Clinical and TranslationalScience Institute / CTSIat the University of California, San Francisco

Fostering Collaboration at UCSF and BeyondThe Virtual Home Program, CTSI at UCSF Research Profiles Conference, The University of MelbourneJanuary 2014

What is CTSI at UCSF?

• University of California, San Francisco

• The Clinical & Translational Science Institute – Established in 2006 – One of 60 institutions comprising Clinical &

Translational Science Awards (CTSA) consortium – Funded by the US National Institutes of Health

(NIH)

What does CTSI do?

• The Goal: to facilitate the rapid translation of research to improvements in patient and community health.

• How? – Infrastructure– Services – Pilot funding– Training – Coalitions and partnerships

The Virtual Home Program

Focused on:

Start-up mentality

• Collaboration• Efficiency• Communications• Technology as the means to an end

http://ctsi.ucsf.edu

A Virtual Home for Researchers

A single point of entry to access all of CTSI’s services and resources

• Focus on research

• Minimize time spent on administrative, regulatory and information seeking hurdles

http://accelerate.ucsf.edu

http://profiles.ucsf.edu

• 809,000 visits = average 2,216 visits/day

• Accessed from 1,700 universities

• 88% of researcher profiles have been viewed 10+ times

2013 Traffic

http://profiles.ucsf.edu

http://profiles.ucsf.edu

• Helped me prepare lectures and work with students• I found a potential book contributor • It helps me find info about faculty • Identify potential mentors • Looking for research opportunities • Great resource for finding potential research collaborators

and for PhD dissertation committees• Helped prepare research critique• Helped find new nursing research problems• Found info about doctors

http://profiles.ucsf.edu

• Researchers use it to find collaborators and identify mentors

• Funders use it research potential grantees

• Administrators use it understand research trends and find speakers

• Journalists use it to find potential sources

• IT staff use it to keep department websites updated

• Development staff use it to match researchers with opportunities

• Patients use it to evaluate clinicians' research background

• Visiting scholars use it find people to connect with

• UCSF applicants use it to understand current research areas

• Reviewers use it to research author background and experience

Our approach: play nice in the sandbox with everyone

Researchers …

look good with minimal work on their part

Researchers …

are told about views to their profile pages

Dr. Smith

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are found and linked to from prestigious publications

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Patients, Funders, Reviewerssearch for and find UCSF Researchers

IT and Admin staff …

benefit from syndicating UCSF Profiles data on campus websites

Photo credit: ©2013 Flixya.com

use the data for targeting emails and more

Faculty and Staff…

Targeted Emails

Identify 1,100 faculty who have published in an Open Access journal

UCSF Library sends out the email

Data Analysis

“Thanks a lot for this.  This is something we claim all the time, but who knew we were the first.  I am so happy to have this info and will definitely broadcast it.”

-- Chair, UCSF Dept of Epi / Biostats

UCSF’s top 20 internally collaborative departments  

Epidemiology & Biostatistics: 424 of 829 publications co-authored with other UCSF departments

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can now build upon the Profiles platform

Software developers…

Photo credit: Tantek, used under CC

Free Apps!

• UCSF integrated OpenSocial with Research

Networking

• Profiles and VIVO can use the apps

• 12+ free apps available

Learn more at http://orng.info

Developers UCSF Schools& Departments & Staff

UCSF IT

UCSF Faculty, Residents, Post Docs

Funders and Development Staff

Linking across institutions

Another model for collaboration

Used for proposal development

• Internet-based• Crowdsourcing model • Open• Collaborative

http://open-proposals.ucsf.edu

How does it work?

1. RFP

2. Post proposal online

3. Crowdsource comments, improvements

on each proposal

4. Improve proposal, re-post

5. Review and award

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“Put my idea out in the OPEN ?!?”

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18 months18 RFPs30 + proposals per RFP40 + comments per proposal$3,700,000+ distributed

SUCCESS!

Spread across campus

Moving on out …

• Make everyone look good

• Shifts in culture can happen

• Focus on usage

Thanks!

leslie.yuan@ucsf.edu

http://profiles.ucsf.edu/leslie.yuan