The campus community and its partners are invited to attend the inaugural Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics (CCTI) Spring Retreat to bolster support for the center’s mission to integrate informatics technology for bench-to-bedside improvements.
The spring retreat will take place on Friday, June 27, from 8:45 a.m. to noon in the UCSF Faculty/Alumni House on the Parnassus campus.
As the first CCTI community-based outreach event, the retreat will showcase informatics work at UCSF, define strategic interests and priorities for CCTI, and promote a Bay Area network of faculty, students, staff and community partners working in informatics.
Launched as part of UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), CCTI is dedicated to harnessing the power of informatics to accelerate clinical discovery and advance clinical practice. With an aim to facilitate research and training opportunities throughout the Bay Area, the spring retreat will highlight CTSI’s overall commitment to sustain an interdisciplinary, academic community network of health care, educational and commercial organizations.
CCTI incorporates faculty from across UCSF schools, programs, departments and campuses, and is partnered with CTSI-related organizations throughout the Bay Area. Research through CCTI focuses on informatics for clinical research and clinical care.
CTSI was established in 2006 through a more than $100 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery is translated into patient care.
CTSI aims to improve training programs, infrastructure and multidisciplinary clinical research centers; enhance career development and academic rewards; and create a virtual home for clinical and translational researchers to communicate, collaborate and share information on the web. The virtual network is part of an effort to engage community members, community practitioners and health care organizations in an active partnership with clinical researchers, with a particular emphasis on addressing health disparities.
With widespread support from UCSF’s four schools, the Graduate Division, UCSF Medical Center and the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the J. David Gladstone Institutes, CTSI’s 14 programs are creating a new model of clinical research and health care throughout the Bay Area.
Of the many CTSI-sponsored events, the CCTI Spring Retreat is the first to address the collaboration of interdisciplinary networking and informatics technology.
To attend the spring retreat, RSVP by email to Yvonne Kwok by Friday, June 20.
For more information about the spring retreat, please contact Ida Sim, MD, PhD, director of CCTI and associate professor of medicine.
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