The Patient and Community Engaged Research (PACER) Center aims to lead Baylor Scott & White Research Institute (BSWRI) toward integrating a health equity approach across the research enterprise by facilitating the engagement, enrollment, and retention of historically underrepresented populations in research and clinical trials.
Objectives:
- The PACER Center provides guidance and serves as a resource to investigators and front-line research staff for engaging and enrolling underrepresented populations
- The PACER Center provides support to research teams and investigators on the development of metrics for underrepresented populations participation in studies
- The PACER Center tracks metrics and monitors enrollment and recruitment progress with interested research study partners after identifying solutions to enrollment and retention challenges experienced
PACER team
The PACER PEARLs: Patients Engaged as Research Leaders
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Regional Health Services announcement
February 2025
The Department of Family Medicine (Central Region) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Katherine Sanchez (PhD, LCSW) to the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Regional Health Services. As an Endowed Chair, Dr. Sanchez will help to guide the research mission within the Department of Family Medicine with a focus on rural health care delivery and workforce development.
More about research at Baylor Scott & White
PACER Center current studies
Previous studies
Publications
Full publication listing is accessible on Google Scholar: Katherine Sanchez - Google Scholar