TY - JOUR
T1 - Team principles for successful interdisciplinary research teams
AU - for the Cardio-Oncology Artificial Intelligence Informatics & Precision (CAIP) Research Team Investigators
AU - Brown, Sherry Ann
AU - Sparapani, Rodney
AU - Osinski, Kristen
AU - Zhang, Jun
AU - Blessing, Jeffrey
AU - Cheng, Feixiong
AU - Hamid, Abdulaziz
AU - MohamadiPour, Mehri Bagheri
AU - Lal, Jessica Castrillon
AU - Kothari, Anai N.
AU - Caraballo, Pedro
AU - Noseworthy, Peter
AU - Johnson, Roger H.
AU - Hansen, Kathryn
AU - Sun, Louise Y.
AU - Crotty, Bradley
AU - Cheng, Yee Chung
AU - Echefu, Gift
AU - Doshi, Krishna
AU - Olson, Jessica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cardio-oncology
KW - Interdisciplinary teams
KW - Team building
KW - Team mentorship
KW - Team science
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ahjo.2023.100306
DO - 10.1016/j.ahjo.2023.100306
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163019573
SN - 2666-6022
VL - 32
JO - American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice
JF - American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice
M1 - 100306
ER -