Lee M. Pachter

Lee M. Pachter, DO is professor of pediatrics and anthropology and head of the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is also the director of the UConn fellowship in general academic pediatrics. His present research activities include an NIH-funded study of perceptions of racism in minority children and its effects on developmental and behavioral health, and a CDC-funded study that uses a national dataset to study of the contextual influences on child behavior and development in different ethnocultural groups.

His past research has included studies of Latino folk illness, variations in parent's beliefs about child behavior and development in different cultures, use of folk and alternative remedies for common illnesses (such as asthma), and cross-cultural applicability of research questionnaires and instruments. He has recently received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to create a national mentorship program aimed at increasing minority representation in general academic pediatric research and education.

He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research's Latino Consortium, the National Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare at the University of Wisconsin Medical School-Madison, and is on the editorial board of Ethos. He is associate editor of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

Selected Publications

Pachter L.M., Sheehan J., Cloutier M.M. (2000). Factor and subscale structure of a locus of control instrument (parental health beliefs scale) in a mainland Puerto Rican community. Social Science and Medicine. 50(5):715-72.

García Coll C, Pachter L.M. (2002). "Ethnic and Minority Parenting" in Bornstein MH (ed) Handbook of Parenting (2nd Ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Vol 4:1-20.