The Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) has a broad social interest in helping measure and manage how people move through their world. We envision a future where we can help people stay active and informed as they move through that world. We believe that every day we see glimpses of the future in our clinics, in the operating room, in our laboratories, and in our community. We want to help to leave a legacy of improving mobility and stability, worldwide. To do that, we work on a daily basis on projects that create more activity-rich and ulcer-free days for people, worldwide.
Our goal is to eliminate amputation in people with diabetes over the next generation. At its core, SALSA is a collaborative clinical and research alliance that is dedicated to advancing care of the diabetic foot and preventing amputations in North America and worldwide. SALSA is the most productive research unit of its kind in the world and, with more than 10,000 patient visits per annum is one of the busiest such clinical units.
Our central unit is located at the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
David G. Armstrong (co-Founder) 
Vincent L. Rowe (co-Director) 
Laura Shin, SALSA Program Director 
Tanzim Khan 
Stephanie Woelfel, Physical Therapy 
Karen D’Huyvetter, SALSA Research Program Director 
Gregory A. Magee, Vascular Surgery 
Ken R. Ziegler, Vascular Surgery 
Charles DuBourdieu, O&P R&D, Rancho Los Amigos 
Charles Liu, Neurosurgery, Neurorestoration 
Bill Padula, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy 
Jill McNitt-Gray (HAPPI Consortium) 
David Raichlen, Anthropology 
Jason Garcia, Coordinat/or of SALSA Clincs 
Andrea Robles, SALSA Program Coordinator 
Will Mehring, MS2, KSOM, USC 
Mark Swerdlow, MS3, KSOM, USC 
Fred A. Weaver, Chief, Vascular Surgery 
Grant Murphy, MS3, KSOM, USC
Hello I’m a vascular surgeon from Argentina work in a diabetic foot interdisciplinary center “Centro Argentino de Pie Diabetico y enfermedades vasculares”
Since 2000 me and my group try to heal and study these patients.
I like to get information and knowledge from your group and share our little experience.
Thank you
Dr Gustavo Depaoli
Vascular Surgeon
Dr. Depaoli: Many thanks for the note. We welcome you to the SALSA / DFBlog family!
Hello, i really apreciate your team.İ am Dr.Maksat Boobekov from Turkey,your team works inspire me in podiatry science. Keep following you .
Keep up the excellent work and research that you and your great team are doing in this worldwide epidemic. The awareness and research will make contributions to improve not only the health of our patients but also assist the multidisciplinary healthcare staff who work in this space.
I am a double amputee that needs some help finding a set of surgeons to get me new legs,please call me at 929 457 5886 or 917 597 6239.
Mr. King: Many thanks for the note. Feel free to email me at david.armstrong@med.usc.edu and I’m happy to see if we can explore your progress.