Dave Dunning

Clinical Podiatrist, Researcher and Educator.

• Clinical Podiatrist in private practice and in the NHS for 45 years. (Now retired).
• Part-time post at the University of Staffordshire Biomechanics and gait lab and Visiting Research Fellow..(1999 – 2022)
• MSc in Sports Injury and Therapy Manchester Metropolitan University
• Visiting /lecturer at the University of Malta. (2001-2022)
• Inaugural Fellow if the Royal College of Podiatry.
• Inaugural fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
• Member of the medical team at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow 2014.
• Listed in the Sunday Times News Paper as one of the Britain’s top 100 Doctors! (2010)
• Chairman of the SoCaP and the College of Podiatry (Now the Royal College of Podiatry) (2014 -2016).
• Member of the board of the International Federation of Podiatrists. (FIP)
• Keynote speaker of the FIP international Congress in Miami USA 2019.

Footwear – A Podologists View

This presentation will look at the history of shoes, their construction and in relation to foot function. It will it will also explore the role of footwear in human movement.