John H. Armstrong, MD, is medical director of the University of South Florida Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in Tampa, Fla. In this new role, Armstrong will help redefine how health professionals receive and are evaluated for patient training. Now being built in downtown Tampa, the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) will be a 90,000 square foot, three-story building that will offer training for surgeons and other health care professionals. The center will allow them to train on advanced surgical procedures, such as laparoscopic surgery, and on team-building and communications skills. It will house surgical robots, simulators and classrooms. Some 60,000 health care professionals are expected to visit Tampa each year to take advantage of training at the facility, which also will educate USF students. The facility is slated to open in January. Armstrong has joined USF from the University of Florida, where he was the trauma medical director. A former colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, Armstrong was the director of the Army Trauma Training Center in Miami, a first-of-its-kind interprofessional training program that has received two awards for team training from the Department of Defense. Armstrong is the chair of the American College of Surgeons Political Action Committee, chair of the ACS delegation to the American Medical Association, and a governor from Florida to the ACS Board of Governors. He was recently appointed to the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Surgery. He is a former young physician trustee and executive committee member of the AMA. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
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