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
Resources
- International Network for the Science of Team Science: facilitates 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.
- Penn State Team Science Toolkit
- NCI Team Science Toolkit
- Team Science and Collaboration- A Field Guide
Leadership
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD
- Director; Associate Director, Regulatory Knowledge and Ethics Resource
Elise Zheng, PhD
- Post-doctoral Fellow
Sheila M. O’Byrne, PhD
- Senior Program Manager
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
Harley Lynch
- Senior Program Manager
Michelle McClave, MS
- Associate Director, Programs and Communication
Akiva Mintz, MD, PhD
- Director, Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource and 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
Kayla Zalcgendler, MSPH
- Senior Program Manager, Pilot and Collaboratives Studies Resource and Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx)
