Community Engagement Program
The UCSF-KP CTSI Community Engagement Program creates a transformative model of clinical research that engages community members, community practitioners, health care organizations, and other end users of clinical research in an active partnership with clinical researchers. The program partners with the diverse San Francisco Bay Area community through three points of engagement: integrated delivery systems (e.g., Kaiser Permanente), networks of community-based clinicians, and community members.
Program Directors:
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Joe Selby, MD, MPH
Director, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
UCSF-Kaiser Partnership
The mission of the UCSF-KP Partnership is to build and sustain an infrastructure that will facilitate collaboration between the researchers of our two institutions. The program employs a research Navigator, serving as the liaison for “one-stop” shopping between UCSF and KP researchers. The Navigator helps researchers find each other, facilitates communication, streamlines administrative processes, and oversees information systems that will facilitate these processes. The program also employs a database manager who is familiar with Kaiser’s Data Sources and assists researchers with pilot data for feasibility analyses. Finally, the UCSF-KP Collaborations Committee sets the agenda for the collaborative efforts, including training opportunities, joint appointments, intellectual exchange, and high quality team-oriented research.
Navigator:
Maureen Fitzpatrick, MPH
Division of Research
2000 Broadway, 1st Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 891-3133
Maureen.b.fitzpatrick@kp.org
