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CTSI National Activities

CTSA National Consortium

UCSF's CTSI is a part of NIH's CTSA consortium, now including 38 participating institutions. NIH plans on funding a total of 60 academic research institutions into the consortium.

The national consortium activities are managed through a series of working groups. UCSF has representation on all national working groups and in this way contributes to national strategies on improving clinical and translational research.

UCSF's CTSI National Activities

Highlights of CSTI's leadership and activities at the national level:

CTSA National Strategic Goals

Goal #1: National Clinical and Translational Research Capability: CTSI Executive Director Susan Autry, MBA, is involved.

Goal #3: Enhancing Consortium-Wide Collaborations: the Research Networking group is led by CTSI CIO Mini Kahlon, PhD.

Key Funtional Area Committees

Child Health Oversight

  • Jennifer Puck, MD, serves as ex-officio for the national operations working group.

Informatics

  • Data Repositories — Led by Michael Kamerick, this group is setting standards for clinical & research data exchange between institutions.
  • Collaboration Facilitation — Led by Mini Kahlon, PhD, this group is learning from each other and through experts, the best ways to leverage virtual environments to enhance collaboration.
  • Human Studies Database — Led by Ida Sim, MD, PhD, this group is developing standard ontologies to describe human studies.

NIH Funding Acknowledgment

Important: All publications resulting from the utilization of CTSI resources are required to credit the CTSI grant by including the NIH Funding acknowledgment and must comply with NIH Public Access Policy.