Rachel E. Patzer

Rachel E. Patzer (born June 30, 1983) is a Public Health Epidemiologist who became the President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine in May of 2023 (1,2). Prior to her appointment Dr. Patzer had been the founding Director of the Emory University Health Services Research Center and Director of Transplant Health Services and Outcomes Research where she held Joint Appointments as Professor, Division of Transplantation, Dept. of Surgery, Professor Dept. of Epidemiology, and Professor Dept. of Medicine. (3) She also co-founded the Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition in 2010 (4)
Biography
Born in Evansville, Indiana, Patzer graduated from Central High School there. She completed her undergraduate studies in 2005 with a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2007, she completed an MPH from Emory University where she completed her PhD in Epidemiology in 2011.[5]
Patzer had been State Editor for the Badger Herald(6) while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and continued her communications interest with roles as a Science Writer at Harvard Medical School, a Feature Writer at For Her Information, an Intern at HHS Public Health Reports, and a Medical Writer at Envision Communications. (5)
Dr. Patzer's research interests have included transplant (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17) health disparities (7,11,12,13,14,15,16,17) natural language processing and neural network predictions in emergency department hospital admissions (18) and Covid-19 (19). Dr. Patzer's Covid-19 interest was very personal as the fact her ER Physician husband sheltering in the garage to protect their newborn made national news during the pandemic, even generating a response from President Barak Obama. (20,21,22) Her hundreds of publications, included in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association (23), American Journal of Transplantation (24), International Journal of Medical Informatics (25), and more, have been cited by thousands.(26,27,28)
Dr. Patzer was the 2023 Georgia Transplant Foundation Celebrate Life Award winner. (29,30)
References
1) Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News, Feb. 6, 2023
2) David Raths, Healthcare Innovation, Feb. 6, 2023
3) Director's Profile, Emory University School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery
4) Emory Pulse Blog, School of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, Feb. 6, 2023
5) "LinkedIn.com - Rachel Patzer" Retrieved 2023-08-3
6) Staff Listing of 82 Published Articles, 2004-2005
7) Patzer, R.E., Sudeshna, P., et al, "A Randomized Trial to Reduce Disparities in Referral for Transplant Evaluation",
Journal American Society of Nephrology, 2017 Mar;28(3):935-942.8) Schold, J.D., Patzer, R.E., et al, "Quality Metrics in Kidney Transplantation: Current Landscape, Trials and Tribulations, Lessons Learned, and a Call for Reform", experts@Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Sept. 2019
9) Patzer, R.E., et al. (2022) Referral and Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation Following Implementation of the 2014 National Kidney Allocation System. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2022.01.423.
10) Technical Expert Panel Membership List, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) thru the University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Sept. 2020
11) Patzer, R.E., Gander, J., et al, "The RaDIANT community study protocol: community-based participatory research for reducing disparities in access to kidney transplantation", BMC Nephrology volume 15, Article number: 171 (2014)
12) Webb, M.J., "Study identifies variability in transplant process among dialysis centers, patients", Nephrology News & Issues, Feb. 26, 2020
13) Patzer, R.E., Adler, J.T., et al, "A Population Health Approach to Transplant Access: Challenging the Status Quo", American Journal of Kidney Disease, National Kidney Foundation, Feb. 24, 2022.
14) Patzer, R.E., Megyu, D., et al, "Referral and Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation Following Implementation of the 2014 National Kidney Allocation System", American Journal of Kidney Disease, National Kidney Foundation, March 14, 2022.
15) Patzer, R.E., Principle Investigator, "Disparities in National Kidney Allocation Policy (ASENT)", ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT02879812
16) Patzer, R.E., "Reducing Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation (RaDIANT) Study", National Institutes of Health & Health Disparity: U01MD0100611
17) Patzer, R.E. & Adams, A.B., "Reducing Disparities among Kidney Transplant Recipients", National Institutes of Health, Project 5R01MD011682-03
18) Xingyu Zhang 1, Joyce Kim, Rachel E Patzer, Stephen R Pitts, Aaron Patzer, Justin D Schrager, "Prediction of Emergency Department Hospital Admission Based on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks", Methods of Information in Medicine, 2017 Oct 26;56(5):377-389.
19) Basu, A., Patzer, R., et al, Managing COVID-19-positive Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in the Community: What a Community Healthcare Provider Needs to Know, Transplant Direct, 2020 Nov 16;6(12)
20) Chung, G., "Wife of Doctor Who Is Treating Coronavirus Patients Speaks Out About Husband's Self-Isolation", People, March 18, 2020
21) Tapper, J., "ER doctor self-quarantining away from wife and kids", The Lead, CNN, 3/17/2020
22) Bote, J., "ER doctor who moves into garage, away from newborn and family, praised by Obama", USAToday, March 18, 2020
23) Rachel E. Patzer, PhD, MPH, Laura C. Plantinga, PhD, ScM, Sudeshna Paul, PhD, et al, "Variation in Dialysis Facility Referral for Kidney Transplantation Among Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease in Georgia", Journal of the American Medical Association, August 11, 2015.
24) Patzer, R.E., Perryman, J.P., Schrager, J.D., "The Role of Race and Poverty on Steps to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeastern United States", American Journal of Transplantation, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 358-368.
25) Nicholas W. Sterling, Rachel E. Patzer, Mengyu Di, Justin D. Schrager, "Prediction of emergency department patient disposition based on natural language processing of triage notes", International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 129, September 2019, Pages 184-188
26) Rachel E. Patzer, ResearchGate.
27) Google Scholar Citations 2023-08-02
28) PubMed, National Library of Medicine, Author=Rachel E. Patzer
29) Georgia Transplant Foundation website 2023
30) 2023 Celebrate Life Gala Transplant Champion award winners, Dr. Stephen Pastan and Dr. Rachel Patzer., youtube.com video shown at event
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Epidemiologists
American physicians
1983 births
Living people
Scientists from Indiana