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DoC-IT activities will center on two initial priorities:

1. Creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive academic home for applied clinical informatics researchers

2. Serving as a coordinating entity with key internal and external stakeholders across all mission areas

To support priority 1, DoC-IT will:

• Engage current faculty who would like a primary or secondary appointment in DoC-IT
• Create structures that foster research, support career development, and advance DEI
• Recruit top tier faculty, with a focus on three priority informatics areas:
  • advancing health equity and addressing social determinants of health
  • developing augmented intelligence solutions
  • achieving diagnostic excellence 

To support priority 2, DoC-IT will:

• Advance clinical informatics education and training via:
  • Supporting the Clinical Informatics Fellowship that will be housed in DoC-IT
  • Partnering with other UCSF entities to develop new training programs
• Advance research infrastructure via:
  • Establishing & advancing a shared vision for infrastructure and programs that are critical to clinical informatics research
  • Closely coordinating with ongoing efforts led by the CRIO and ACIO-R
• Advance patient care via a new model for partnership with UCSF Health
• Advance innovation via external partnerships