Here’s a closer look at a funded partially through grants from the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation.
Samantha Minc, MD, received a Clinical Research Seed Grant in 2018 and a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases-funded K-23 award in 2022 (with additional funding by the SVS Foundation and the American College of Surgeons) to help with her project to implement interventions and amputation prevention in underserved areas across the country.
Her seed grant started her on intense mapping in the highly rural, very underserved community in West Virginia where she worked to understand and identify “amputation” hotspots, followed by qualitative work with focus groups with people dealing with amputations and amputation prevention. She has since relocated to Duke University in North Carolina.
“Funding helped me engage and empower stakeholders in those areas to work together with me to build our actual amputation prevention intervention,” she said.
“The seed grant funding got me the preliminary information I needed to help empower the communities being disproportionately affected by amputation.”
