Leslie Yuan, MPH
CIO & Director, Research Tech
CTSI
School of Medicine

Leslie is the Director of the Research Technology (RT) Program and the Chief Information Officer at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. In this position, she is responsible for a team of professionals who manage, develop, and innovate on technology / infrastructure projects that support CTSI's mission to accelerate translational research.

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UCSF Profiles (profiles.ucsf.edu) and UCSF Clinical Trials (clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu) are among the software platforms the RT team currently manages.

Prior to the position at UCSF, Leslie served as Vice President, Product Management and Member Services at Medem Inc. After earning a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley, Ms. Yuan began her career as a statistical programmer, first for the California Department of Health Services and later for Syntex Corp. She spent the next 10 years at Chevron, first conducting epidemiologic research on the health effects of working in the petroleum industry, and later in Human Resources, where she was responsible for designing and planning the benefits for Chevron's self-insured and fully-insured health care plans. Ms. Yuan has served on the board of directors of a San Francisco non-profit agency, which provides support for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell University.

Awards

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• UC Yvonne Tevis Golden Collaboration Award for Connecting Patients & Researchers across UC Health, University of California, 2022
• UC Larry L. Sautter Award - Honorable Mention for UC-wide Clinical Trials website, University of California, 2019
• Great Team Award, UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
• UC Larry L. Sautter Award - Golden Award for Open Proposals, University of California, 2016
• UC Larry L. Sautter Award - Golden Award for UC ReX, University of California, 2015
• UC Larry L. Sautter Award - Golden Award for UCSF Profiles, University of California, 2013
• CTSI Pilot Awards to Improve the Conduct of Research, 2012
• UCSF IT Innovation Contest, 2012

Education & Training

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• BA Arts and Sciences Cornell University
• MPH Public Health University of California, Berkeley

Interests

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• AI
• social media
• informatics
• Research networking
• crowdsourcing

Websites

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• @@leslieyuan on Twitter (twitter.com)
• Open Research Networking Gadgets (ORNG) (orng.info)
• Co-author graph via Microsoft Academic (incl non-UCSF co-authors) (academic.research.microsoft.com)
• My LinkedIn page (linkedin.com)
• Citation metrics via my Google Scholar profile (scholar.google.com)
• Poster: 10 Ways UCSF Profiles helps get the job done (figshare.com)
• Patents (patft.uspto.gov)

Videos

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• How is CTSI making an impact? (youtube.com)

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Information Seeking BehaviorMortalityCrowdsourcingSearch EngineSplenectomyPetroleumOccupational ExposureUniversitiesMicronuclei, Chromosome-DefectiveSocial NetworkingInventionsResearchInformation ServicesInternetChromosome Aberrations

• Crowdsourcing the CTSA innovation mission.
  Clinical and translational science 2014 Kahlon M, Yuan L, Gologorskaya O, Johnston SC
• The use and significance of a research networking system.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2014 Kahlon M, Yuan L, Daigre J, Meeks E, Nelson K, Piontkowski C, Reuter K, Sak R, Turner B, Weber GM, Chatterjee A
• Open Research Networking Gadgets (ORNG).
  AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science 2013 Meeks E, Turner B, Chatterjee A, Yuan L
• Strategies for Team Science Success Editors: Hall, Kara L., Vogel, Amanda L., Croyle, Robert T
  The Power of Research Networking Systems to Find Experts and Facilitate Collaboration 2019 Griffin M. Weber Leslie A. Yuan
• Proceedings from 2014 AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science (CRI)
  Open Proposals: A Pre-Competitive Interactive Space for the Research Community. 2014 Oksana Gologorskaya, MS, Mini Kahlon, PhD, Leslie Yuan, MPH, Rachael Sak, RN, MPH, Cynthia Piontkowski, Lisa Schoonerman, Courtney McFall
• A 50-year mortality follow-up of a large cohort of oil refinery workers in Texas.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 1996 Satin KP, Wong O, Yuan LA, Bailey WJ, Newton KL, Wen CP, Swencicki RE
• Micronucleated erythrocytes as an index of cytogenetic damage in humans: demographic and dietary factors associated with micronucleated erythrocytes in splenectomized subjects.
  Cancer research 1990 Smith DF, MacGregor JT, Hiatt RA, Hooper NK, Wehr CM, Peters B, Goldman LR, Yuan LA, Smith PA, Becker CE
• Annals of Surgery
  Changes in lymphocyte number and phenotype in seven lymphoid compartments after thermal injury 1989 B C Organ, A C Antonacci, J Chiao, J Chiao, A Kumar, H F de Riesthal, L Yuan, D Black, and S E Calvano