Vickie Driver

Vickie R. Driver, DPM, MA, FACFAS, FAAWC, is board certified with the American Board of Podiatric Surgeons and is a Fellow at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. She is the System Medical Director of the Inova Wound Healing Centers. Dr. Driver has found treating patients and helping them get better to be one of the greatest honors of her life. She takes caring for patients seriously and practices based on the latest evidence and research available.

She also serves as the Co-Director of the Limb Preservation Center and Director of Wound Care and Hyperbaric Research for Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. She has been involved with clinical research across the globe for more than 20 years, seeking to find the very best diagnostics and treatments for patients at high risk of limb loss. Dr. Driver has coauthored more than 150 publications and abstracts.

Dr. Driver has recently been selected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons-Glasgow, PM and is an Inaugural Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (FAAWC). Dr. Driver recently accepted the position as Chair of the Wound Care Collaborative Community, an important collaboration with the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and has received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Memorial Award. Her career has a special emphasis on wound healing and limb preservation, and she is proud to be an outspoken ambassador for improving care to patients that face the burden of limb loss.

Dr. Driver is a former Professor of Surgery in the Department of Orthopedics at Brown University in Providence, RI, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University. She currently serves as Honorary Visiting Professor at Cardiff University (UK) in the Department of Medicine and Professor at Barry University (USA). She proudly serves as a member of the Wound Healing Society’s board of directors and as a member of the board of directors for the Critical Limb Ischemia Global Society, where she also chairs the wound healing committee. She has recently completed her tenure as President of the Advancement of Wound Care Association and has served for nine years on the board of directors.

Ibraheem Badejo

Ibraheem (Ib) is Senior R&D Director, External Front End Innovation at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Boston. He leverages his expertise in smart materials and biomaterials to support the medical device sector.

From 2010 to 2013, Ib was a Research Fellow at Global Surgery Group of Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for external and front-end innovations and intellectual property for Ethicon Biosurgery. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Director of Applied Research & New Technology Assessment of novel biomaterials. Prior to that, he was the Chief Scientist of Closure Medical Corp (acquired by J&J in 2005). Prior to joining Closure, he held various positions at Bayer, North Carolina State University, College of Charleston. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University.

During his career, Ib has led teams in the development of commercialized biomaterials based products and new technology / products licensed or acquired.

Ib received his BA degree in chemistry from Avila University.  He received his PhD in Organic chemistry from the University of Toledo, where he was the Robert Whiteford Memorial Scholar for Outstanding Graduate Research and a Petroleum Research Fund Fellow. He is also the recipient of 24 US patents with others pending

David Armstrong

David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of podiatric surgery, diabetic foot, limb preservation, tissue repair and wound healing. He is founder and co-director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), a clinical and research collaborative. 

As director of USC’s Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP), he is advancing the latest research in consumer wearables and other health technologies. In 2021, he received a USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award for his method for treating chronic diabetic foot ulcers, just one of multiple patents he holds. 

Dr. Armstrong is coeditor of the American Diabetes Association textbook, Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot, now in its third edition. He is responsible for more than 100 books or book chapters, along with 600 peer-reviewed research papers in leading medical journals.  

His achievements have garnered multiple honors, including the 2010 American Diabetes Association’s Roger E. Pecoraro Award for Lifetime Achievement in Diabetic Foot Care, the highest honor in the field. 

Dr. Armstrong is founding president of the American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS), which is bringing together clinicians to help eliminate preventable amputations in the United States and worldwide. He and his Keck Medicine of USC team are working to achieve that goal for people with diabetes over the next generation.