The Patient Engagement Research Lab is an interdisciplinary collaboration of clinicians and researchers with expertise in patient engagement, health services research, behavioral change, health communication, education development, including mHealth technologies, and dissemination of innovations through multilevel care delivery interventions. Its mission is to expand access to optimal treatments, reduce racial disparities, ensure informed decision-making, increase patient engagement and patient-centered care, and improve health outcomes.

Through collaboration with healthcare providers, national leaders and organizations, and healthcare policymakers, this lab translates findings from effective clinical trials and intervention into practice to ensure that patients can live longer and enjoy the best possible quality of life.  Based in Surgery and Transplant, it has a specialized focus on increasing transplant referrals and living donation rates, but also provides general methodological expertise to other clinical specialties and hospital-wide quality improvement initiatives.

Fundamentally, we innovate and improve healthcare to better support all patients.