The Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) has a broad social interest in healing people and keeping them healed. We envision a future where we can help people stay active and informed as they move through their life and their world. We also believe that every day we see glimpses of the future in our clinics, in the operating room, in our iCAMP laboratories, and in our community.We want to help to leave a legacy of improving mobility and stability, worldwide.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.
Here’s how two chefs in the kitchen can save limbs, help lives and make SALSA.
Our SALSA Team in consists of physicians, surgeons, engineers, and scientists from 14 nations.
Translational and mHealth Research
Clinical trials are a key part of our research mission. These trials are led by UA surgeons, and the faculty collaborates with investigators in other programs as part of a multidisciplinary team offering the widest treatment options to patients. The scope and breadth of the current research includes expertise ranging from outcomes-based research in vascular reconstruction to tissue regeneration to 3D printing and the fusion of consumer electronics with medical devices.
SALSA’s Interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance (iCAMP) includes expertise not only from physician and surgeon-scientists, but also biomedical engineering, microbiology, app development, chemistry, optics, and architecture. It conducts next-generation high-value research ranging from development of intelligent textiles to fall prevention to exploration and phenotyping of the human microbiome.
Location and Resources
The Division of Surgical Research is located in state-of-the-art laboratory and tissue culture facilities. Staff and faculty of the division provide advice and assistance in study design, conduct both basic science and translational research studies and analyze collected data.
Our Team
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Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Clinical Care
David G. Armstrong
Professor of Surgery and Director,
Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)
Co-Founder and Director,
Interdisciplinary Consortium for Advanced Motion Performance
Email: armstrong@usa.net
Joseph L Mills
Professor of Surgery and Co-Founder,
Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)
Chief Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Email: joseph.mills@bcm.edu
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Clinical Trials
Marcy Watchman
Research Manager
Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA)
Email: marcywatch@gmail.com
Engineering, Innovation and Intellectual Property: Meet iCAMP
Bijan Najafi
Associate Professor of Surgery and Director,
Interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance (iCAMP)
iCAMP-B
Baylor College of Medicine
Email: najafi.bijan@gmail.com
Collaborators
Assistant Professor in Agricultural and BioSystems Engineering
University of Arizona
Email: bhurwitz@email.arizona.edu
One Health, iMicrobe, Big Data Analytics
Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Arizona
Director, Genomics Facility Core
Marvin Slepian
Professor of Medicine
Director, Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation (ACABI)
University of Arizona
email: slepian@email.arizona.edu
Associate Professor of Pharmacoeconomics
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Pharmacoeconomics, Database development, Cost Efficacy/Policy Research
Jennifer K Barton
Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
College of Engineering, University of Arizona
Email: barton@u.arizona.edu
Biomedical Engineering, Faculty/Student Engagement Programs
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!