Amputation Prevention Experts (APEX) Health Network is your trusted partner in managing wound and hyperbaric centers, but in addition, we uniquely offer a limb preservation focus for specialized care of the diabetic foot. By using advanced technology, we can predict risk, coordinate appropriate interventions, and remain in contact with patients and providers, with two goals in mind; reduce cost and improve outcomes.
Miguel Sandoval is President & Chief Executive Officer of Amputation Prevention Experts Health Network, LLC (APEX). Miguel has over 25 years of healthcare experience. He has worked in the hospital, physician group and health plan settings focusing on managed care, business development, physician relations and finance. Miguel Sandoval was the co-founder and President of Paradigm Medical Management, a successful wound care and hyperbaric oxygen management company, which was acquired by a larger management company in 2014. Miguel earned his B.A. in economics at the University of California at Santa Cruz and attended graduate school at the University of Southern California studying health administration.
Dr. Jain is Chief Medical Officer for APEX and founder of Limb Preservation Centers of America®. He is a board-certified vascular surgeon who has been intimately involved in the growth of office-based endovascular labs (OBLs) throughout the U.S. since 2007. He is a founding member of the Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society (OEIS) and a distinguished fellow of Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). Dr. Jain has authored many widely-quoted papers and has written the textbook that serves as an expert guide in developing and operating an OBL, entitled “Office-Based Endovascular Centers” (Jain, K. M., 2019. Office-Based Endovascular Centers. Elsevier Health Sciences).
Diane Boone is Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for APEX. She is a registered nurse with a master of science in healthcare management who has spent the last 30 years in the field of wound care as a clinician and administrator. Prior to that, Diane worked as a nurse in multiple settings, including hospitals, public health, and case management. From 2003-2014 she was chief executive officer of Paradigm Medical Management, a wound care and hyperbaric medicine management company that she co-founded with Miguel Sandoval. Diane obtained her master of science degree in healthcare management from California State University at Los Angeles.
David G. Armstrong, PhD, DPM is Professor of Surgery with Tenure at the University of Southern California. Dr. Armstrong holds a Master of Science in Tissue Repair and Wound Healing from the University of Wales College of Medicine and a PhD from the University of Manchester College of Medicine, where he was appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine. He is founder and co-Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA).
Dr. Armstrong has produced more than 600 peer-reviewed research papers in dozens of scholarly medical journals as well as over 100 books or book chapters. He is founding co- Editor of the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot, now entering its fourth edition.
Armstrong is Director of USC’s National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHiP) which places him at the nexus of the merger of consumer electronics, wearables, and medical devices in an effort to maximize hospital-free and activity-rich days.
Dr. Armstrong was selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors and is the recipient of numerous awards and degrees by universities and international medical organizations including the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage. In 2008, he was the 25th and youngest-ever member elected into the Podiatric Medicine Hall of Fame. He was the first surgeon to be appointed University Distinguished Outreach Professor at the University of Arizona. He was the first podiatric surgeon to become a member of the Society of Vascular Surgery and the first US podiatric surgeon named fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow. He is the 2010 and youngest ever recipient of the ADA’s Roger Pecoraro Award, the highest award given in the field.
Dr. Armstrong is past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA’s Foot Care Council, and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee and is the US appointed delegate to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF). Dr. Armstrong is the founder and co-chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con), the largest annual international symposium on the diabetic foot in the world. He is also the Founding President of the American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS), a medical and surgical society dedicated to building interdisciplinary teams to eliminate preventable amputation in the USA and worldwide.
Lawrence A. Lavery, D.P.M., M.P.H., is Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery at University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. Prior to taking the position in San Antonio, Dr. Lavery was a full time Professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He was also the Medical Director of the Diabetic Limb Salvage (DLS) program at Parkland Memorial Hospital and worked as part of the Diabetic Limb Salvage team at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. Dr. Lavery’s clinic and research interests involve diabetic foot complications, infections, and wound healing.
Dr. Lavery completed his undergraduate studies at Indiana University and then earned his medical degree at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Dr. William Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago. He completed a residency in podiatric medicine and surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where he also earned a master’s degree in Public Health.
He is board certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow).
Prior to joining UT Southwestern in 2010, Dr. Lavery was a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas; the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio; and Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. He has also served as a staff podiatrist at VA hospitals in San Antonio and Maywood, Illinois.
Dr. Lavery’s research group has published over 320 peer reviewed scientific paper and textbook chapters. His H-index is 91. They have received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, American Diabetes Association, Veterans Administration, Qatar National Research Foundation, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, American Podiatric Medical Association, and private industry.
Lee C. Rogers, DPM is a fellowship-trained podiatrist in diabetic limb salvage. Dr. Rogers is the Chief of Podiatry and Associate Professor of Orthopedics at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He has authored over 150 published papers, books, and book chapters on limb salvage and policy and practice, and he has delivered more than 500 lectures around the world.
Dr. Rogers is currently the President of the American Board of Podiatric Medicine where he led the effort to create the certificate of added qualification program and authored the Board’s guidance on hospital and surgical privileges for podiatrists.
Dr. Rogers is the Associate Editor (Diabetic Foot Section) for the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. He received the Rising Star Award from the American Podiatric Medical Association for outstanding national accomplishments in 2011 and selected as one of the most influential podiatrists in America by Podiatry Management Magazine. He was the chair of the American Diabetes Association’s Foot Care Council. Dr. Rogers is one of a select few American podiatrists to be honored as Fellow Faculty of Podiatric Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Dr. Rogers established the Amputation Prevention Centers of America® while serving as the Medical Director of Paradigm Medical Management, a California-based wound care management company that merged with a larger outfit in 2014.
Dr. Rogers’s work has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and he has been a guest on ABC’s The Doctors Show and featured on PBS’s American Medical Journal and Al Jazeera International’s The Cure.
David Young, MD is Professor of Plastic Surgery at UCSF. His area of expertise includes wound healing, microsurgery, and reconstruction after burns and trauma. His research interests include the molecular mechanisms of wound healing and the epidemiology and treatment of soft tissue infections. He assists APEX with training of panel physicians and implementing and updating pressure ulcer treatment protocols.
Dr. Young is a graduate of Columbia College and earned a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in pathology at Cornell Medical College and general surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then completed an NIH-NRSA funded research Fellowship at Yale and a Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Young owns and operates an advanced wound healing program in Marin County, CA.
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