Juvenile Diabetes & JIA: Emerging Insights for Podiatric Care

Join us for this 40-minute presentation and 10-minute Q&A session on the topic of Juvenile Diabetes & JIA: Emerging Insights for Podiatric Care

Dr Antoni Fellas will present an evidence‑based update on juvenile diabetes and its implications for podiatric care. Drawing on his clinical background in paediatrics, biomechanics and rheumatology, Dr Fellas will explore how early‑onset diabetes affects lower‑limb development, gait, and long‑term foot health. He will also provide the latest insights into juvenile idiopathic arthritis, including recent changes in management and outcomes to reduce pain and improve mobility in children with JIA.

This session will equip podiatrists with practical, research‑informed strategies to enhance paediatric assessment and care.

What we will cover:

1. Understand the key implications of juvenile diabetes, including its effects on lower‑limb development
2. Identify current best‑practice approaches for assessing and managing children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
3. Apply clinical strategies in paediatric podiatry

The Presenter

Dr Antoni Fellas

Dr Fellas is a lecturer in Podiatry at the University of Newcastle and a member of the Equity in Health and Wellbeing Research Program at HMRI. He is an AHPRA‑registered podiatrist with clinical and research interests in paediatrics, sports, biomechanics and rheumatology. Since graduating in 2014, he has worked clinically and completed a PhD that included leading a multicentre clinical trial across major children’s hospitals in NSW, investigating a low‑cost intervention for lower‑limb pain in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Dr Fellas has presented internationally, including at the 2022 EULAR congress in Copenhagen, where he received the award for best health professional presentation. He previously won the 2019 UON Faculty of Health and Medicine 3‑Minute Thesis competition and was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2016. Since 2016, Dr Fellas has taught extensively in the UON Podiatry program, including musculoskeletal anatomy and supervision of the paediatric clinic at the UON Podiatry Teaching Clinic at Wyong Hospital.

Event Details

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