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Community Policies and Practices

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The UCSF Social Media Boot Camp for Scientists (official name to be considered based on comment received) is designed to help researchers explore social media as a tool to achieve various goals, including wider exposure for their research, connecting with potential funding opportunities, cultivating collaborations, and increasing the impact of research, to name a few.

An Early Translational Researcher’s Framework for Health Economics Evaluation

Submitted by Ruben Rathnasingham on February 25, 2013 - 12:56pm Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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Community Policies and Practices

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Awarded

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Advocacy Impact on Research Agendas

Submitted by Laura Van T Veer on February 25, 2013 - 12:52pm Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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Clinical Research

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RATIONALE: Realizing that the benefits of the current revolution in biology and oncology would be enhanced by vigorous public support, for the past twenty years, the UCSF Breast Oncology Program (BOP) has implemented comprehensive strategies focused on leveraging advocacy engagements.

Evaluation of Methods for Bioinformatics Tools Training

Submitted by Megan Laurance on February 25, 2013 - 12:18pm Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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Rationale – Background and training in bioinformatics tools is required for the research community at UCSF to remain at the forefront of biomedical research and successfully compete for funding. Bioinformatics tools help translate our collective molecular understanding of disease into actionable insights and life-improving patient care innovations.

Assessment of Participant Health Literacy by Clinical Research Coordinators

Submitted by Rena Pasick on February 25, 2013 - 10:23am Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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Clinical Research

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Rationale. Successful recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse research participants in clinical studies depends heavily on the comprehension, needs, and preferences of potential participants. A critical influence on these outcomes is health literacy, the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.[i] Since 30% of US adults have only basic health literacy,

Tools and Infrastructure to Facilitate Compliance with ClinicalTrials.Gov Results Reporting

Submitted by Stuart Gansky on February 23, 2013 - 9:58am Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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Rationale: US law requires researchers to register clinical trials within 21 days of enrolling the first participant (since 27Sep2007) and to report clinical trial results in the ClinicalTrials.Gov (CT.gov) online system within 12 months of the last participant visit. Reporting results does not mean publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but rather entering information in CT.Gov’s standardized system. Noncompliance can result in the following for institutions and individual PIs: fines of u

Testing new Web-based software for increasing the speed of knowledge creation from translational and inter-disciplinary projects.

Submitted by Don Jewett on February 20, 2013 - 3:37pm Last revised by Anonymous on March 1, 2014 - 9:30am.

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