Dr. Amanda L. Killeen, DPM is an Assistant Professor at the School of Podiatric Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Killeen earned her medical degree at Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine in Miami, Florida, then completed her residency at the Southern Arizona VA in Tucson before moving to Dallas for a clinical and research fellowships in Diabetic Limb Salvage under Drs. Lawrence Lavery, Javier La Fontaine, and Paul Kim. She is the current chair of the Foot and Lower Extremity Complications Group for the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions and serves on the scholarship committee for the American College of PodiatricMedicine. Her work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections, the translation of porcine models of healing to human, the host-microbiome interaction, and the stimulation of angiogenesis.