Here is the link to the Podcast featuring Vigano and Armstrong courtesy of Saul Marquez and Outcomes Rocket. Enjoy! via How Two Health Leaders are Paving the Way in Diabetic Foot Problems with David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director at Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance at Keck School of Medicine and Davide Vigano, Co-Founder […]

Bringing Physicians and Surgeons together with Biomedical Engineers using engineering and medical students as the “glue” is the goal of Health Technology and Engineering (HTE@USC) and their co-Founder George Tolomiczenko. Strap in and innovate!   Here’s the brief wrap up interview.   Here is George’s superb lecture.

A new surgical approach has been developed to address the threat of arterial disease which now equals diabetes as a leading cause of foot and leg amputations. Podiatric surgeons and vascular surgeons from the Manchester Royal Infirmary have formed the Lower Limb Preservation Team, which has reduced major amputation rates by about 23 per cent in the city […]

Autonomous_ID, a Canadian-American tech company and clinician researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California shared in an award focusing on global innovation in Diabetes.  Their program, called “Smart Sole Salvation” won the Global People’s Choice Award. It is a combination of multiple technologies designed to foster improved activity while also […]

Important work from Caroline Fife, Marissa Carter and Kristen Eckert.  

Compelling new data from Magnus Londahl and team. Yet more support for evaluating BOTH hemodynamics and tissue perfusion? AIMS: Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is the most commonly used test when diagnosing peripheral vascular disease and is considered a marker for cardiovascular risk. Transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcPO2), a test associated with microvascular function, has in several studies […]

Cutting-edge “Intelligent Insole” promises to reduce hospitalizations and increase quality of life through biofeedback technology   Professors David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD Charles Y. Liu, MD, PhD, have worked with Canadian company Autonomous ID to develop a portable home medical device: an insole that will help patients with diabetes monitor their health and avoid […]

David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California delivered a keynote address to the 2018 European Wound Management Association (EWMA). The lecture, which keyed on recent works by Armstrong and his team as well as colleagues, worldwide, […]