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
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
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
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH
Director, Implementation Science Initiative
Daichi Shimbo, MD
Director, TRANSFORM and KL2 Principal Investigator