Glossary and Acronyms
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| AA | Academic Affairs | |
| AC | Advisory Committee | |
| ADRC | Alzheimer's Disease Researcher Center | |
| ARI | AIDS Research Institute | |
| ATCR | Advanced Training in Clinical Research | |
| BARMS | Business and Risk Management Services | |
| BERD | Biostatistics, Ethics, Research Design, a national wikipedia-type initiative to create a collaboratively-edited online 'textbook' for clinical & translational research led by Consultation Services director Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH and PI Clay Johnston, MD, PhD | |
| BFGH | Burke Family Global Health | |
| BI | Biomedical Informatics | |
| BIRCWH | Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health | |
| CA | Career Advancement | |
| CBPR | Community-based Participatory Research | |
| CBE | Center for Bioentrepreneurship | |
| CCPH | Community-Campus Partnerships for Health | |
| CCTI | Center for Clinical & Translational Informatics | |
| CDA | Confidentiality Agreement | CE | Community Engagement |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer | |
| CFAR | Center for AIDS Research | |
| C&G | Contracts & Grants | |
| CHORI | Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute | |
| CHR | Committee on Human Research (also known as IRB or HRPP) | |
| CHRCO | Children's Hospital Research Center Oakland | |
| CIRP | Clinical Investigator Research Program | |
| Clinical Research | Clinical research includes studies in human subjects such as surveys, cross-sectional studies, case series, case-control studies, cohort studies, first-in-human, proof of principle, health services research and all phases of clinical trials. | |
| COI | Conflict of Interest | |
| COPC | Community-oriented Primary Care | |
| CRC | Clinical Research Center (now Clinical Research Services) | |
| CRN | Collaborative Research Network | |
| CRS | Clinical Research Services (formerly Clinical Research Center) | |
| CS | Consultation Services (Formerly BREAD) | |
| CTN | Clinical Trial Network | |
| CTSA | Clinical & Translational Science Awards | |
| CTSI | Clinical & Translational Science Institute | |
| CTST | Clinical & Translational Science Training | |
| DCR | Designing Clinical Research | |
| DSMB | Data and Safety Mentoring Board | |
| DSMP | Data and Safety Mentoring Plan | |
| DOR | Division of Research | |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration | |
| GH | Global Health | |
| GIM | General Internal Medicine | |
| HDE | Humanitarian Device Exemption | |
| HP | Health Policy | |
| HRPP | Human Research Protection Program (also known as IRB or CHR) | |
| IACUC | Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee | |
| ICD | Industry Contract Division | |
| IDE | Investigational Device Exemption | |
| IDR | Integrated Date Repository | |
| IND | Investigational New Drug | |
| IP | Intellectual Property | |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board (also known as CHR or HRPP) | |
| ISU | Information Service Unit | |
| ITA | Office of Innovation, Technology & Alliances | |
| ITS | Information Technology Services | |
| K AWARD | Career Development Award | |
| KP | Kaiser Permanente | |
| MDP | Mentor Development Program | |
| MRHR | Male Reproductive Health Research | |
| MTA | Material Transfer Agreement | |
| NCRR | National Center for Research Resources | |
| NDA | New Drug Application | |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health | |
| NSADA | Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award | |
| NSR | Non-sponsored Research | |
| OAAIS | Office of Academic and Administrative Information Systems — replaced by ITS | |
| OCPD | Office of Career & Professional Development | |
| OCS | Oral & Craniofacial Sciences | |
| OEH&S | Office of Environmental Health & Safety | |
| ORU | Organized Research Unit | |
| OR | Office of Research | |
| OSR | Office of Sponsored Research | |
| OTM | Office of Technology Management | |
| PACCTR | Pathways to Careers in Clinical and Translational Research | |
| PASS | Professional & Academic Success Skills Series | |
| PBRN | Practice-based Research Network | |
| PCRC | Pediatric Clinical Research Center | |
| PD | Program Director | |
| PET | Planning, Evaluation & Tracking | |
| PUP | Pre-Health Undergraduate Program | |
| RAP | Resource Allocation Program | |
| R&D | Research & Development | |
| REAK | Research Evaluation and Allocation Committee | |
| RKS | Regulatory Knowledge & Support | |
| RSL | Research Software Licensing | |
| SDE | Secure Data Environment | |
| SFGH | San Francisco General Hospital | |
| SFVAMC | San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center | |
| SOM | School of Medicine | |
| SOS | Strategic Opportunities Support | |
| SR | Sponsored Research | |
| T1 | "T1 translational research" may include laboratory-based research aimed at clarifying mechanisms of disease; developing measures or markers of disease presence, severity, or improvement; and developing drugs, devices, or interventions to treat disease or to improve health. | |
| T2 | "T2 translational research" generally identifies community, patient, physician, and organizational factors that serve as barriers and facilitators to translation; develops novel intervention and implementation strategies to increase translation, such as quality improvement programs or policies; and evaluates the impact of strategies to increase translation of relevant healthy behaviors and processes of care. | |
| TCRC | Tenderloin Clinical Research Center | |
| THREDS | The Health Records Data Service | |
| TICR | Training in Clinical Research | |
| TRANSPERS | Translational & Policy Research on Personalized Medicine | |
| UCSF | University of California, San Francisco | |
| VA | Veteran Affairs | |
| VAMC | Veteran Affairs Medical Center | |
| UCB | University of California, Berkeley | |
| VH | Virtual Home | |
| VP | Vice President | |
| WRHR | Women's Reproductive Health Research |