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From UCSF Today

First Appeared Thursday, 02 February '06

Honors & Awards

Jeff Belkora, director of Decision Services at the Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer Care at UCSF: Named in February 2006 the recipient of the annual DREAM grant program, sponsored by DatStat, a product leader of interactive surveys and evaluation.

A yearly award, the DREAM grant program was developed to help researchers take their evaluation projects to the next level through improved data collection and streamlined analysis.

Belkora will be provided a free one-year license to use DatStat Illume software to collect online data for an upcoming research project. A faculty member of UCSF, Belkora has been involved in the design, evaluation and implementation of decision support for patients wishing to participate in their treatment choices. He is especially interested in the integration of decision support into clinical practices, moving decision research out of controlled academic conditions and into the field.

The DREAM award will be applied to Belkora’s current research projects, which include the integration of educational videos into the routine clinical care at the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center.

"This opportunity truly is a dream come true,” stated Belkora. “My Decision Services group will use DatStat's products and services to enhance decision support to breast cancer patients at the UCSF Breast Care Center and beyond. DatStat's products and services have the potential to catapult our evaluation forward, as we are dealing with multiple complex surveys administered at different time points, and with an item bank that is evolving as we learn what works and what doesn't. We look forward to discovering all that DatStat can do for us."