David Armstrong

Overview

David Armstrong is Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, inaugural holder of the Douglas Family Chair in Nutrition Research and senior investigator for the Farncombe Institute Nutrition Initiative.

After graduation and residency in the UK, he was a family practitioner in Labrador for 2 years before completing clinical and research GI training in the UK, Switzerland & Canada.

His clinical and research interests include nutrition, frailty and aging, gastroesophageal reflux disease, dyspepsia, functional bowel disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, short bowel syndrome, colon cancer screening, quality in endoscopy and artificial intelligence. He has published widely, including more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, with an ‘h-index’ of 71.

He was President of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) from 2016-2018 and Chair of the Canadian National Colon Cancer Screening Network (NCCSN) from 2013-2023. He is the GI Clinical Nutrition Fellowship Program Director, a member of the FIT-HIPS / FIT-JOINTS Research Group, Treasurer of the International Working Group for the Classification of Oesophagitis (IWGCO), Co-Chair of the IWGCO Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Refractory GERD and Co-Founder of A.I. VALI Inc.

Affiliations

• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Douglas Family Chair in Nutrition and Research
• Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, A.I. VALI Inc.

Education

• Plettenberg Hochschule, Germany 1971
• Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK
• King’s College Hospital Medical School, London UK