presented at VIVO 2016, Denver CO Aug 2016

1. 10
Simple
Ways
UCSF
Profiles
has
Been
Used
to
Win
Funding,
Find
Collaborators,
and
Get
the
Job
Done
UCSF
Profiles
launched
officially
in
2010.
A;er
many
years
of
promo?on,
using
a
myriad
of
engagement
strategies,
UCSF
Profiles
is
now
a
system
that
is
“relied
upon
by
the
enterprise.”
Here
are
some
examples
that
jus?fy
this
status.
Clinical
and
Transla?onal
Science
Ins?tute
(CTSI)
is
part
of
the
Clinical
and
Transla?onal
Science
Award
(CTSA)
program
funded
by
the
Na?onal
Center
for
Advancing
Transla?onal
Sciences
(NCATS)
at
the
Na?onal
Ins?tutes
of
Health
(NIH)
(Grant
Number
UL1
TR991872).
Profiles
RNS
is
made
possible
by
the
Profiles
Research
Networking
So;ware
developed
under
the
supervision
of
Griffin
M
Weber,
MD,
PhD,
with
support
from
Grant
Number
1
UL1
RR025758-­‐01
to
Harvard
Catalyst:
The
Harvard
Clinical
and
Transla?onal
Science
Center
from
the
Na?onal
Center
for
Research
Resources
and
support
from
Harvard
University
and
its
affiliated
academic
healthcare
centers.
(1) Connect students and trainees w/
faculty mentors
(5) Find the right researchers for limited
submission funding opportunities
(3) Help recognize researchers’
achievements with automated reports
UCSF Professor Daniel
Lowenstein, MD, vice chair of the
Department of Neurology has
said his “approach to mentoring
students now relies regularly on
Profiles.”
Leslie
Yuan,
Eric
Meeks,
Brian
Turner,
and
Anirvan
Cha`erjee
University
of
California,
San
Francisco
Clinical
&
Transla?onal
Science
Ins?tute
Mentees use UCSF Profiles to find potential mentors,
matching based on shared interests or other criteria.
(10) Send better email on campus
ListMaker
tool
exports
emails
based
on
search
terms
The Director of Communications of the UCSF School
of Medicine uses UCSF Profiles to create custom
email lists based on research interests in order to send
communications to specific target groups. “This is a key
element in our drive to communicate more efficiently
and effectively.” She uses the UCSF Profiles
“ListMaker” tool to create these lists.
We automatically generate monthly reports on UCSF
researchers’ new publications in high impact journals at
the request of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
(EVCP). The EVCP uses the list to recognize and send
personalized congratulatory emails to the authors. The
recipients are very appreciative of the recognition, and
the office stays up-to-date on what the faculty are
focused on.
The Department of Medicine and others also now use
the data to highlight recent publications from their
researchers.
(4) Simplify the faculty advancement
and promotion process
We worked closely with the UCSF Office of Academic
Affairs to enable UCSF’s home-grown faculty
advancement and promotion web portal to import new
publications for our researchers via UCSF Profiles’ API.
This helps researchers keep their CVs updated, and
reduces duplicative work.
UCSF’s Research Development Office routinely relies on
UCSF Profiles to:
• identify and notify the right researchers about limited
submission funding opportunities
• foster and facilitate scientific collaborations between
internal and external research teams
(6) Help patients learn about our
researcher-clinicians
Real responses from our website survey:
• “My husband is going to a prostate oncologist,
reading his bio reassured me!”
• “It was extremely helpful to know that the clinician we
were getting a 2nd opinion from has extensive
research experience as well as associations with
exciting clinical trials.
• “Love the information on here. It gave me information
on a provider and reassured me he is an expert in his
field :)”
• “Informative background on my sister's prospective
surgeon.”
(7) Make our researchers easily
accessible to potential collaborators
Researchers tell us that their profile pages:
• are read by colleagues from other institutions
• get linked to by other institutions when they speak at
events and webinars
• are used by staff inviting our faculty to seminars and
conferences
(8) Provide concrete evidence of
collaboration for NIH grants
A UCSF department has been downloading data from
UCSF Profiles to automatically identify publications co-
authored by faculty and mentored research residents.
This data provides concrete evidence of collaboration
outputs when reapplying for NIH training grants.
(9) Show off our researchers
to the whole world
Researchers’
pages
on
UCSF
Profiles
are
regularly
linked
to
from
major
online
media
like
the
New
York
Times,
BBC,
CNN,
The
Atlan?c,
the
LA
Times,
the
Guardian,
Bloomberg,
Na?onal
Geographic,
and
others.
UCSF
University
Rela?ons
ac?vely
uses
Profiles
to
locate
subject
ma`er
experts
for
media
opportuni?es,
and
their
standard
editorial
prac?ce
is
to
link
to
UCSF
Profiles
pages
whenever
they
reference
UCSF
researchers
in
their
ar?cles.
(2) Save staff and faculty time by
keeping campus websites up-to-date
Dozens of UCSF school, department, and lab websites
pull data from UCSF Profiles APIs to keep their websites
automatically up-to-date. This saves on staff time, and
reduces the need for faculty to update their information on
multiple websites. Websites often import:
• Publications
• Biography
• Awards and honors
• Photos
• Featured publications
• Twitter feed
• Videos (e.g. from YouTube)
Learn about our APIs at
http://opendata.profiles.ucsf.edu/
Learn about ListMaker and other OpenSocial gadgets:
http://www.orng.info