University of California, San Francisco Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute CTSI

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University of California, San FranciscoClinical
and Translational Sciences Institute(CTSI)
Kevin Grumbach, MD Professor and Chair, UCSF
Department of Family and Community
Medicine Chief, Family and Community Medicine,
SF General Hospital Joe Selby, MD,
MPH Director, Division of Research Kaiser
Permanente

• Community Engagement Program (CEP)

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UCSF CTSI-CEP Aims

• Facilitate clinical research partnerships
• Increase amount, quality and validity of clinical
  research
• Increase impact of clinical research

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UCSF CTSI-CEP Steering Committees

• Community Member Partnerships Committee will link
  UCSF with community-based organizations,
  individual stakeholders, and other
  community-based non-clinical settings (i.e.
  schools)
• Practice-based Research Network Committee will
  link UCSF with clinicians from public health
  clinics, non-UCSF medical centers and clinicians
  in private practice
• Integrated Delivery Systems Committee links UCSF
  with the clinicians in integrated delivery
  systems, beginning with Kaiser Permanente
• Diffusion and Dissemination Committee increases
  discourse and effective practice of research
  dissemination to end users

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UCSF CTSI-CEP Strategies

• Develop systems for linking researchers and
  community partners
• Navigators outreach, gatekeeping, regulatory
  protocols
• Develop information systems
• Virtual home database, inventories, resource
  library
• Provide training in collaborative and
  translational research
• Computer and classroom-based curricula

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UCSF CTSI-CEP Accomplishments

• Hired Navigators at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente
• Convened Steering Committees
• Formed KP-UCSF Collaborations Committee
• Begun needs assessments of community and
  clinicians
• Begun consultation services
• Developed plans for shared databases and linked
  websites
• Developed streamlined application process for
  Advisory Committee review
• Submitted proposal for clinician program
  development