Modernizing Specimen Management: Overcoming Challenges with the UC Digital Donor Library
The UC Digital Donor Library (DDL) is a system designed to help UC medical school campuses including UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, and UCSF manage every stage of anatomical donations—from donor registration and preparation to inventory tracking, allocation, and final disposition. Originally launched in 2008 as a desktop application, the DDL underwent a major modernization effort in 2023 to a secure Cloud based solution. In this session, we’ll cover: • Program Overview: Overview of DDL and the key challenges faced during implementation. • Lessons Learned: User feedback management and validation. How we standardized workflows and metadata across campuses and how we migrated legacy data to the new system. • Application & Architecture: Single Page App (SPA) design, Azure Enterprise Cloud, role-based access, microservices approach, multi-tenant shared and private data model, barcode scanning, development process, and automation strategies.
Speaker/Host
Primary/Host Speaker
Kelsey Byers
Systemwide Coordinator for the Anatomical Donation Program at UC Office of the President
Kelsey Byers, MPH, is the Systemwide Coordinator for UC Health’s Anatomical Donation Program. Her work in the Office of the President keeps UC’s five campus body donation programs connected, compliant and operating at a gold standard. She previously worked for Indiana University’s Anatomical Education Program, where she gained invaluable experience in all aspects of academic body donation.
Kelsey joined UC during a multi-year development process to upgrade the Digital Donor Library (DDL), UC’s human body donor registry and anatomical specimen tracking system. Her contributions to the ongoing project include staff training, collating user feedback and communicating Program priorities to the developers. She has written a DDL user manual and convenes weekly feedback sessions with users across the UC system. She advocates for robust human specimen tracking at all academic body donation programs and has presented on UC’s DDL to audiences of body donation personnel and anatomy educators.
Co-speaker(s)
Additional Speakers
Furqan Kamani
Lead Application Developer at UC San Francisco
Furqan Kamani is a seasoned software developer with extensive experience in mobile and web application development. Currently serving as a Lead Application Developer at UCSF, Furqan is involved in the design and development of features for the Digital Donor Library using Angular and Dotnet. At UCSF, he also worked on Mobile applications using React Native and full-stack development of single-page web applications using React, Nodejs, and low code application development using Power Platform apps and Modo Labs.
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