CRANIUM: Creating a Culture change in community mental health clinics through having a Registry and reminders, Advice to get medical screening, peer Navigators, identification of Illness, Umbrella of services, and initiating Medications
PI: Christina Mangurian
Collaborators: Dean Schillinger, Grace Niu, Eric Vittinghoff, James Dilley, Liz Goldman, Fumi Mitsuishi, Dave Fariello, Marilyn Thomas, Stephen Chan
Health Delivery System Partner: San Francisco Health Network-Behavioral Health

MISSION STATEMENT: “Inspiring collaborations and leveraging talent to create a more integrated healthcare system.”

The goal of the CRANIUM project is to develop and implement a practice-based intervention to improve metabolic screening in diverse populations with severe mental illness. The primary focus of CRANIUM is to create a culture shift where psychiatrists are encouraged to take a more active role in preliminary treatment of metabolic abnormalities in community mental health clinics. The results from this project will transform the way medical care is provided.

The CRANIUM study is funded by an NIH Career Development Award (K23MH093689), an NIH Core Grant (P30DK092924) and the UCSF Hellman Fellows Award for Early-Career Faculty.