Katherine Sanchez, Ph.D.
COG is pleased to announce that Dr. Katherine Sanchez, of Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, along with Co-Investigators Drs. Jan Gryczynski, Robert Schwartz, and Steven Carswell has received a grant award from the National Institutes of Health – National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities entitled “TAPS-ESP: Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Drug, and Illicit Substance Use – Electronic Spanish Platform: Technologies to Increase Screening in Primary Care to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities.” This study is a Phase I, Small Business Technology Transfer award that seeks to develop and test a Spanish-language version of the TAPS Tool in a self-administered mobile/tablet technology platform (the TAPS-Electronic Spanish Platform, or TAPS-ESP). The TAPS Tool is a newly validated two-stage screening and brief assessment to identify substance use problems in primary care. This technology could expand access to evidence-based, linguistically-accurate, and culturally-relevant substance use screening and assessment for an underserved health disparity population.
