Professor David Armstrong

After graduating with honors from the California College of Podiatric Medicine, Dr. Armstrong performed his residency in foot and ankle surgery at the Kern Hospital for Special Surgery in Detroit, Michigan. He then served as Diabetic Foot Fellow in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Texas Health Science center in San Antonio and was subsequently appointed as Assistant Professor in that department. Following his tenure in Texas, he accepted a dual appointment in the Department of Surgery at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tucson and as Visiting Senior Lecturer of Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom. He then took on his present appointment, as Professor of Surgery, Chair of Research and Assistant Dean of the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago. Dr. Armstrong also 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.

Dr. Armstrong is Director of the Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR). He and his group have produced well over 170 peer reviewed research papers in more than a dozen scholarly medical journals as well as over a dozen book chapters. He is the recipient of his profession's John E. Green Award and 2002 Meritorious Service Citation and Rosalind Franklin University's 2005 Lawrence Medoff Award. Dr. Armstrong was selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors and is the past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the American Diabetes Association's Foot Care Council, and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association.