Utah CTSI Partners and Collaborators
The Utah CTSI has partnerships and collaborations with institutions across the Mountain West. Following our shared vision and mission, the Utah CTSI’s partnerships and collaborators have continued important work to advance our shared goals.
Association for Utah Community Health
Areas of expertise: Utah Community Health Centers, quality improvement and accessibility to health care services for Utahns, training and education
Areas of Collaboration: AUCH and CTSI’s Practice Engagement Team are partnering on projects related to public health concerns such as teen vaping, tobacco usage and cessation, cancer screening (colon and lung), supporting healthy weight, and pain management.
Comagine Health
Areas of Expertise: Medicaid, Medicare, quality improvement, care management, health information technology, analytics and research in healthcare.
Areas of Collaboration: Collaboration with UU Office of Research Participant Advocacy (ORPA) on StudiesForYou website.
Intermountain Health
Areas of Expertise: Intermountain west health care system serving communities and patients.
Areas of collaboration: Research Studies, CTSI serving as data coordinating center as well as integrating community perspectives, CTSI’s Rural Connections to Research and the Intermountain Lab Services, eConsent, informatics and technology solutions for patient screening, VPCAT program, CRU clinical space at Primary Children’s Hospital.
University of Nevada, Reno
Areas of Expertise: Research centers serving as hubs for collaboration, innovation, scientific discovery and advancing the future of health care.
Areas of collaboration: UNR student enrollment in CTSI’s Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Graduate and Certificate Program, Early Career Research Support programs
Utah Department of Health and Human Services
Areas of Expertise: Focus on identifying and addressing health, mental health, and social issues to better serve the community.
Areas of Collaboration: Study design, data resources
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care
Areas of Expertise: Serving Veterans in the Rocky Mountain Region, VASLCHC Trains America’s future health care providers, and conducts medical research that improves Veterans’ health.
Areas of Collaboration: Enhancing clinical trials capabilities for VA investigators at CTSI, CTSI service support for VA research projects, and VASLC developed a new business model for VINCI data access for UU-administered research that formalizes the partnership and reduces barriers for CTSI investigators.