Physicians

Associate Dean, Medical Education and Director of Admissions

Department / Division
Pediatrics / Pediatrics-Cardiology

Address
DUMC 3195
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone
919-668-4000

Office Telephone
919-681-2916

Fax Telephone
919-681-5903

Training

• MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine (Missouri), 1974

Residency

• Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 1975-1976

Fellowship

• Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1976-1979

Clinical Interests
Intensive care pediatrics, pediatric cardiac catheterization, interventional cardiology, clinical pediatric cardiology

Research Interests
My current research interests involve gender and race-based disparities in medical education at all levels.  As the Dean for Medical School Admissions, I am also interested in medical education and training for students, residents, and fellows, including quality improvement initiatives in medical education, quality delivery of health services, recruitment of women and minorities into the medical field, and community outreach.  

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician has no reported relationships with industry.

Representative Publications
Committee on Institutional and Policy-level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the US Health care Workforce:  In the Nation’s Compelling Interest.  Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.  2004. (2004)

Milazzo AS Jr, Sanders SP, Armstrong BE, Li JS. Racial and geographic disparities in timing of bidirectional Glenn and Fontan stages of single-ventricle palliation. J Natl Med Assoc. 2002 Oct;94(10):873-8. (2002) Abstract

Johnston T, Dryer K, Armstrong BE, Bengur AR: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery in tetralogy of Fallot associated with abnormal mitral valve pathology. Pediatric Cardiology. In press. (1999)

Ungerleider RM, Kanter RJ, O'Laughlin M, Bengur AR, Anderson PA, Herlong JR, Li J, Armstrong BE, Tripp ME, Garson A, Meliones JN, Jaggers J, Sanders SP, Greeley WJ. Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. Ann Surg. 1997 Jun;225(6):779-83; discussion 783-4. (1997) Abstract

Ungerleider RM, Kanter RJ, O'Laughlin MO, Bengur AR, Anderson PAW, Herlong JR, Li JS, Armstrong BE, Tripp ME, Garson A, Meliones JN, Jaggers J, Sanders SP, Greeley WJ. Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. Ann Surg 1997; 225(6): 779-784. (1997)

Armstrong BE: Congenital Disease and Cardiac Surgery in Childhood. Part I: Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects. Current Opinion (Manuscript pending publication, January 1995). (1995)

Hopkins RQA, Armstrong BE, Peterson RJ, Oldham NH: Physiologic rationale for a directional cavopulmonary shunt. A versatile complement to the Fontan principle. J Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 90:391-398, September 1985. (1985)

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Anderson PAW: Continuous wave Doppler ultrasonographic quantitation of patent ductus arteriosus flow. J Pediatr 100(2):297-299, 1982.Case report in a child. Pace 3(1):96-103, 1980 (1982)

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Sterba RJ, Anderson PAW: Alteration in carotid arterial blood velocity time profile produced by the Blalock-Taussig shunt. Circulation 63-1115-1120, 1981. (1981)

Serwer GA, Armstrong BE, Anderson :AW: Noninvasive detection of retrograde descending aortic flow in infants using continuous wave Doppler ultrasonography. J Pediatric 97:394-400, 1980. (1980)