Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Primary Care Pediatrics

Address:
Healthy Lifestyles
4020 North Roxboro Street
Durham, NC 27704

Appointment Telephone:
919-620-5356

Office Telephone:
919-620-5315

Fax Telephone:
919-471-6930

• MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2000

• Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 2003

Clinical Interests:
Causes, complications, and treatment of pediatric obesity; working with local, state, and national leaders to address the obesity epidemic

Research Interests:
Dr. Armstrong's clinical and research interests are in the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity.  As director of the Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyles Program, Dr. Armstrong oversees a cohort of over 3000 overweight children and teenagers.  Research questions of particular interest include sustaining effective outpatient managment of overweight and obese children in a primary care setting, and factors that determine level of reimbursement.

Representative Publications:
2009 Armstrong S, Bravender T, Bailey M, Russell A, Chung R. Beyond Diet and Exercise:  Alternative Therapies for Childhood Obesity.  Parts 1 and 2, Review of Endocrinology. 2000.

(2009)

Armstrong S. Multimodal Childhood Obesity Treatment: an Evidence Based Review. Review of Endocrinology. 2008. (2008)