Videoconferencing

Each of UCLA CTSI's partner institutions provides access to videoconferencing resources. To learn more about the videoconferencing resources at your institution, click on the links below.

UCLA Westwood Campus

There are 13 rooms available for meeting reservations located in the Center for Health Sciences (CHS), Goldshmied Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center (Gonda), Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) and the MacDonald Research Laboratories (MRL).

Reserve a room and learn more about the facilities.

LA BIOMED Campus

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BIOMED)

Contacts ydavis@labiomed.org; rortiz@labiomed.org; support@labiomed.org

For IT support, contact Paul Bui at pbui@labiomed.org

For room reservations contact daunet@labiomed.org

The Telemedicine and eHealth Center at Harbor-LA Biomed includes staff and equipment to support multiple activities, including patient care through telemedicine, telemicroscopy for both pathology and research purposes, tele-education using Polycom videoconferencing systems, and mobile videoconferencing for patient care and clinical research protocols. The resources will be supplied to any faculty or staff at Harbor-LA Biomed for any of the objectives outlined above. Specifically, the center is based in the Liu Research Center (RB3) where the CTSI informatics core is located and includes the following resources:

• Four unique conference rooms in RB3, fully equipped for teleconferencing to off-site locations. These teleconferencing capacities will be actively used by health educators across Los Angeles County.
• Telemedicine Suite equipped with 3 MacBook Pro laptop computers attached to a 30-inch cinemoscope monitor as well as a 52-inch wall-mounted monitor and digital projection system.
• A Telepathology Suite that includes a 12 headed new microscope (Nikon 80i base with 2.5, 4, 10, 20, 40, and 100x objectives). The Telepathology Suite is also equipped with new Polycom video and audio systems for remote teaching and consultations.
• Mobile teleconferencing carts are supplied to the adjacent CTSI in RB3 and also to the inpatient CTSI in the main hospital for remote patient interviews and monitoring.
• CTSI computer room is equipped with 4 new Dell computers with 22” LCD monitors. Statistic programs are loaded in these PCs for researchers and fellows to use remotely or locally.
• An enterprise-wide video conference and management system - Polycom Converged Management Application (CMA) 4000 with 100 licenses will be installed in a server room shared by CTSI informatics core and Harbor-LA Biomed IT in RB3. It manages and delivers real-time video conferencing throughout the campus. Polycom CMA desktop enables high quality video and voice communication and allows users to simply point and click to collaborate with colleagues over video. It can support up to 100 users.
• A powerful and flexible recording and streaming server - Polycom RSS 4000 - will also be implemented. It can quickly and easily record video conferences, lectures, training sessions, video data and more. All events can be streamed in real-time or archived for on-demand playback from the Web or from a video endpoint.

Charles Drew Campus

Before contacting for videoconference support: individuals interested in taking part in a videoconference need to reserve a room in which to conduct the videoconference (CDU rooms include Bldg. N conference room, Cobb SimCenter 131, AFH 3071, or the LRC).

Then, individuals should contact David Ramos, Sylvia Merino and Richard Lindstrom with the room, day, time, and requirements (specify if they attending a presentation from elsewhere, or doing a presentation including slides etc.). This request should be made at LEAST a week prior to the conference so videoconference contacts can determine who is available to assist, and ensure that the room systems/presenter computer are configured properly and tested before the conference.

CDU contacts are:

• David Ramos, davidramos@cdrewu.edu, 323-563-9354
• Sylvia Merino, sylviamerino@cdrewu.edu, 323-563-5894
• Richard Lindstrom, richardlindstrom@cdrewu.edu, 323-563-5832

Cedars-Sinai Campus

For more information and assistance, contact:

• William Pelofsky, William.Pelofksy@cshs.org
• John Monetti, John.Monetti@cshs.org