@USC Prof. DG Armstrong gives Gold Medal Oration in Chennai on Goal to Eliminate Preventable Amputations – The Hindu #Diabetes #India @vijayviswanatha #ActAgainstAmputation

What a wonderful visit to Chennai to honor India’s Father of Diabetes Care, MV Viswanathan. He has impacted more people across the nation than anyone else in this field. His mom was a pioneering obstetrician and his children, Profs. Vijay and Mohan, carry his work in mentorship, research, and patient care forward. Please click above for the article in The Hindu.

S.N. Narasingan, Dean, M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, presents the 38th Prof. M. Viswanathan Gold Medal Oration 2024 to David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance, Keck School of Medicine, at a function held in Chennai on Saturday. | Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN


Noting that diabetic foot complications are common and complex, David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance, Keck School of Medicine, said that every 1.2 seconds, someone develops a diabetic foot ulcer and, every 20 seconds, someone with diabetes undergoes an amputation.

The same day, this was published in The Times of India

2 thoughts on “@USC Prof. DG Armstrong gives Gold Medal Oration in Chennai on Goal to Eliminate Preventable Amputations – The Hindu #Diabetes #India @vijayviswanatha #ActAgainstAmputation

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  1. My hearty Congratulations for well deserved Gold medal Oration.
    You are the best
    I have been following you since I met you and continue to do so as you are ‘Guru’ in diabetic foot

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