About the Conference
The 2025 Desert Foot Conference took place this past weekend at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. The Conference Chairman, Dr Robert Frykberg, along with Co-Chairs Drs Charles Andersen, Matthew Garoufalis, and Thomas Serena led an impressive agenda with over 40 faculty from around the world to lecture on the latest in wound care and limb salvage. A record breaking 24 Workshops were well received by the attendees, allowing them hands-on experience with the latest science and techniques. The 2026 Desert Foot Conference will take place again next year at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown on December 9 – 12, 2026.
Paul Brand Award
The 2025 Desert Foot Paul Brand Award was presented to Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS.
Abstract Poster Contest
Abstract Poster Awards were won in the Resident Category by Hayley Collins, DPM, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY, - 1st Place, Katherine Gutierrez, DPM, Nazareth Hospital, Philadelphia, PA - 2nd Place and Arthur Evensen, DPM, Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Clinton, MO - 3rd Place.
Awards were won in the Non-Resident Category by Seung-Kyu Han, MD, Seoul, Korea - 1st Place, Arthur Evensen, DPM, Clinton, MO - 2nd Place and Robert Frykberg, DPM, MPH, San Antonio, TX - 3rd Place.
CLICK HERE to see the complete list of this year’s winners and the posters submitted.
Pictured above are Conference Chairman Robert Frykberg, DPM, MPH, Co-Chairman Charles Andersen, MD, Arthur Evensen, DPM, Maria Shipley, RN (representing Katherine Gutierrez, DPM) and Hayley Collins, DPM.
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What Attendees are Saying
If you treat wounds, this is the premier conference. This is a must attend meeting.
Thomas P Broner, DPM
I've always enjoyed Desert Foot. This is probably my 10th time attending. I especially enjoyed seeing the "smiling faces" of the employees of PRESENT.
Milton Earl Penn, DPM, ASCP, CWS
Very good and well organized meeting with a good mix of subject matter to discuss. Also appreciate that different practitioners and different disciplines are involved.
Don Prokop, DPM
Terrific learning experience, abundance of vendors with new and the latest technology providing best practices for better patient care. Amazing collaboration with attendings and vendors to promote best practices and understand differences in patient communities with abundances and disparities and how to better deliver care. There was no sparing of food and beverages to help to bring us all together.
Christopher Japour, MS, DPM
The value of the great lectures on the high impact research in the field of wound treatment and prevention was excellent and impactful. I will be adding to my tool belt quite a few of the techniques presented and pearls shared.
Katherine Lucia Gutierrez, DPM
I personally found the workshops to be valuable and stimulating. The more intimate delivery of ideas and information was easier to digest, and will be more applicable to my practice.
Brian K Constantine, DPM
