Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Adam Landsman is the Chairman of our Medical Advisory Board, and has over 15 years of experience in wound care, and nearly 25 years in related research. He is a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia, with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He went on to attend a dual degree program in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a Masters and PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his DPM medical degree from Temple University. He has been in private practice since 1992, with a focus on wound care in patients with Diabetes. Dr. Landsman also served as the Director of Research and as a Professor of Surgery at the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, in Chicago. In addition, he has held adjunct faculty positions at Northwestern University, in the department of Dermatology, University of Miami, in the department of Bioengineering, and Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the department of Surgery at Harvard University School of Medicine and is on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Landsman has published 50 peer-reviewed papers, and given over 100 lectures and presentations, both nationally and internationally. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, and chaired several committees for them in the past as well. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, and as an editorial reviewer for the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery. He has participated in 30 clinical trials, and maintains an active practice with the Joslin Foot Care Center, Boston, MA.

Dr. Lee J. Sanders is a consultant to the Lebanon VA Medical Center, where he served as Chief, Podiatry Service from June 4, 1978 to June 30, 2008. He received his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine in 1974. Upon completion of residency training, at Saint Luke's and Children's Medical Center, Philadelphia, he served two years in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines. Dr. Sanders is past President for Health Care and Education, of the American Diabetes Association (2000-2001), and past Chair of the Association’s Council on Foot Care. He is the recipient of ADA’s Rachmiel Levine Award for Service in the Cause of Diabetes (2001), and the Veterans Health Administration’s Mark Wolcott Award for Excellence in Clinical Care Delivery (2002). He is Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Podiatric Medicine and Orthopedics, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine.

In November 2004, Dr. Sanders and his co-authors Dr. Michael E. Edmonds and Alethea VM Foster received the British Medical Association’s 2004 Medical Book of the Year Award for their textbook, A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK. In October 2007, the University Of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Medical School, endowed a professorship in his name, the Lee J. Sanders Professorship in Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention. He was inducted into Temple University’s 2007-2008 Gallery of Success. The Gallery was created to honor distinguished and accomplished Temple alumni, and to inspire undergraduates with their contributions to the community.

Dr. Sanders is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications dealing with diabetic foot complications, neurogenic arthropathy, amputation surgery and amputation prevention. He is a medical historian with a special interest in the history of diabetes, and Charcot’s joint disease.