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

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].