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Linda Ziegahn, communityengagement manager at the CTSC,helps identify the communitiesinterested in partnering with UC Davisresearchers and introduces them to theresearchers who want to collaboratewith those communities as equalpartners focused on improving health.She hopes that the results of this pilotstudy will lead to larger studies andeventually to community interventionsthat will improve the overall health ofAfrican-American families.“In the future we would like tosee better access to fresh fruit andvegetables, schools assigning more time“By engaging those groupsunderserved by healthservices, we believe we arestarting in the right place.”~ Linda Ziegahn, CommunityEngagement Managerto physical education, and food banksrevising the type of food provided forlow-income families,” said Ziegahn.“By engaging those groups underservedby health services, we believe we arestarting in the right place.”In addition to this project,CTSC-funded community-engagedresearch studies also will investigatepremature births and low birthweights in African Americans,and physical- and mental-healthconditions among Iraqi refugees.The project described is supportedby the National Center forResearch Resources through grant#UL1RR024146 and the NationalCenter for Advancing TranslationalSciences, National Institutes of Health.NEW APPOINTMENTTed Wun named associate dean for researchTed Wun, chief of the Division ofHematology and Oncology, has beennamed associate dean for research atthe UC Davis School of Medicine. Inhis new role, he will be responsiblefor working with Lars Berglund,senior associate dean for research,in expanding the breadth and depthof research at the health system,as well as implementing the healthsystem’s 2011–2016 Strategic Plan toincrease high-impact, interdisciplinaryresearch. His duties also will includecoordinating efforts in implementationscience throughout the health systemand serving as the health systemrepresentative to the Association ofAcademic Health Centers.“I’ve had the privilege of workingwith Ted over the years, and he hascertainly proven his drive and dedicationto research,” said Berglund, who alsois program director of the Clinical andTranslational Science Center (CTSC). “Heis an excellent collaborator and will bringhis broad experience and perspective inshaping the future landscape of researchat the health system.”With this new appointment, Wunwill add to his roles as director of theCTSC Clinical Research Resources andFacilities program, chief of the Division ofHematology and Oncology at UC Davis,and chief of hematology oncology at VANorthern California Health Care System.Wun joined UC Davis Medical Centerin 1992 and is currently a professor ofmedicine in the Division of Hematologyand Oncology, as well as professor ofpathology and laboratory medicine.Ted Wun, M.D.He graduated magna cum laudefrom Union College in Schenectady,N.Y., and from Albany MedicalCollege. He is board-certified ininternal medicine, hematology andmedical oncology.UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center • Spring 20127