Kate Dell is a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Vascular Surgery with Ascension Medical Group Indianapolis in Lafayette, Indiana. As a Nurse Practitioner, she manages Vascular disease patients throughout the perioperative phases of care within the inpatient and outpatient settings. She is involved with clinical research and her doctorate research focus was on improving the evaluation of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. Lastly, as a lead adjunct professor of Acute Care Nurse Practitioners, she enjoys developing course curricula and mentoring students.

Kate is actively involved with multiple societies including the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS), American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), and American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She has held multiple volunteer roles including SVS Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Writing Group, the task force for the scope and standards for acute care nurse practitioners, peer reviewer for The Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and AACN review panel for research grants.

Kate believes in a patient-focused approach to providing high-quality evidence-based care with the goal of promoting health and preventing disease. Kate has engaged colleagues, surgeons, and anesthesiologists to adopt an ERAS approach to aortic and lower extremity artery bypass surgeries. She hopes to spread awareness of the positive impact this approach can have on patient outcomes and can continue to contribute to future research in the specialty of Vascular Surgery.