Clinical and TranslationalScience Institute / CTSIat the University of California, San Francisco

UCSF Profiles Overview

Presented to Radiation Oncology

Brian Turner, Senior Product Manager July 24, 2013

What is UCSF Profiles?

• UCSF Profiles is a research networking tool

that reveals expertise and connections

between investigators.

• People use it to find experts, collaborators,

mentors and peers at UCSF based on their

expertise

• UCSF Profiles contains almost 6200 profiles

– Faculty, fellows, and postdocs by title codes

– Research academics and staff who opt in

Who uses UCSF Profiles?

• UCSF Profiles gets over 60,000 visits/month

– Academic and industry researchers, the public,

students, new faculty, etc.

• Publications, photos, narratives are shared

with departments on request

• University Relations and other news sources

link news stories to profiles

How does UCSF Profiles work?

• Populated automatically with HR data, publications

and NIH grants

– Information is publicly available from Campus Locator

System, Pubmed and NIH Reporter

• Customizable and extendable by profile owner or

her/his proxy

– Photo, narrative, awards, presentations

– Add-ins for Faculty Mentoring, Websites, News, etc.

• The system was primarily developed by

Harvard Catalyst as open source software.

– No charge for the code/license

• UCSF is a development partner

– Extended product into a platform

– Focusing on sharing data with department

websites and Advance to relieve administrative

burden of updating publications.

A little more background

Update/verify information on your UCSF Profile

Learn more at http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ , on About

and Help tabs

Questions? Contact CTSI at profiles@ucsf.edu

What’s Next?