CTSA Evaluation Key Function Committee

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• CTSA Evaluation Key Function Committee 
• Social Network Analysis Workgroup
• November 8, 2008

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• Introductions New Members
• 13 CTSA institutions 6 currently pursuing
  CTSA-related SNA
• Strong connection to Informatics

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Addressing the CTSA Consortium Steering Committee
Strategic Goals

• One of the four strategic goals is Enhancing
  consortium-wide collaborations, including these
  elements social networking, inventory of
  resources, data sharing.
• What should social network analysis be used for?
• Social Networking vs. Social Network Analysis
• Identifying Experts, Matchmaking Process
• New collaborations driving translation Outcomes
  

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Social Network Analysis contributes to

• Discovery
• Describe who knows who, who knows what, who knows
  who knows what
• Diagnostics
• SNA can show us where potential new collaboration
  is promising
• Points of intervention (e.g., retreats, seminars,
  pilot funding)
• Problems as well as successes
• Design
• How can we optimize the network for goals, e.g.,
  diffusion

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Products

• Collaboration on White Paper/Publication
• Organized by the collaboration facilitation
  interest group which comprises membership from
  Communications and Informatics and Evaluation.  
• Current knowledge of social networking in the
  health sciences describe progress that some CTSA
  institutions have already made. 
• Publication forthcoming (Lurie - Rochester) in
  Academic Medicine

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Administrative Supplement Grant

• SNA Training Workshop
• February 25-27, 2009
• Sacramento, CA
• Cross-Institutional Project