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Dr. Rachel Patzer ’05 Named President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute
Dr. Rachel Patzer ’05 Named President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute
Rachel E. Patzer ’05 has been named president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, with faculty appointment as a professor with the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Betley Professor of Medicine at IU, and professor, IU Fairbanks School of Public Health.
The Regenstrief Institute is dedicated to improving health through innovations and research in biomedical informatics, health services, and aging. Regenstrief is a supporting organization of the Indiana University School of Medicine and partners with IU Health and Eskenazi Health systems.
She completed her undergraduate studies in 2005 with a BS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where was state editor for the Badger Herald. In 2007, she completed an MPH from Emory University, where she also completed her PhD in epidemiology in 2011.
Her communications interests also led her to 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.
In 2018, Patzer founded the Health Services Research Center — a cooperative initiative of the departments of medicine and surgery at Emory University. The work of the center is aimed at creating opportunities for closer connections and collaboration between methodologists and clinical researchers to advance health care access and improve the health of patients. Her research interests have include transplant, health disparities, natural language processing and neural network predictions in emergency department hospital admissions, and Covid-19.
She has served as United Network for Organ Sharing Data Advisory Committee chair and data chair of the Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition, and she is a member of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Review Committee. Her work to develop a regionally coordinated intervention to reduce racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation in the Southeastern U.S. was acknowledge as she was named the 2023 Georgia Transplant Foundation Celebrate Life Award winner.
