Kate McGinigle MD MPH
@katemcginiglemd.bsky.social
Vascular Surgeon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Our mission is to ensure that every person receives optimal vascular care, precisely when needed, for the best possible outcomes.
Our mission is to ensure that every person receives optimal vascular care, precisely when needed, for the best possible outcomes.
Join me at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Conference #DFCon, taking place Oct 23–25, 2025, at JW Marriott, Anaheim, California.
Register today: bit.ly/4nI53U6
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September 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Join me at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Conference #DFCon, taking place Oct 23–25, 2025, at JW Marriott, Anaheim, California.
Register today: bit.ly/4nI53U6
Register today: bit.ly/4nI53U6
Just wrapped our first lab meeting of the semester! Love watching our community grow. This year is going to be a big one for the McGinigle Lab. Can't wait to see what we accomplish together!
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Just wrapped our first lab meeting of the semester! Love watching our community grow. This year is going to be a big one for the McGinigle Lab. Can't wait to see what we accomplish together!
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Ever wonder why walking capacity varies across ABIs in those with PAD?
Calf skeletal muscle microvascular dysfunction, not conduit artery occlusive disease, is the strongest driver of walking impairment in PAD.
Happy to share our work in Circ CV Interventions!
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Calf skeletal muscle microvascular dysfunction, not conduit artery occlusive disease, is the strongest driver of walking impairment in PAD.
Happy to share our work in Circ CV Interventions!
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Microvascular Function and Ambulatory Capacity in Peripheral Artery Disease | Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
BACKGROUND: Patients with peripheral artery disease experience walking impairment that is incompletely
explained by large-artery atherosclerotic occlusive disease and abnormal ankle-brachial
index (AB...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Ever wonder why walking capacity varies across ABIs in those with PAD?
Calf skeletal muscle microvascular dysfunction, not conduit artery occlusive disease, is the strongest driver of walking impairment in PAD.
Happy to share our work in Circ CV Interventions!
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Calf skeletal muscle microvascular dysfunction, not conduit artery occlusive disease, is the strongest driver of walking impairment in PAD.
Happy to share our work in Circ CV Interventions!
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Join me at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Conference #DFCon It will be a three-day event packed with fresh insights into diabetic foot care and interdisciplinary limb preservation. I look forward to seeing you there! Register today: bit.ly/3H3meQj
July 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Join me at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Conference #DFCon It will be a three-day event packed with fresh insights into diabetic foot care and interdisciplinary limb preservation. I look forward to seeing you there! Register today: bit.ly/3H3meQj
Honored to be featured in the ALPS Research Highlight Interview! Our gender-based BEST-CLI analysis found women had lower amputation rates than men, highlighting the power of inclusive, protocol-driven care in vascular surgery. Read more: bit.ly/3H2lI4Z
Gender Matters In Limb Salvage: What The BEST-CLI Trial Teaches Us About Female Patients And Vascular Surgery - ALPS
In the BEST-CLI trial, a surprising and important observation emerged: female patients had fewer limb amputations than their male counterparts. Dr. Katharine McGinigle, vascular surgeon-scientist and ...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Honored to be featured in the ALPS Research Highlight Interview! Our gender-based BEST-CLI analysis found women had lower amputation rates than men, highlighting the power of inclusive, protocol-driven care in vascular surgery. Read more: bit.ly/3H2lI4Z
The BEST-CLI trial showed open surgery is superior for patients with complex, multi-level disease. Investigators saw both options as viable, but better anatomic staging is needed to guide care and move the field forward. Read more: bit.ly/3IVxA9o
July 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The BEST-CLI trial showed open surgery is superior for patients with complex, multi-level disease. Investigators saw both options as viable, but better anatomic staging is needed to guide care and move the field forward. Read more: bit.ly/3IVxA9o
New study co-authored with Dr. Paula Strassle: AI reveals Black, Hispanic & Native American patients, esp. in rural areas, face higher leg amputation rates for patients with PAD/CLTI, even after adjusting for clinical factors. Is Implicit bias to blame? Read more: bit.ly/3TsdYfp
July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New study co-authored with Dr. Paula Strassle: AI reveals Black, Hispanic & Native American patients, esp. in rural areas, face higher leg amputation rates for patients with PAD/CLTI, even after adjusting for clinical factors. Is Implicit bias to blame? Read more: bit.ly/3TsdYfp
This is progressive thinking. Scientists have done the work, but are losing their labs and livelihoods. We shouldn't make them pay to share their findings with the world.
Q: Have any of the major journals waived publication fees and offered free open access for u.s. scientists who have lost their grants or funding in last 99+ days? That would be a real way to support researchers and get good science out the door while the bulldozers run amok. #AcademicSky
May 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is progressive thinking. Scientists have done the work, but are losing their labs and livelihoods. We shouldn't make them pay to share their findings with the world.
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Great training opportunity for public communication skills and activities that are incredibly important in the current era.
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March 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great training opportunity for public communication skills and activities that are incredibly important in the current era.
Register here: bit.ly/4l2N6Pp
🧪🛟 science communication sociology policysky health policy lawsky 😷📈
Register here: bit.ly/4l2N6Pp
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Exciting news! Our work, published in Wound Repair and Regeneration on behalf of Wound Healing Society, is among our top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2023! Read the full text: bit.ly/4bFHVAX #TopCitedArticle
Iliac vein recanalisation and stenting accelerate healing of venous leg ulcers associated with severe venous outflow obstruction
Obstruction involving the iliac veins and/or inferior vena cava is highly comorbid in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers and is a barrier to healing. Intervention with venous stenting is recomme...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Exciting news! Our work, published in Wound Repair and Regeneration on behalf of Wound Healing Society, is among our top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2023! Read the full text: bit.ly/4bFHVAX #TopCitedArticle
Did you know women are often excluded from vascular research? This leads to misdiagnosis & worse outcomes. In honor of Women's History Month, consider supporting the @vascularsvs.bsky.social VC4U Award to fund research & improve care. Every bit helps! bit.ly/3Rkq88J #WomensHistoryMonth #Vascular
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March 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Did you know women are often excluded from vascular research? This leads to misdiagnosis & worse outcomes. In honor of Women's History Month, consider supporting the @vascularsvs.bsky.social VC4U Award to fund research & improve care. Every bit helps! bit.ly/3Rkq88J #WomensHistoryMonth #Vascular
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#nih supports our #economy creating jobs, improving #health and discovering cool science & biology. Even #forbes agrees. Let your elected representatives know this matters to you! #academicsky #medsky
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hispanic patients have a higher prevalence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) risk factors, undergo revascularization at lower rates, and have higher rates of major amputation. Read more on outcomes for Hispanic patients undergoing open bypass in BEST-CLI authors.elsevier.com/c/1kkXE2ecZf...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hispanic patients have a higher prevalence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) risk factors, undergo revascularization at lower rates, and have higher rates of major amputation. Read more on outcomes for Hispanic patients undergoing open bypass in BEST-CLI authors.elsevier.com/c/1kkXE2ecZf...
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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
A framework for perioperative care for lower extremity major limb amputation: A Consensus Statement by the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS®) Society and Society for Vascular Surgery. Read more: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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November 7, 2024 at 8:08 PM
A framework for perioperative care for lower extremity major limb amputation: A Consensus Statement by the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS®) Society and Society for Vascular Surgery. Read more: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Female patients with peripheral artery disease are less likely to be diagnosed and treated. This study compares outcomes of open and endovascular revascularization in females and males with critical limb ischemia. Read more: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k2yF_Gt3a...
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November 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Female patients with peripheral artery disease are less likely to be diagnosed and treated. This study compares outcomes of open and endovascular revascularization in females and males with critical limb ischemia. Read more: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k2yF_Gt3a...
🚀 The time for change is now—learn how to make an impact at DFCon! This will be an essential session on implementing hyperlocal solutions to drive real progress in limb preservation.
👉 Register now and be part of the solution: bit.ly/4biw5eV
#DFCon2024 #LimbPreservation #HealthEquity
👉 Register now and be part of the solution: bit.ly/4biw5eV
#DFCon2024 #LimbPreservation #HealthEquity
September 27, 2024 at 4:39 PM
🚀 The time for change is now—learn how to make an impact at DFCon! This will be an essential session on implementing hyperlocal solutions to drive real progress in limb preservation.
👉 Register now and be part of the solution: bit.ly/4biw5eV
#DFCon2024 #LimbPreservation #HealthEquity
👉 Register now and be part of the solution: bit.ly/4biw5eV
#DFCon2024 #LimbPreservation #HealthEquity
Diversity gaps in biomedical science limit discoveries & health outcomes. Despite progress, more work is needed to ensure equity in research, trials, and healthcare. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
September 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Diversity gaps in biomedical science limit discoveries & health outcomes. Despite progress, more work is needed to ensure equity in research, trials, and healthcare. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
Join us on Oct. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. CT for a webinar on Perioperative Care in Open Aortic Vascular Surgery: Recommendations from ERAS and Society for Vascular Surgery. Register today! bit.ly/3XQ7GsH
September 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Join us on Oct. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. CT for a webinar on Perioperative Care in Open Aortic Vascular Surgery: Recommendations from ERAS and Society for Vascular Surgery. Register today! bit.ly/3XQ7GsH
We keep learning more and more from the BEST-CLI trial. One day soon we can use all of this analysis to really tailor treatment for high-risk patients with PAD. Read the full article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jgdn2ecZf...
August 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
We keep learning more and more from the BEST-CLI trial. One day soon we can use all of this analysis to really tailor treatment for high-risk patients with PAD. Read the full article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jgdn2ecZf...
What sets DFCon apart is its respect for its audience—delivering cutting-edge innovations and ideas that foster real, meaningful discussions. It’s not just another conference; it’s an experience you won’t want to miss! Register here: bit.ly/4biw5eV
August 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM
What sets DFCon apart is its respect for its audience—delivering cutting-edge innovations and ideas that foster real, meaningful discussions. It’s not just another conference; it’s an experience you won’t want to miss! Register here: bit.ly/4biw5eV
Big congrats to Christina Zhou from The McGinigle Lab for her stellar presentation at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Portland, Oregon! ✨ #JSM2024
August 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Big congrats to Christina Zhou from The McGinigle Lab for her stellar presentation at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Portland, Oregon! ✨ #JSM2024
Will we see you at DFCon 2024 this fall? Register today! bit.ly/4biw5eV ALPS (American Limb Preservation Society)
May 21, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Will we see you at DFCon 2024 this fall? Register today! bit.ly/4biw5eV ALPS (American Limb Preservation Society)
Honored to be named the recipient of the inaugural Binkley Research Award from the Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures! www.vascularcures.org/news/foundat...
Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures Announces Dr. Katharine McGingle as the Recipient of the Inaugural Binkley Research Award — Vascular Cures
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April 3, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Honored to be named the recipient of the inaugural Binkley Research Award from the Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures! www.vascularcures.org/news/foundat...
We are funded!! ✨ Thank you to the NIH for awarding the McGinigle Lab an R21 Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute! Learn more at our website! bit.ly/47dUJLD
December 14, 2023 at 8:08 PM
We are funded!! ✨ Thank you to the NIH for awarding the McGinigle Lab an R21 Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute! Learn more at our website! bit.ly/47dUJLD