{"id":2951,"date":"2023-02-23T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iimsprod.wpengine.com\/pbrn\/?page_id=2951"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:30:05","slug":"academic-partners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iims.uthscsa.edu\/ce\/community-engagement\/our-team\/academic-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Academic Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0UTHealth Houston School of Public Health (San Antonio Campus)<\/strong><\/a> works closely with Translational Advisory Boards (TABs) and other community agencies by providing technical and research support.\u00a0 Together, they develop, implement, and disseminate research and assessment projects that are focused on community-identified priorities.\u00a0 Together the CERC and TABs develop feasible and relevant solutions that engage community members and practitioners, people who historically have not been an integral part of the scientific discovery process.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0South Central Area Health Education Center<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(SC-AHEC) develops the capacity and leadership of communities via Translational Advisory Boards (TABs). Currently there are TABs located in Atascosa, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, and Karnes Counties.\u00a0 TABs are composed of local community members who are committed to improving the health of their community by serving as a bridge between their communities and UTHSCSA to build research partnerships and disseminate findings from \u201cbench to bedside to community\u201d.\u00a0 The TABs work closely with the CERC and other UTHSCSA researchers on community health initiatives such as education\/training, research\/assessment, and dissemination and communication.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Practice Based Research Network Center<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(PBRN) led by Polly N\u00f6el, PhD facilitates opportunities for collaboration between community health providers and UTHSCSA.\u00a0 PBRNs are used as real world laboratories that allow providers to engage in research from their very own practices. The PBRN Resource Center is comprised of several PBRNs including the Residency Research Network of Texas (RRNeT), South Texas Oral Health Network (STOHN), South Texas Psychiatric Network, and the South Texas Ambulatory Research Network (STARNet). In addition it works closely with the National Dental PBRN.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Center for Research to Advance Community Health<\/strong><\/a> (ReACH), works to promote the health of South Texas residents, especially its majority Hispanic population, through health disparities and health services research. ReACH brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and community partners to evaluate quality of care and implement culturally appropriate models of health care to improve health outcomes.\u00a0 On its community outreach initiatives, ReACH partners with the SC-AHEC, academic health care providers from UT Medicine, UTSA, and University Health System as well as its community advisory board, the Alliance.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the\u00a0Improvement Science Research Network<\/strong><\/a> (ISRN) became the country\u2019s first national research network on care delivery improvement. ISRN aims to accelerate the development and dissemination of interprofessional improvement science in a systems context across multiple hospital sites. It comprises over 200 hospital partners with a mission to advance implementation science applied to health care quality and safety.\u00a0 The work of the ISRN can be categorized as:\u00a0 Coordination and transitions of care, high-performing clinical microsystem approaches to improvement, evidence-based quality improvement and best practices, and learning organizations and cultures of quality and safety.<\/p>\n

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