Perspectives from a CTSA Director

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• Perspectives from a CTSA Director
• Lars Berglund, MD PhD
• University of California, Davis
• VA Northern California Health Care System

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CTSA from the PI view point
The CTSA is here! Putting out fires while
building a program
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NIH and Institutions Working together as a
National Consortium
L. Berglund
Clinical
Pediatrics
Oversight
D Asmuth
A. Philipps
Biostatistics
Clinical Research Ethics
L. Beckett
A. Kon
K. Anderson
A. Tarantal
Steering
K Marusina
S. Aguilar-Gaxiola
J. Rainwater
F. Meyers
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What the CTSA brings to UC Davis

• Mandate to try new approaches opportunity to
  travel un-chartered roads
• Development of an institutional toolkit for
  investigators The Institutions Center
• Development of translational skill-set and
  identity for trainees
• Institutional credibility and certification for
  grant applications
• Function as a designated match-maker
• Driver for change in institutional culture
• Attraction for recruitment

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The UC Davis Research Incubator A
Transformative Catalyst
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UC Davis CTSC 18 month long experience

• Energizing faculty and trainees traineeships,
  workshops, pilot grants, culture of collaboration
• Opportunity to re-engineer translational research
  support putting the incubator to work
• Leverage optimization of infrastructure
  resources within the institution
• Vitalized partnerships (VA, Shriners Hospital,
  USDA internal)
• Consortium member Visibility, Forum to share
  best practices and resources

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UC Davis - Extramural grant funding
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Things to keep in mind

• Manage expectations reality check
• Faculty and trainee users best ambassadors
• CTSC a partnership program need to leverage
  resources
• Dynamic reassessment of resource utilization and
  allocation
• Engineer growth of program use focus on ability
  to deliver

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CTSA initiative what can accelerate progress?

• Quantitative metrics of institutional impact
• Consortium benefits identity, national
  guidelines for education and clinical research
  metrics, synergisms in research projects
• Advocacy ambitious goals but limited resources
  - need for unified support groups for clinical
  research
• NIH flexibility leverage CTSA investments to
  advance agenda

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CTSA and the future

• Research integration across traditional centers
  new investigators bridging barriers
• Expedited discoveries streamline processes and
  accelerate translation
• Meeting of minds promote scientific
  collaborations at the intersection of science
  areas within and across institutions