Team principles for successful interdisciplinary research teams. Am Heart J Plus 2023 Aug;32:100306
Date
03/21/2024Pubmed ID
38510201Pubmed Central ID
PMC10946054DOI
10.1016/j.ahjo.2023.100306Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85163019573 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 1 CitationAbstract
Interdisciplinary research teams can be extremely beneficial when addressing difficult clinical problems. The incorporation of conceptual and methodological strategies from a variety of research disciplines and health professions yields transformative results. In this setting, the long-term goal of team science is to improve patient care, with emphasis on population health outcomes. However, team principles necessary for effective research teams are rarely taught in health professional schools. To form successful interdisciplinary research teams in cardio-oncology and beyond, guiding principles and organizational recommendations are necessary. Cardiovascular disease results in annual direct costs of $220 billion (about $680 per person in the US) and is the leading cause of death for cancer survivors, including adult survivors of childhood cancers. Optimizing cardio-oncology research in interdisciplinary research teams has the potential to aid in the investigation of strategies for saving hundreds of thousands of lives each year in the United States and mitigating the annual cost of cardiovascular disease. Despite published reports on experiences developing research teams across organizations, specialties and settings, there is no single journal article that compiles principles for cardiology or cardio-oncology research teams. In this review, recurring threads linked to working as a team, as well as optimal methods, advantages, and problems that arise when managing teams are described in the context of career development and research. The worth and hurdles of a team approach, based on practical lessons learned from establishing our multidisciplinary research team and information gleaned from relevant specialties in the development of a successful team are presented.
Author List
Brown SA, Sparapani R, Osinski K, Zhang J, Blessing J, Cheng F, Hamid A, MohamadiPour MB, Lal JC, Kothari AN, Caraballo P, Noseworthy P, Johnson RH, Hansen K, Sun LY, Crotty B, Cheng YC, Echefu G, Doshi K, Olson J, Cardio-Oncology Artificial Intelligence Informatics & Precision (CAIP) Research Team InvestigatorsAuthors
Bradley H. Crotty MD Associate Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinRoger H. Johnson PhD Associate Professor in the Biophysics department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Anai N. Kothari MD Assistant Professor in the Surgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Jessica Olson PhD Director, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Rodney Sparapani PhD Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin
