Upcoming Events

DISC Seminar Series

• November 21th, 2024 2:00 to 3:00 pm Pacific Time
  • Presenter: Michael Rosen, PhD
  • Topic: Unobtrusive Team Measurement
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• December 19th, 2024 2:00 to 3:00 pm Pacific Time
  • Presenters: Isaac Bouchard, Rosemina Bazeghi, Yilin Wang, & Hesti Modi
  • Topic: DISC D&I Intern Showcase
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Past Events

San Diego Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities (San Diego LEND)

The San Diego Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities program (San Diego LEND) is a unique, interdisciplinary leadership training program funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The San Diego LEND is administered through the UC San Diego Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute Dissemination and Implementation Science Center in collaboration with San Diego State University and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, and government and community agencies within San Diego and Imperial Counties. San Diego LEND is part of a national network of 60 LEND training programs.

The San Diego LEND program provides interdisciplinary and leadership training to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical residents and fellows, practicing professionals, family members, and self-advocates focused on applying implementation science to promote equity in access to evidence-based services for individuals with autism and other developmental disorders (Autism/DD). Training activities are scheduled from August through May and there are multiple training intensity options ranging from 40 to 300 hours over the training period.

What makes San Diego LEND unique?

• San Diego LEND faculty have expertise applying implementation science, the scientific study of methods and strategies to promote the use of evidence-based practice and research by practitioners and policymakers, across community service systems caring for individuals with Autism/DD.
• We offer specialized training in implementation leadership, which is strategic leadership focused on supporting the use and sustainment of evidence-based practices.
• We leverage strong community partnerships and multi-institutional collaboration offering opportunities to use the strengths and expertise of both academic institutions and community partners to target service disparities and promote equity in access to evidence-based Autism/DD services.
• We strive to provide interdisciplinary training that is responsive to the unique characteristics of our border community of San Diego and Imperial Counties with the goal of improving service and clinical outcomes for our residents.

Who can become a LEND trainee?

• Graduate and post graduate trainees (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical residents and fellows) looking to enhance their training and build expertise in working with autism and developmental disabilities.
• Practicing professionals dedicated to caring for children with autism who are looking to enhance their clinical expertise and leadership skills.
• Family members of neurodivergent individuals interested in providing the family perspective to fellow trainees and receive training and mentorship in advocacy and leadership.
• Neurodivergent individuals interested in sharing their lived experiences and receive training and mentorship to develop their self-advocacy and leadership skills.

Why become a LEND trainee?

Benefits to being a San Diego LEND trainee include:

• Receive training from LEND faculty from UC San Diego, San Diego State University, Rady Children’s Hospital, and the community with expertise in implementation science and community partnerships across service systems
• Opportunity to participate in innovative training and ongoing seminars focused on Implementation Leadership to promote equitable access to evidence-based care for individuals with Autism/DD
• Targeted training in culturally responsive care for under resourced communities
• Opportunity to provide technical assistance/consultation and produce policy briefs to improve the system of care for individuals with Autism/DD
• One-to-one faculty mentoring with core faculty members including mentored completion of the Individualized Development Training Plan and a Community Action Project
• Unique chance to learn with faculty and colleagues across disciplines
• Individualized program scheduling to accommodate working professionals and community members
• Stipend payment (for some trainees)

The UC San Diego ACTRI DISC offers two membership categories: DISC General Member and DISC Investigator. 

Complete this 5-minute questionnaire and join DISC today!

DISC Monthly Seminar

Monthly learning community to discuss the latest in D&I literature, workshop new proposals and learn from D&I experts.

DISC Seminar is held monthly on the 3rd Thursday of the month from 2-3:00pm Pacific Time.  Topic and location information sent in monthly emails.  Select recordings are available on the DISC Youtube channel.

Access seminar archives prior to 2019

Seminar Archives

To request DISC Consultations, please complete the Consultation Request Form. The form will ask questions about you and your D&I project. It will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. The information that you share will be reviewed by the DISC Consultation team on a rolling basis. Please note that the DISC Consultation Team requires 7-10 business days to review and respond to consultation requests. Please review the Triage for Grant-related and Manuscript requests below for more detailed information about timeline and allowable requests. Consultations are not a guarantee for the consultant being able to serve as a Co-Investigator on the grant proposal. As part of our consultation services we provide resources, initial guidance for models, measures, and designs and we can make recommendations to connect you with others who could serve as Co-Investigators on your proposal, if needed.

Who can request a DISC Consultation?

You must also be a current DISC Member to request DISC Consultation. To become a member, please click here.

DISC Consultation Information

Prepare for your DISC Consultation: Recommendations to maximize your consultation time

• Review D&I science terminology ahead of time to help frame your questions
• Share your “Specific Aims” page or other relevant materials in advance
• Prepare to summarize your project and key questions in about 10 minutes or less
• Highly recommend using visuals to help illustrate your project such as a Logic Model
• Prepare a list of 3-5 questions

The DISC Consultation Team will triage requests and tailor services depending on lead-in time and the nature of the requests.

Current D&I Science Center Consultation Team

DISC offers a graduate course annually in the Fall on D&I science co-taught by three members of the Executive Leadership Team, Dissemination and Implementation Science in Health: An Introduction (PH 289R).  This course focuses on disseminating and scaling up health interventions in real-world settings.  Interactive didactic sessions and guest lectures on implementation of research principles, approaches and methods.  Will design a proposal to implement or scale-up a clinical or public health intervention. View Fall 2024 DISH Course Flyer here.

Dr. Borsika Rabin and Dr. Lauren Brookman-Frazee are currently teaching undergraduate Dissemination and Implementation, Policy and Health Services in Mental Health (FMPH 428).  This course will use Dissemination and Implementation Science to address the gap between promising research results for mental health and their successful translation into improved individual, community and population health.  

DISC currently offers undergraduate internships for course credit through the UC San Diego Family Medicine and Public Health Department (Course Number: FMPH199 and FMPH 198).  Email DISC for application instructions.

Read the full internship description.

Former D&I Science Center Interns

Olivia Fang

Olivia Fang is currently a part of UCSD Extension's Post Baccalaureate Pre-Health Program. She is an alumni of UC Berkeley where she majored in Psychology and minored in Creative Writing. She is interested in psychiatry and wants to learn about the interdisciplinary nature of D&I research and how such research can guide and improve the implementation of interventions in healthcare.

Laura Sheckter

Laura Sheckter is a first-year MPH student concentrating in Health Behavior and Health Policy. She hopes to learn how to help populations improve their overall well-being during her time at UCSD. More specifically, Laura is interested in learning about the process of writing D&I research and gaining the tools to apply that research through experiential learning.

About

The Translational Science Benefits Model is used as the framework to guide work done at ACTRI and to assist our researchers in indentifying potential and demonstrated benefits from their work that have a real-world impact.

The Translational Science Benefits Model is intended to provide benchmarks to assess the impact of research that applies scientific findings to enhance public health and well-being.

The model identifies benefits of clinical and translational research in four areas:

Clinical and Medical Benefits (Procedures & guidelines, Tools & products)

Community and Public Health Benefits (Health activities & products, Health care characteristics, Health promotion)

Economic Benefits (Commercial products, Financial savings & benefits)

Policy and Legislative Benefits (Advisory activities, Policies & legislation)

ACTRI TSBM Profiles

One of the ways ACTRI disseminates key information from their research projects is through the ACTRI TSBM profiles. These profiles act as a snapshot to easily share relevant findings and resources in an easy to digest format. 

Check out the ACTRI TSBM Profiles here

If you are interested in creating your own TSBM profile, submit a DISC consultation request to learn more!

 Submit DISC Consultation Request

DISC Resources

• D&I Basics
• D&I Resources & Training
• The EPIS Implementation Framework
• LOCI - Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation
• DISC/UCLA 3Rs Documenting Adaptations Workshop Recording - May 2022
• Costing Annotated Bibliography
• Adaptations Annotated Bibliography
• The Center for Implementation: Inspiring Change 2.0 mini-course 
• Hybrid Trial Designs Education Resources

National & International Resources

• GEM Grid-Enabled Measures Database
• Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC)
• Dissemination & Implementation Models
• Center for Dissemination and Implementation
• RE-AIM
• Implementation Science | DCCPS/NCI/NIH
• Implementation Science News
• ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science Program
• Implementation Science at UW
• Ce-PIM | Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV
• Implementation Science • UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
• Sharon Straus | Knowledge Translation Program
• McMaster Health Systems Evidence site
• Conceptual Models in D&I Research and How to Incorporate Them
• Rabin, B, Brownson, R, Tabak, R, Ford, B, Glasgow, RE.Dissemination-Implementation.org: a webtool to help plan D&I proposals and research. Presented at the Academy Health Dissemination and Implementation Conference. Arlington, VA. 2019 Dec. Click HERE for the WORKBOOK.

CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs

The CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs provides a curated list of resource catalogs
relevant to the conduct of Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) science. The resource
catalogs gathered here include frameworks/theories/models, methods/measures, funding resources, practice resources, training, and health equity resources. Included resource catalogs are curated/sponsored by academic and non-profit organizations with expertise in D&I; contain multiple resources that are systematically organized; and are (in almost all cases) both open-access and actively maintained/updated.

How to use the D&I Catalogs tool: Use the Sort and Filter functions below to view resources in categories of interest, or to view “featured resources.” Use this D&I Resource Suggestion Form to suggest a new catalog for inclusion.

This resource was developed by the Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA)
Program’s “Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Sciences in CTSAs” working
group. This group focuses on meeting both the conceptual as well as practical challenges to advancing the utilization of D&I across the translational science spectrum. In particular, this group focuses on the “how” of D&I integration within CTSA hubs nationally, and on creating and disseminating practical tools, resources, and insights that CTSAs can use to fully realize the potential of D&I to enhance CTSAs’ mission.

About:

Existing grant review criteria do not consider unique methods and priorities of Dissemination and Implementation Science (DIS). The ImplemeNtation and Improvement Science Proposals Evaluation CriTeria (INSPECT) scoring system includes 10 criteria based on Proctor et al.'s "ten key ingredients" and was developed to support the assessment of DIS research proposals. The DISC uses the INSPECT criteria in combinaiton with the NIH scoring system to evaluate pilot DIS study proposals through the DISC.

Learn more about the INSPECT scoring system here!

Citation: 

Stadnick, N.A., Viglione, C., Crable, E.L. et al. Enhancing review criteria for dissemination and implementation science grants. Implement Sci Commun 4, 17 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-023-00399-2