Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Founder and co-Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)
Founder and co-chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con) – the largest annual international symposium on the diabetic foot in the world
Co-Editor of the American Diabetes Association’s Clinical Care of the Diabetic Food – now in its third edition
Appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Manchester College of Medicine
Produces more than 475 peer-reviewed research papers and over 80 book chapters
Appointed Deputy Director of Arizona’s Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation (ACABI)
Youngest ever recipient of the ADA’s Roger Pecoraro Award – the highest award given in the field.
Selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors
Recipient of the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage
In 2008, he was the 25th and youngest-ever 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
The first US podiatric surgeon named fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow
Past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA’s Foot Care Council
Past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association
Former commissioner with the Illinois State Diabetes Commission
Sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee
US appointed delegate to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF)
Education
MS: University of Wales College of Medicine
PhD: University of Manchester College of Medicine
Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Founder and co-Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)
Founder and co-chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con) – the largest annual international symposium on the diabetic foot in the world
Co-Editor of the American Diabetes Association’s Clinical Care of the Diabetic Food – now in its third edition
Appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Manchester College of Medicine
Produces more than 475 peer-reviewed research papers and over 80 book chapters
Appointed Deputy Director of Arizona’s Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation (ACABI)
Youngest ever recipient of the ADA’s Roger Pecoraro Award – the highest award given in the field.
Selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors
Recipient of the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage
In 2008, he was the 25th and youngest-ever 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
The first US podiatric surgeon named fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow
Past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA’s Foot Care Council
Past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association
Former commissioner with the Illinois State Diabetes Commission
Sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee
US appointed delegate to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF)
Education
MS: University of Wales College of Medicine
PhD: University of Manchester College of Medicine
David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD
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