• 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