good work and future she opened the first professional podiatric clinic in Makarios Avenue in Nicosia. Surely patients were not queuing at all for her as she though they would, but Lenia was very consistent and very discipline in her timetable. She was always there and gradually she started meeting people and mostly through the British community of Cyprus. British were always aware of the profession since it was born in the U.K. She was gradually known all over the island and she visited Ammochostos and Kyrenia on a weekly base until 1974. She held her clinic in big pharmacies that the locals knew. Later on she started working for the bases in Dhekelia, Episkopi and Akrotiri and she still does for part of them. She has been travelling all over the island to serve the profession and help people with their feet. The medical world in Nicosia was not very helpful or supportive and the recognition of the profession took years to come.
Today 22/10/2009, she completed 40 years of work, during which she changed premises for the fourth time, every time to a bigger place. The team of foot - forward held a small surprise for Lenia to celebrate her hard work and her devotion to the profession and to her patients.
So the number 40 goes for her 40 years of hard work….
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Free screening of diabetic feet in high risk in Paralimni area.
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February 2008
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Diamanto visited Istanbul, November 2008
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Visit Nesa Orthopaedics in Istanbul, helping to set up an orthotic Cad cam manufacturing Laboratory and training of the people there to use novel systems and combine them with designing and manufacturing of custom made orthotics insoles.
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Students welcome at Foot Forward Clinic
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September 1st 2009
As Foot forward is a very well set up clinic with three podiatrists and three people staff, is well organized to give visiting students the opportunities to have clinical experience and learn how it all works in the real clinic.
Students have the chance to develop their plan of action, set up their goals for the time they spend their and the team helps them to make it happen. They need to be motivated to work hard.
This is the first time we deliver this program for 4 months and our student is Simone Eisses, 21 year old student from the Saxion University, the Netherlands.
By Diamanto Maliotou
Simone’s words
I am a third year student and I have one year left before I graduate. For me this was a good opportunity to see podiatry in a different country. I wanted to see new things, other things, other patients, different cultures and that made me decide to come to Cyprus. In a period of 4 months I will work on different projects, I will treat patients (with the supervision of a podiatrist), I will visit other podiatrists or other disciplines in Cyprus and I will gradually make decisions for the future as a podiatrist! Cyprus is a good place to live as a student. In the weekend I visit the beautiful places of Cyprus and in the evenings I learn the Greek language. If you decide to study in another country and spend your spare time in a nice environment, Cyprus is the country for you!
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