Dr. Daniel Armstrong is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Mailman Center for Child Development at the 
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Over the past 38 years Dr. Armstrong has served in multiple senior
clinical, research, educational, and administrative leadership roles for the UM Miller School of Medicine and Jackson 
Health System, and served for 18 months as the interim director of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine. He 
was the founding director of the UM Masters in Clinical and Translational Investigation program, and leads a national 
CTSA program Working Group focused on including individiuals with lived experience as part of research teams. 
Throughout his career, Dr. Armstrong’s research has focused on describing acute and long-term neurodevelopmental 
outcomes of treatment of childhood cancer, sickle cell disease, and HIV/AIDS, understanding the mechanisms associated 
with these outcomes, and conducting clinical trials of interventions (behavioral, biological, and pharmacological) with 
children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and chronic illnesses. Most of his research has involved interdisciplinary
and multi-center collaboration. Trained as a behavioral scientist, he has established strong collaborations with basic,
discovery, and clinical scientists focused on translational research questions. Dr. Armstrong has served as part of the 
scientific leadership of a number NIH multi-center clinical research trials, Chair of the Psychology and Behavioral 
Sciences Committee for both the Pediatric Oncology Group and Children’s Oncology Group, Chair of the NHLBI Sickle 
Cell Advisory Committee, and consultant to multiple federal agencies, including several institutes of the NIH, the FDA, 
HRSA/MCHB, IOM/NAS, and the Executive Office of the White House. Dr. Armstrong served as the Chair of the 
Florida Division of the American Cancer Society, on the Board of Directors for American Cancer Society, Inc., and on the 
NCI PDQ Editorial Board. As Chair of the Florida Biomedical Research Advisory Council Dr. Armstrong is responsible 
for Florida’s research grant programs (Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research, James and Esther King Tobacco Research, and 
Live-Like-Bella Pediatric Research). He is Past-President of the Association of University Centers on Disability 
(AUCD), Past-president of the Florida Association of Children’s Hospitals, and Vice Chair of the Early Learning 
Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe. Dr. Armstrong was the 2023 recipient of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce 
Healthcare Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award.