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WITH U, Women in Tech Health – UCLA, formed in 2018 to empower women and provide the tools needed to help them drive their careers. To achieve this, women in UCLA Health IT got together to build an inclusive network to empower women to lead, rise, and tackle the challenges of a changing IT landscape. Since their founding, WITH U has led the “Building Connections” program to give women the tools and resources needed to build their personal brand and use it to drive their career to the next step.

Box Drive is now available for all your devices! For more information, visit our Box webpage.

On August 1, DGIT hosted a workshop on Box and all its features. We had more than 150 people attend in-person with over 70 people connected via Zoom. Our subject matter experts were on hand to talk about:

In August 2018, DGIT formed the Research Enablement Initiative to better understand the research community’s technology needs and develop new processes that would allow us to provide secure and sophisticated IT solutions with minimal disruption. The Research Enablement Advisory features representation from across UCLA Health sciences schools and chaired by Dr. Steve Smale has been able to achieve a wide breadth of objectives that will serve as stepping stones in building a more robust technological infrastructure for a thriving research environment.

In the last year, Dean Kelsey Martin and Dr. Mike Pfeffer have been working closely and diligently on the recruitment of the DGIT Deputy Chief Information Officer to lead the Health Sciences Schools’ IT support and services. The search for this position has garnered the attention of over 100 qualified applicants nationwide. The search is underway with an estimated completion by the end of this calendar year.

Stop by Geffen Hall on October 10 for the second part of our Zoom workshops to learn about Zoom's advanced capabilities!

Join us for the second session in our two-part workshop on Zoom for UCLA Health with our subject matter expert, Sean Stanley. In these sessions, we will walk you through the advanced capabilities of Zoom, HIPAA-compliant web conferencing platform.