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

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

Penn State Team Science Toolkit: https://ctsi.psu.edu/research-support/team-science-toolbox/

NCI Team Science Toolkit

NCI Team Science Toolkit: https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/research/team-science-toolkit

Team Science and Collaboration- A Field Guide

Team Science and Collaboration- A Field Guide: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/crs/research-initiatives/team-science-field-guide/collaboration-team-science-guide.pdf

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

  • Dejda Collins, MA

    • Program Manager
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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
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  • Linda Busacca

    • Program Manager, Biomedical Informatics Resource and Trial Innovation Network

  • Harley Lynch

    • Senior Program Manager
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  • Michelle McClave, MS

    • Associate Director, Programs and Communication

  • 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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  • Alexis Walker, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Med Humanities & Ethics
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  • Kayla Zalcgendler, MSPH

    • Senior Program Manager, Pilot and Collaboratives Studies Resource and Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx)