Office of Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research

About

The Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research (AVC-CR), led by Vanessa Jacoby, MD, MAS, provides enterprise-wide leadership and guidance to UCSF’s clinical research community, ensuring their needs and priorities are represented and supported at the institutional level and beyond. The AVC-CR’s office is committed to advancing clinical and translational research by supporting UCSF research teams with resources, strategic initiatives, and opportunities for collaboration.

The Office of the AVC-CR reports to the Vice Chancellor for Research.

Key Responsibilities of the Office: 

  1. Representation: serves as the voice of the UCSF clinical research community, advocating for researchers’ priorities to UCSF leadership and external stakeholders.
  2. Program Development: designs and implements innovative programs and initiatives that address the evolving priorities of clinical and translational research teams.

Initiatives

Alternatives to NIH Funding Seminar Series

Sponsored by the Office of the AVC-CR, UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatics, and UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

This seminar series focuses on presenting UCSF researchers and partners with different types of funding sources and opportunities, along with guidance and best practices when pursuing those opportunities. Topics include: PCORI, PCORnet, working with state governments, industry partnerships, community partnerships, foundation grants, and more.

View upcoming seminars and recordings of previous ones here.

Learning Health System Working Group

Learning healthcare systems (LHS) are healthcare organizations that ask care delivery questions, answer those questions through direct testing in the healthcare system, and apply the learning to the delivery of care. The goal of the LHS Working Group is to provide recommendations to move UCSF forward as an impactful LHS.

Co-Chairs:
Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH
Julia Adler-Milstein, MD
Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Adviser:
Lei Choi, MD, MPH
 

Members:
Andrew Auerbach, MD
Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP, MHS
Lei Choi, MD, MPH
Zlatan Coralic, PharmD 
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA
Will Huen, MD
Priya Joshi, MD
Kathy Julian, MD
Hemal Kanzaria, MD
Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, MD, FACS


Ki Lai
Amy Lu, MD
Sara Murray
Matt Pantell, MD
Gilbert Ramirez, MD, MAS
Ida Sim, PhD, MD
Mandy Terrill
Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Laura Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Mary Whooley, MD

 

Rapid Response Grants

These rapid response grants are intended to foster research that can quickly generate information to disseminate to scientific communities, policymakers, patients, and communities. By providing timely funding, these grants aim to support the research community and improve healthcare strategies.

Transgender Health Research Rapid Response Grant 

Sponsored by the Office of the AVC-CR, Office of the AVCR-IDEA, Academic Senate, and AIDS Research Institute.
Facilitated by the Division of Prevention Science.

This rapid response grant mechanism supports research examining the impact of federal policies on the health and health care of transgender people.
 

View Grant Awardees
Sonya Arreola PhD

Sonya Arreola, PhD

Project Title: Navigating New Federal Policies: Trans Women's Health in Transition

Orlando Harris Headshot

Orlando Harris, PhD, RN, FMP, MPH

Project Title: A Longitudinal Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Anti-transgender Federal Policies on the Health and Wellbeing of Black and Latine Trans People across Four California EHE Counties

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Greg Rebchook, PhD   

Project Title: Facilitating and Evaluating a Collective Action Response to Recent Federal Attacks on the Health of Transgender and Gender Expansive People Living in the United States

Sophia Zamudio-Haas

Sophia Zamudio-Haas, DrPH, MSc

Project Title: Mapping Ways Forward: Organizational Responses to Federal Policy Threats Against Transgender Communities in Los Angeles

Immigration Health Research Rapid Response Grant

Sponsored by the Office of the AVC-CR and the Office of the AVC-ROI.
Facilitated by the UCSF Latinx Center for Excellence.

This rapid response grant supports research examining the impact of federal policies on the health and health care of immigrants to address a broad range of immigrant-related research.

View Grant Awardees
Elizabeth Ambris Headshot

Elizabeth Ambriz, DrPH

Project Title: Sources of Strength and Resilience among Mexican Immigrants in an Anti-Immigrant Context

Jenise Wong Headshot

Jenise Wong, MD, PhD

Project Title: Perceptions of and Care for Immigrant Families of Children with Diabetes

Jiwon Choi Headshot

Jiwon Choi, RN, PhD

Project Title: A Mixed Methods Study to Explore the Impact of New Federal Policies on Mental Health and Mental Health Services Use among Asian Americans in California from the INFORMED Living Well Cohort

Team

Vanessa Jacoby, MD, MAS
Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research
Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science
Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Molly Belinski
Director of Program Administration
Office of the AVC-CR and CTSI

Nick Clem, MBA
Director of Finance
Office of the AVC-CR and CTSI

Contact

For all inquiries and feedback, please email [email protected].