David G. Armstrong
David G. Armstrong is an American podiatric surgeon and academic known for his work in diabetic foot care, wound healing, and limb preservation. He is a Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California, where he directs the university's Center to Stream Healthcare in Place, a National Science Foundation–funded initiative focused on advancing home-based health technologies and care models. Armstrong also co-founded the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance and has contributed to the development of interdisciplinary strategies for managing chronic limb-threatening ischemia and preventing diabetes-related amputations.
Early life and education
David G. Armstrong was raised in Santa Maria, California. His father, Leo N. Armstrong, was a podiatrist.After attending the Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, Armstrong attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and later the California College of Podiatric Medicine, where he graduated with honors. Armstrong performed his residency at the Kern Hospital for Special Surgery in Detroit.
Career
Armstrong accepted an offer to serve as Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean at Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He later moved to Tucson and accepted an offer at the University of Arizona. In 2017, Armstrong was honored as a University Distinguished Outreach Professor of Surgery- the first ever in the history of the University of Arizona's Department of Surgery.Following the University of Arizona, Armstrong accepted a position at the Keck School of Medicine of the University Southern California's Department of Surgery.
Recognition and awards
In 2007, Armstrong was honored with the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage. In 2010, he was the youngest ever recipient of the Roger Pecoraro Award and Lectureship from the American Diabetes Association. That same year, he was also named the 2010 Honorary Fellow of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists as well as the inaugural recipient of the William S. Baer Award for Advances in Biosurgery/Biotherapy by the BioTherapeutics, Education & Research Foundation.He was the first podiatric surgeon to become a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the first American podiatric surgeon to be named fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
Armstrong is past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA's Foot Care Council, and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He sits on the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee. In 2011, he was appointed Chair of the World Diabetic Foot Commission of the FIP, representing clinicians from more than 30 nations.
Dr. Armstrong has also been conferred the title of Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester College of Medicine, the University of Cardiff College of Medicine, the Raine Visiting Professor at University of Western Australia, University of Cincinnati during its 200th anniversary and the Complutense University of Madrid.
In 2023, Armstrong was honored with the Karel Bakker Limb Preservation Award at the International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot in The Hague. Also in 2023, Armstrong received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science for his innovative research and education leadership that has had a major impact on clinical and translational science, specifically in the realm of implementation and dissemination of translational solutions to illness and clinical problems. He is the leading researcher in the diabetic foot and wound healing as measured by h-index and impact by bibliometric studies and expertscape.
In 2006, Armstrong was awarded the Father of the Year Award by the National Father's Day Council and the Chicago Area American Diabetes Association.