Foot focus

When the Westside Podiatry Center in Skaneateles welcomed Daniel Ferreras, D.P.M., to its staff one month ago, they welcomed an invaluable source of information on a massive medical plight.

Ferreras completed his fellowship at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers in diabetic wound care, an area of podiatry vital to a population with a rising rate of developing diabetes. More than 20.8 million Americans are diabetic, with 54 million additional Americans falling into a pre-diabetic category marked by high blood sugar.

“It's just staggering,” Ferreras said of the statistics.