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Is walking barefoot a risk factor for diabetic foot disease in developing countries?
qualifications: MD (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, original concept, literature review, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft
position: Professor
Sri Lanka
I am a general physician with a special interest in social issues and public policy. Currently I am on sabbatical leave from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, where I work as a professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine. My interest in rural medicine stems from the fact that a majority of Sri Lankans (and inhabitants in the globe) live in rural areas. Therefore there is a need to modify or develop fresh models of care, rather than copy from the models of practice developed in urban centres of the developed countries.
qualifications: MD (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts, statistical analysis
position: Hon Specialist Registrar
qualifications: MD (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts
position: Specialist Registrar
qualifications: MBBS (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts
position: Anaesthetic registrar
qualifications: MBBS (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts
position: Medical registrar
qualifications: MD (Colombo)
contribution: designed the project, contributed to drafts
position: Professor
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