Sarah Armstrong
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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 management of overweight and obese children in a primary care setting, and factors that determine level of reimbursement.
Publications
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Rennyson K, Kenjale A, Chiswell K, Li Y, Uchehara B, Armstrong S, et al. Design and Rationale of the pERSonalized cardIovascuLar dIsease prEvention, treatmeNt, and CarE (RESILIENCE) study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2026 Aug;167:108369.McCann JR, Yang C, Bihlmeyer NA, Tang R, Truong T, Zhou W, et al. Branched chain amino acid metabolism and microbiome in adolescents with obesity during weight loss therapy. J Clin Invest. 2026 Jul 15;136(14).Skinner AC, Neshteruk C, Gaskin K, Jones J, Frerichs L, Story M, et al. Assessing Implementation of Clinic-Community Partnerships Treating Pediatric Obesity. Child Obes. 2026 Jul;22(5):275–83.Benjamin DK, Armstrong SC, Greenberg RG. Duke STAR Program and the Pediatric Trials Network. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2026 Feb;31(1):118–9.
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