1. UCSF Resources to Support
Comparative Effectiveness
Research
2/2/2016
Liz Goldman, MD, MCR
CTSI Director Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2015-2016
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
2. Treasure Chest of Resources
2/2/16Clinical & Translational Science Institute
5. CELDAC: Comparative Effectiveness Large Dataset
Analysis Core
• 80+ local and national health datasets
– American Hospital Association annual survey
– Area Resource Files
– National Inpatient Sample
– Death Master File
• Available to UCSF researchers at no cost
• Janet Coffman, PhD, Principal Investigator:
Janet.Coffman@ucsf.edu/415-476-2435
2/2/2016Clinical & Translational Science Institute
9. Community-Engagement & Health
Policy Program
• Promote and facilitate community engaged research partnerships between UCSF investigators
and community members, civic groups, and community clinicians
Clinical & Translational Science Institute 2/2/2016
10. San Francisco Bay Area
Collaborative Research Network
• Website: http://sfbaycrn.org
• Services:
– Research design consultation
– Assistance with stakeholder engagement
– Practice recruitment for interventional studies
– Assistance with study implementation
– Dissemination of network research findings through our quarterly
SFBayCRN eNews
– Contact: James Rouse Iniguez - james.rouse@ucsf.edu
SFBayCRN is UCSF’s CTSI-supported
primary health care practice based
research network
Clinical & Translational Science Institute 2/2/2016
11. Successful Faculty with Experience in
PPRN & CDRN
• Patient Powered Research Networks
• Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH
Health eHeart Alliance PPRN, an extension of the
larger Health eHeart study
• Clinical Data Research Networks
• Mike Steinman, MD, UCSF Site lead
Patient-Oriented Scalable National Network for
Effectiveness Research” – pSCANNER
Clinical & Translational Science Institute 2/2/2016
12. Researchers at Bay Area Partners
2/2/2016 Clinical & Translational Science Institute
13. Identifying & Communicating
Funding Opportunities
• CER list-serve sends regular updates about
CER funding opportunities
• To join CER listserv: email Aria Yow at
aria.yow@ucsf.edu
Clinical & Translational Science Institute 2/2/2016
To facilitate researchers identifying potential collaborators, increase access to methodologic expertise & dataset, and to help identify funding oppoortunities.
Non-UCSF researchers require a UCSF collaborator
Non-UCSF researchers require a UCSF collaborator
Study design/conceptualization
Identification of relevant datasets
Assistance with dataset acquisition
Cohort selection
Data cleaning
Linking datasets
Strategies to deal with common methodological issues in analysis of observational data
Programming support
Study design/conceptualization
Identification of relevant datasets
Assistance with dataset acquisition
Cohort selection
Data cleaning
Linking datasets
Strategies to deal with common methodological issues in analysis of observational data
Programming support