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Team Science in Action: Pros, Cons and Recommendations

Leadership for Innovative Team Science 2019-2020Team: A of

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Our StoryThe Genesis of the Pediatric Cardiovascular Research Laboratory

Shelley Miyamoto, MDProfessorPediatric Cardiologist

Brian Stauffer, MDProfessorAdult Cardiologist

Kika Sucharov, PhDProfessorMolecular Biologist

Stephanie Nakano, MDAssistant ProfessorPediatric Cardiologist

Kathryn Chatfield, MD PhDAssociate ProfessorPediatric Cardiologist

Anastacia Garcia, PhDAssistant ProfessorMolecular Biologist

Kathleen Woulfe, PhDAssistant ProfessorMolecular Physiologist

Genevieve Sparagna, PhDAssistant ProfessorMetabolism and Biophysicist

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Why Team Science?

• NIH’s Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) hosts “Catalyzing Team Science” symposium

• NIH Roadmap includes “Research Teams of the Future” as a focus area2003

• NIH Tenure Review Committee revises criteria to include “team science”• Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Consortium is

established to support and promote interdisciplinary teams2006

• NIH Guide for Intramural Research is revised to include a more robust description of collaborative teams

• NIH institutes a multiple-PI grant mechanism2007

: Commitment to Team Science

• A recent NIH call for proposals used “team science” 40+ times

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Our Experience: The Benefits

• Promotes lab sustainability, shared resources

• Diversity of expertise, complementary expertise, diverse skills/knowledge/strengths

• Diversification of research projects, multi-disciplinary approach

• Team is supportive and trustworthy, allows work/life balance

• Development of junior talent, focus on career development of mentees

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Our Experience: The Challenges

• Clarity of Expectations*

• Communication*

• Competing Obligations

• Large Personnel Infrastructure

• Transition to Independence of Junior Faculty

• Collaboration Beyond the Existing Team

• Prioritizing Shared Resources

* Also identified as challenges for our group in the LITeS Team Emotional and Social Intelligence

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Survey on Job Satisfaction

There are clear benefits and challenges associated with maintaining a successful team

• We were interested in understanding challenges that are particularly intervene-able by institutions

Rationale: To determine if people who work as a part of a team are satisfied with their job

• Hierarchy

• General satisfaction

• Appreciation

• Relationship with supervisors

• Work/life balance

• Communication

• Pride

• Expectations

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CSU Experience - Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships (CIP): an Institutional Team Science Intervention

• Jeni Cross, PhD; Ellen R. Fisher, PhD; and Hannah Love, PhD candidate

• Established in 2014 by Vice President for Research

• Goal: stimulate new teams and support them to compete for large opportunities

• $200k/each seed grant to fund new collaborative research projects

• First cohort of teams showed the need for team-based training

• Pre-CIP: Teams apply for a $5K/each to be part of the program

• Goal of Pre-CIP: work with teams to ensure these are functional teams

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CSU Experience - Team Survey Summary: 1st Quarter of 2018

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I feel like my contributions are valued on the teamI am confident about the teamMy team gets things doneI am confident about the goals of the teamTeam meetings are funI feel like I have something unique to contribute to the team

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CSU Experience - Some Metrics for Individual CIP Teams

One measure of success: $$

• Team 5: >$4.4M awarded (total costs)$33.4M submitted, pending

• Team 4: >$1.7 awarded to CSU (some multi-institutional)$6.8M submitted, pending (Q7)

• Team 2: ~$550K awarded to CSU$1.8M submitted, pending (Q7) + center preproposal

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What We Learned Through the LITeS Program

• Genuine relationships• Cultivating interpersonal trust and mutual respect, safe for risk taking

• Team communication

• Managing team research• Defining team roles

• Collaborative thinking & team creativity

• Team leadership• Training and developmental evaluation

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University Investments to Support Team Science Competencies

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THANK YOU

Shelley Miyamoto, MDKika Sucharov, PhDBrian Stauffer, MDGenevieve Sparagna, PhDKatie Chatfield, MD, PhDStephanie Nakano, MDKC Woulfe, PhDTasha Garcia, PhD

Danielle Jeffrey, MSCarissa Miyano, MSRaleigh Jonscher, BSBonnie Neltner, MSCortney Wilson, MSKelley Brodsky, MS, MBA

Julie Pires Da Silva, PhDFrehiwet Hailu, DVMTova Ceccato, PhD

Pediatric Cardiovascular Research Laboratory

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COVID-19 and Team Science

• Faculty members most impacted by the shutdown were mid-level/junior faculty.• “…overall research productivity is considerably reduced”• “I was unable to get preliminary data for a grant submission”• “I am worried about local and federal funding cuts”

• Whether junior faculty members had the support of a team (either formal or informal) seemed to make a difference in how they weathered the shut down.• “It got lonely with just my PRA and I [undergraduates were not allowed back]”• ”…comradery with colleagues going through the same challenges was helpful”

• Established faculty members were not as impacted by COVID regardless of being part of a team. There some positives related to the shutdown (more time to analyze data and write papers). However, there is a general concern about NIH funding. • “Productivity working from home soared”• “…provided me the time I needed to write grants and analyze data…several papers were written…”

• NIH Survey Results:• Reduced access to colleagues due to virtual environment was the #1 factor that has negatively impacted research

as a result of COVID-19, selected by 56.4% of respondents.• IT-related tasks or support was #1 activity that researchers have spent more time on since the pandemic, selected by

56.1% respondents.• Societal and/or political events was the #1 factor that has negatively impacted researchers’ mental health during the

pandemic, and supervisor expectations was the #1 fact that has positively impacted mental health, selected by 65.0% and 20.6% of respondents.