Director: Ida Sim, MD, Ph.D

About the Program

Informatics — the use of computation to understand and manage complexity — is becoming increasingly critical for advancing both clinical science and practice. CCTI’s intellectual community will foster interdisciplinary work in basic and applied informatics. Our faculty come from across UCSF schools, programs, departments, and campuses, and reflect a breadth of expertise from computing algorithms to database technologies to information systems implementation and policy. In addition, community partners from throughout the Bay Area enhance the richness of joint research and training opportunities.

Research activities span the following areas:

  • Clinical research informatics - informatics for clinical knowledge discovery, and the design, execution, management, and reporting of clinical research
  • T2 translational informatics - theories and methods for the retrieval, analysis, synthesis, presentation, and application of clinical research to individual patients and the community (including meta-analysis, guidelines, etc) to practice
  • Clinical informatics for patient safety and quality of care - informatics for monitoring and ensuring patient safety and quality of care for inpatient, outpatient, and community-based care