Robert Frykberg, DPM, MPH

About Robert Frykberg

Robert G. Frykberg, DPM, MPH, FFPM(Glasg) is the Medical Director of DM Prevent Diabetic Foot and Wound Centers, and former Chief of the Podiatry section at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds Faculty ranks as Adjunct Professor, Midwestern University Program in Podiatric Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of Podiatric Medicine at NUI Galway.
A former Chair of the Foot Care Council of the American Diabetes Association and Past President of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, Dr. Frykberg was the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Roger Pecoraro Award from the Foot Care Council of the American Diabetes Association.
He received his Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1994 with a concentration in quantitative methods.
Dr. Frykberg’s research and writing interests have included all facets of lower extremity disorders, but specifically focused on diabetic foot ulcers, infections, Charcot foot, Surgery, and Wound care. The author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and textbook chapters, he has also been the Editor of two textbooks: The High Risk Foot in Diabetes Mellitus (1991) and the Diabetic Charcot Foot (2010). Prof. Frykberg is currently a Director of the Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons, a Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and a Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine.