Keck Medicine of University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Armstrong is Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California. Dr. Armstrong holds a Masters of Science in Tissue Repair and Wound Healing from the University of Wales College of Medicine and a PhD from the University of Manchester College of Medicine, where he was appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine. He is founder and co-Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA).
Dr. Armstrong has produced more than 640 peer-reviewed research papers in dozens of scholarly medical journals and over 100 book chapters. He is co-Editor of the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot.
Dr. Armstrong is one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors and has received the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage. In 2008, he was the 25th and youngest member elected into the Podiatric Medicine Hall of Fame. He was the first surgeon to be named University Distinguished Outreach Professor at the University of Arizona, the first podiatric surgeon to become a member of the Society of Vascular Surgery, and the first US podiatric surgeon named fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow. He is the youngest recipient of the ADA’s Roger Pecoraro Award.
He sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee and is the US appointed delegate to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF). He is the founder and co-chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con).
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
2:10 PM – 2:20 PM ET