Team Expertise and Management Support (TEAMS)

TEAMS is grounded in a history of successfully implementing collaborative team science in our commercialization, special populations, community-based participatory research, and precision medicine pilot programs. TEAMS builds on lessons learned from our experience in implementing team science resources and processes that nurture our interdisciplinary clinical translational ecosystem and ensure that research findings produce meaningful and high-impact outcomes. The TEAMS framework and approach is based on the Formation of Inclusive Teams (FIT) model, developed internally and informed by TEAMS Director Dr. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee’s ethnographic research on successful teams. FIT focuses on dimensions of team composition, communication, synergy, conflict management, and sustainability, and emphasizes support of team diversity and inclusion of underrepresented disciplines and groups. Diversity, as defined by sociocultural, biological, and disciplinary backgrounds, has important implications for innovation and quality of science produced by collaborations of academic scientists. TEAMS supports collaborations to integrate diversity to maximize impact and fulfill goals of equity.

Collaborative team science is also foundational in our TRANSFORM translational workforce development programs and in our strategic interdisciplinary initiatives across Resources and with Columbia University partners.

Services

  • Team Science Consultation Service - coming soon
  • Team Science Award - coming soon
  • Formation of Inclusive Teams (FIT) Program - coming soon

Resources

International Network for the Science of Team Science

INSciTS will create and facilitate a high-impact community that develops and disseminates an evidence-base to support team science and shapes how research is conducted to solve complex problems. INSciTS serves as a conduit to ensure that empirical findings about team science are accessible and useful for effective collaborative practice and policy, bridging both science and praxis. 

Leadership

  • Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD

    Director; Associate Director, Regulatory Knowledge and Ethics Resource

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  • Akiva Mintz, MD, PhD

    Co-Director; Director, Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource and Translational Therapeutics Accelerator

Faculty Collaborators and Team Members

  • Zainab Abedin, MPH

    Assistant Director, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement

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  • Alejandra N. Aguirre, DrPH, MPH

    Assistant Director, Community Engagement Core Resource

  • Linda Busacca

    Program Manager, Biomedical Informatics Resource and Trial Innovation Network

  • Alexander Fedotov, PhD

    Assistant Director, Precision Medicine Resource

  • Harley Lynch

    Senior Program Manager

  • Michelle McClave, MS

    Associate Director, Programs and Communication

  • Maria Rahmany, PhD, MBA

    Program Manager, Translational Therapeutics Accelerator

  • Michael Rosenbaum, MD

    Associate Program Director, Clinical Research Resource Adult Inpatient Unit and Integrating Special Populations

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  • Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH

    Director, Implementation Science Initiative

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  • Daichi Shimbo, MD

    Director, TRANSFORM and KL2 Principal Investigator

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