UCSF Profiles is a research networking tool used by over 60,000 people per month at UCSF to find experts, collaborators, mentors, and peers based on their expertise. It contains profiles for over 6,200 UCSF faculty, fellows, postdocs, research academics, and staff, populated with information from HR systems, publications databases, and NIH grants. Profile owners can customize their profiles by adding photos, narratives, awards, and other information. The system was originally developed by Harvard Catalyst as open source software and has been extended by UCSF.

1. Clinical and Translational
Science Institute / CTSI
at the University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Profiles Overview
Presented to Radiation Oncology
Brian Turner, Senior Product Manager July 24, 2013

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. • 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

6. 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?