@USC Podiatric Surgeon Armstrong Named Inaugural @UTHealthSA Lawrence B. Harkless Leadership Awardee #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot @ALPSlimb @USC @USC_vascular @ResearchatUSC @KeckSchool_USC @APMA

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC) became the inaugural recipient of the University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio’s Lawrence B. Harkless Leadership Award.
The award, created in honor of long-time podiatric surgeon and academic Lawrence B. Harkless, was created to recognize people who have dedicated themselves to mentoring women and men in limb preservation. Dr. Harkless attended the last segregated high school class in Tatum, Texas, to go on to mentor hundreds of women and men who are now themselves in positions to guide another generation. The award was part of a keynote lecture at the inaugural UT Great Debates and Update in the Diabetic Foot held this weekend in San Antonio. The program was co-chaired by Lee C. Rogers, DPM, Chief of Podiatric Surgery at the UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, and Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH, Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. UT Southwestern.