Courtesy of Dr. Barry Block and PM News
Drs. David G. Armstrong and Lawrence A. Lavery have worked together since Armstrong was a fellow and Lavery was a new faculty member at the University of Texas in San Antonio under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Harkless. Together, they have published 101 peer-reviewed papers and executed research grants funded by the NIH, ADA, VA, AHRQ, APMA, ACFAS, and the Qatar National Research Foundation.
In a list of the of the most referenced papers published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, their work accounts for 6 of the top 10 articles.The h-index is a measure of an author’s publications or how often publications are cited by other authors. Together, Lavery and Armstrong’s h-indices are 58 and 70, respectively – numbers believed to be the highest in the field.