McGarry Lab
Improving the health and quality of life of all children with CF through research, education, advocacy and community engagement
The McGarry Lab believes that all people with cystic fibrosis deserve to live, thrive and dream! Dr. Meghan McGarry’s research focuses on investigating and improving health disparities in cystic fibrosis. Over the past decade, Dr. McGarry’s research has developed the field and directly led to our better understanding of health disparities research in CF. Our mission is to improve the health and quality of life of all children with cystic fibrosis through research, education, advocacy and community engagement.
We are inspired by the words of the legendary civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis: “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
In the News
- May 29, 2024 For Some Families of Color, a Painful Fight for a Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis
- February 28, 2023 National Geographic: Cystic Fibrosis Often Goes Underdiagnosed… Unless You’re White
- February 20, 2023 ‘Caught in the middle’: A battle between Vertex and insurers is leaving cystic fibrosis patients with crushing drug costs
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Meghan E McGarry, MD, MAS
Dr. Meghan McGarry is a pediatric pulmonologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has formal training in clinical pharmacology, epidemiology and clinical research. One area of Dr. McGarry’s research is investigating health disparities in pulmonary disease severity in the Latino cystic fibrosis (CF) community. She is focusing on determining what contributes to disease severity and why some children become sicker than others. Dr. McGarry works to improve newborn screening for cystic fibrosis and diagnosis for all people with CF. Dr. McGarry advocates for access to affordable CF therapies for all people with CF across the world. Dr. McGarry’s mission is to improve the health and quality of life for all children with cystic fibrosis through research, education, advocacy and community engagement.