Research

Community Engagement Program

The UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Clinical and Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Program creates a transformative model of clinical research that engages community members, community practitioners, health care organizations, and others in a 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 Permanente Partnership

The mission of the UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Partnership is to build and sustain an infrastructure that will facilitate collaboration between the researchers of the two institutions. The program employs a research liaison, called a “navigator,” who helps researchers at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente find each other, facilitates communication, streamlines administrative processes, and oversees information systems that will enable 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.

Navigator:

Maureen Fitzpatrick, MPH
Division of Research
2101 Webster St
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 627-2670
Maureen.B.Fitzpatrick@kp.org