UCSD Community Wide 

PUBLIC EDUCATION

Brain Awareness Week Outreach Program
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0938
Contact: Michael Dabney
(858) 822-0761 mdabney@ucsd.edu

Area schools, businesses and community/civic organizations are provided with visiting UCSD neuroscientists who update audiences on the strides being made in various areas of brain research. This program is offered each year during national Brain Awareness Week, the third week in March. 

Consortium of High Schools, Undergraduate, and Medical Schools (CHUM)
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0655
La Jolla, CA 92093-0655
Contact: Park Trefts, Ph.D., Co-Director
(858) 822-1257 ptrefts@ucsd.edu

The Consortium of Communities, High Schools, Universities and the Medical School (CHUM) contracts with the San Diego Unified School District, UCSD undergraduate programs, and the UCSD Medical School to enhance junior and senior high school students’ interest and participation in science. The program’s efforts are concentrated in seven inner-city junior and senior high schools: Lincoln Prep, Gompers Secondary, San Diego High, Wilson Middle, Keiller Middle, Memorial Academy, and National Middle School. CHUM provides year-round technical assistance to schools including university visits, after-school and weekend science fair work-shops at the school sites, PSAT/SAT training, a winter break science fair mini-camp at UCSD, teacher training, equipment sharing, lectures, curriculum modeling, and several summer experiences.

Lifesharing-Community Organ Donation
3665 Ruffin Road, Suite 120
San Diego, CA 92123
Contact: Sharie Shipley
(858) 292-8750 sshipley@ucsd.edu

This is a community-based, non-profit organization involved with recovering organs and tissues for transplantation, educating the community about organ donation and supporting transplant recipients and donor families.

The San Diego/Border Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
8070 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Ahmed Calvo, M.D., Director, UCSD Medical Education for Scripps and
UCSD Family Practice; Henri Migala,
(619) 691-7557 migala.henri@scrippshealth.org

The San Diego/Border Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, community-based program that seeks to address the primary health care workforce needs of medically under-served communities along the California/Mexico border region. An appropriate primary health care workforce is vital to a community’s efforts for economic growth and viability, and therefore to enhancing a community’s overall health. The San Diego/Border AHEC approach to community primary health care workforce development is to create partnerships between community entities and academic health centers to establish a path for students to follow from school to a career as a community clinician.

UCSD Clinical Trials Center/Research Orientation Sessions
UCSD Medical Center
200 W. Arbor Drive, #928
San Diego, CA 92103-8223
Contact: Zana Parman, Associate Director
(858) 822-1320 zparman@ucsd.edu

These sessions offer an introduction to a variety of research programs available to the general public. People interested in research participation are invited to attend a weekly research orientation which includes Clinical Trials Process, Medical In-service (a UCSD physician leads discussion on specific health conditions), free diagnostic tests (pulmonary function tests), and ongoing clinical trials.

UCSD Speakers Bureau
UCSD Medical Center
402 Dickinson Street, Suite 440
San Diego, CA 92103-8230
Contact: Eileen Callahan, Public Information Officer
(619) 543-6163 ecallahan@ucsd.edu

Trained UCSD faculty and staff respond to community requests for health information about current research, teaching, and patient care programs. Speakers may be requested by completing a Speaker’s Bureau Request Form available from UCSD Health Sciences Communications and returning it one month advance of a program date.

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