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Collaborative Research Network
A Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN)

Vision
The UCSF Collaborative Research Network (CRN) was established in 1984 to encourage and facilitate practice-based research in primary care settings. Our vision is to facilitate connections between UCSF's academic researchers and community-based clinicians to create mutually beneficial research partnerships. Ultimately, we believe such partnerships can speed the development of practice-based evidence that supports better health care outcomes in our diverse communities.

Membership
The CRN's core membership currently includes over 250 primary care clinicians in a broad range of practice settings in cities spread throughout Northern California and extending into the California's Central Coast and Central Valley. We are currently expanding our partnerships within disciplines that extend beyond primary care, including medical subspecialties, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy.

CRN Affiliations

PRIME-Net: The CRN is affiliated with the Primary Care Multiethnic Network (PRIME-Net), a national consortium of primary care research networks with strong representation of diverse patient populations (http://hsc.unm.edu/som/primenet/). Our affiliation with PRIME-Net provides UCSF researchers a new resource to develop practice-based research partnerships on a national level.

UCSF CTSI Community Engagement Program: The CRN has also recently come under the auspices of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Community Engagement Program (http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/ce/index.php). The CTSI-CEP has also developed a consultation process (http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/community/ce-research-consult) and guides for community clinicians and researchers (http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/community/working-with-researchers).

Affiliated Research Projects - 2009

Leadership
Director - Michael Potter, MD (Family and Community Medicine)

Current UCSF CRN Researchers Include:
    Tom Bodenheimer, MD, MPH (Family and Community Medicine)
    Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
    Lisa Kroon, PharmD (Clinical Pharmacy)
    Stephen McPhee, MD (Medicine)
    Rosalia Mendoza, MD, MPH (Family and Community Medicine)
    Dean Schillinger, MD (Medicine)
    Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS (Medicine)
    Margaret Walsh, Ed.D. (Preventive and Restorative Dentistry)

Key Community-Based and Affiliated Collaborators Include:
    Ken Gjeltema, MD (Albany, private practice)
    Enrique Gonzalez-Mendez, MD (Santa Rosa, family medicine     residency program)
    Eric Sanford, MD (Seaside, public health clinic)
    Carol Somkin, PhD (Kaiser Permanente Division of Research)
    Albert Yu, MD, MPH, MBA (San Francisco, Chinatown Public Health     Center)

Publications

Contact Us:
For more information about the CRN, contact Michael Potter, MD at potterm@fcm.ucsf.edu .