Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Two Openings in Health Policy at UCSF Center Co-Director & Program Manager
We are recruiting for two positions at the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy
Research in Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS). Launched in 2008, TRANSPERS is a
first-of-its-kind research center dedicated to developing evidence-based
information to objectively assess how personalized medicine – health care that
targets medical interventions to patients based on their genetics – can be most
beneficial and efficient in improving health outcomes. The Center includes
investigators at UCSF as well as at renowned institutions across North America and
abroad. The incumbent will have opportunities to interface not only with
academic researchers but also with health insurers, industry, and government. A
particular focus is cancer treatment. Methodological areas of interest include
applied economics and policy analysis, analysis of secondary databases, costeffectiveness analysis, and evidence-based research synthesis. These positions
offer the right candidates an opportunity to gain knowledge about an emerging
field, to work with a wide array of project investigators and University staff, and to
develop leadership abilities in research and program management.
Two positions are available:
1. Center Co-Director. The incumbent will work directly with the Center Principal
Investigator and others to manage the Center including research and
managerial activities. Participation in research activities within the scope of the
Center, including publications and grantsmanship, will be encouraged. The
incumbent will represent the Center at high-level meetings and participate in
Center Board and Executive Committee decisions. Applicants with advanced
degrees are eligible for an academic or faculty appointment.
2. Program Manager. Activities of this position include (a) Program management,
e.g., manage project deadlines, participate in grant submissions, (b) Research
support, e.g., organize meetings and symposiums, develop research materials
such as websites, assist the PI and collaborators as required, and (c) Health
policy research, e.g., lead or participate in research projects, develop
background research materials, represent the Center at meetings.
Both positions require demonstrated ability and interest in research management,
including the ability to work both independently and as part of a large team, to
manage complex projects, and to clearly communicate orally and in writing.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail are required. Knowledge of
the specific areas of research noted above is desirable but not required. The
Center Co-Director position requires a master’s level degree and extensive work
experience or a PhD or equivalent. The Program Manager position requires an
advanced degree or relevant work experience.
Applicants should email a CV and a summary of current and future interests to:
Kathryn A. Phillips PhD
Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research
Director and Founder, UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on
Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS)
Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy/School of Pharmacy, UCSF Institute for Health Policy
Studies, and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California St #420, Box 0613 SF, CA 94143 (fedex 94118)
(w) 415-502-8271 (f) 415-502-0792
PhillipsK@pharmacy.ucsf.edu
http://clinicalpharmacy.ucsf.edu/transpers/
http://clinicalpharmacy.ucsf.edu/faculty/bio.asp?bioid={480F992A-77F4-4CA4BACA-9665753AE7FE}
Call for Nominations
Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy
Research
DEADLINE: June 21, 2010
The Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research
is sponsored by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. The award
recognizes UCSF faculty who provide mentoring in the areas of health services
and/or health policy research and who in their mentoring roles demonstrate the
qualities exemplified by Dr. Luft.
2009 winner was Lisa A. Bero, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the
Department of Clinical Pharmacy at UCSF.
Eligibility
UCSF faculty, at any career stage, with research/teaching interests in health policy
and/or health services research may be nominated. Letters of nomination should
demonstrate that nominees have made significant or sustained impact on the
professional development of individuals they have mentored.
Criteria
1. Inspire and stimulate mentees to do their best and most creative work.
2. Expand mentees’ ways of thinking by fostering an appreciation of different
points of view.
3. Develop career opportunities for mentees.
4. Create communities of learners and maintain life-long contact with mentees.
5. Serve as a role model in leadership, professionalism, integrity and life
balance.
Nominator – must be a current or past mentee of nominee and be involved in
health policy and/or health services research.
Nominations
Nominations should include one primary and two supporting letters (no longer than 2
pages each) describing how the nominee meets the above criteria. Specific but brief
examples or anecdotes are helpful. Also, include the nominee's recent CV with a list of
the nominee’s mentees (noting, if possible, mentees’ current positions).
Please address letters to the Award Selection Committee and send (mail or email)
by June 21, 2010 to:
Claire Brindis, DrPH, Box 0936 or claire.brindis@ucsf.edu
Selection Committee includes representatives from the four UCSF schools.
Award – a plaque will be presented to the award recipient, the individual's name will
appear on a permanent plaque at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies,
and the individual’s profile will be posted on the Institute's website.
About Hal Luft
Harold (Hal) Luft, PhD, joined the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
and UCSF in 1978 after five years at Stanford University as a faculty member and
Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He
became Associate Director of the Institute in 1986, became Acting Director in
1993, and was named Director in 1995. Since its inception in 1972, the Institute
has been extremely fortunate to have leaders with broad vision, exceptional
standards of excellence, and clarity of purpose. As the Institute's second
director, Dr. Luft contributed to and exemplified the Institute’s legacy of
leadership and service.
That legacy includes the training and mentoring of future health services and
health policy leaders. Dr. Luft often refers to himself as a 30+ years' postdoc
because he has been involved in teaching and mentoring graduate students,
postdoctoral scholars, and interns for more than 30 years and in the past 15-20
years has also advised junior faculty. He himself has been an exemplary teacher,
mentor, and role model, and under Dr. Luft's directorship, the Institute, which is an
organized research unit, continued and enhanced its leadership role in
interdisciplinary training.
Dr. Luft was named Director of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
in July 2008, but he maintains an Emeritus Professor title at UCSF and continues to
serve as a mentor to postdoctoral fellows at both institutes. Indeed, he is building
training and research bridges between the two institutes.
About the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
The Institute was founded by Philip R. Lee, MD, in 1972 as the Health Policy Program
within the UCSF School of Medicine with support from The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and UCSF. The Health Policy Program was the first in the nation to bring
together a multidisciplinary group of faculty (medicine, law, ethics, and
pharmacology) committed to creating an innovative health policy unit on the
campus of a major academic health sciences center.
In 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of California designated the Institute
as an organized research unit in the School of Medicine, strengthening the
Institute’s ability to collaborate with departments and schools on the UCSF and
other campuses. In September 2007, the Institute was renamed as The Philip R. Lee
Institute for Health Policy Studies in Dr. Lee's honor.
Today the Institute is one of the nation’s premier centers for health policy and
health services research. We conduct research on the health care system and
health care reform, child health, adolescent health, reproductive health, chronic
illness, work and health, HIV/AIDS, prescription drug policies, substance abuse,
research integrity, and biomedical communications. The Institute has more than
100 faculty, research and administrative staff, and fellows. Institute faculty have
appointments in departments within the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and
Pharmacy, and faculty and research staff include physicians, health services
researchers, policy analysts, psychologists, political scientists, health economists,
sociologists, anthropologists, epidemiologists, pharmacologists, and those trained
in public health.
October 22, 2010 ~ Health Disparities Research Symposium 4 @ UCSF
SAVE THE DATE
Focus: Scientific presentations will highlight health care disparities research at
UCSF
Health disparities refers to gaps in the quality of health and health care,
differences in biological and behavioral aspects of health and disease, and
clinical and population studies by racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. The
definition of health disparities includes differences in the presence of disease,
health outcomes, and quality of and/or access to health care. We welcome
research from the diversity of disciplines at UCSF, from translational, clinical and
population scientists, and both quantitative and qualitative work. We welcome
studies based outside the US if these studies address disparities by race and
ethnicity or social class.
Date: Friday, October 22, 2010
Time: 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: UCSF Laurel Heights Campus, Conference Center
RSVP: To Andrelyn.rivera@ucsf.edu
Abstract due date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Questions: Contact Eliseo Perez-Stable, Victor Y. Fujimoto, or Barbara Gerbert
Bldg 90, 1st Floor San Francisco General Hospital
995 Potrero Avenue, Room 128, San Francisco CA 94110
Phone: 415-206-5277, Fax: 415-206-6026
UCSF Box 1364
http://cvp.ucsf.edu
collinsnn@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
More info:
http://ucsfmedschool.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/health-disparities-researchsymposium-4-at-ucsf-a-showcase-presentation-during-ucsfs-annual-diversitycelebration/
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Soul Collage: The Healer
With Pauline Beggs, RN
SoulCollage® is a fun process that uses your intuition and creativity to select
images from magazines that represent certain healing aspects of yourself. The
process over time will allow you to create a set of cards that can be used again
and again to help you with life’s questions and transitions or simply to support you
on your healing journey.
This workshop is the first of a four session series which will follow the wisdom and
teachings of Angeles Arrien’s Four-Fold WayTM. Each session emphasizes one of
the four major principles of ancient cultural wisdom - the healer, the warrior, the
teacher, and the visionary. This first workshop will focus on the way of the healer.
Participants can take each as a stand alone class. Future dates to be
determined.
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
No charge. Held in the Art For Recovery Studio, 160 Divisadero Street, first floor,
room B 128. Space is very limited and advance registration is required. Please
register through the Cancer Resource Center at 415-885-3693. Co-sponsored with
the Art For Recovery Program at UCSF.
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