Consultation Services Program (formerly BREAD)
Clinical and translational research presents unique methodological, statistical and ethical challenges to investigators. The Consultation Services Program provides services to help investigators at UCSF and affiliated CTSI institutions meet these challenges successfully and produce research of the highest scientific and ethical standards.
Services
Consultation Services services are designed to be easy to access, comprehensive, and integrated, and offer access to experts in the areas of:
- Study Design and Implementation: for questions about study design, sampling, recruitment, measurement, and implementation of both observational studies and clinical trials, including specific support for multicenter clinical trial design and implementation
- Data management: for questions about how to design databases and workflow to support studies, and for assistance with actual programming of a variety of database
- Biostatistics: for help with data analysis and interpretation of results, manuscript and grant preparation, statistical aspects of study design, and responding to reviewers.
- Ethics: for complex questions on research ethics, including first-in-human studies, vulnerable populations, stem-cell and gene therapy studies.
- Health Policy: for advice on health policy issues, such as cost-effectiveness analysis.
Initial consultations are free of charge, with subsequent services provided on a recharge basis. Read an explanation of our recharge policy.
People
The Consultation Services team consists of senior faculty with experience and expertise in many different aspects of clinical and translational research.
Co-Directors: Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics & Mini Kahlon, PhD
Unit Director, Biostatistics: Peter Bacchetti, PhD
Biostatistics consultants include: David Glidden, PhD, Nancy Hills, PhD, Charles E. McCulloch, PhD, Stephen Shiboski, PhD, John Kornak, PhD, John Neuhaus, PhD, John Boscardin, PhD, Torsten Neilands, PhD, Barbara Grimes, PhD, Chengshi Jin, PhD, Alan Bostrom, PhD, Erin Madden, MPH
Unit Director, Research Design and Support: Alka Kanaya, MD
Consultants include: Douglas Bauer, MD, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, Ken Covinsky, MD, Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH, Carl Grunfeld, MD, PhD, Bernard Lo, MD, Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, Dennis Osmond, PhD, Nicolas Sheon, PhD, Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, Anita Stewart, PhD, Jeffrey A. Tice, MD
Unit Director, Data Management: Michael Kamerick
Consultants include: Ketty Mobed, PhD, Paul Norris