Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, Vice President, Research Intelligence, Global Strategic Networks, Co-chair, Gender Working Group, Elsevier. Dr. Falk-Krzesinski is the Vice President for Global Strategic Networks for Elsevier where she is focused on strategic alliance formation at research institutions and federal funding agencies. She facilitated a multitude of trans-institutional collaborative grant programs spanning art history to bioenergy, with a special interest on approaches to evaluating collaboration and interdisciplinary research, team science leadership, and research networking tools. To enable broad sharing of her experiential knowledge in combination with effective practices drawn from team research, Dr. Falk-Krzesinski was a co-developer of TeamScience.net. She also launched NORDP in 2008, serving as the organization’s founding president.
Trudy Mallinson, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Trudy Mallinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, The George Washington University, Washington DC. She is also a Senior Scientist in the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research and Director of the Advanced Metrics Lab. Her primary research interest is how better outcomes measurement can improve health care for patients and inform health care policy. Her current research addresses a variety of rehabilitation measurement issues including measuring the recovery of consciousness in patients with severe traumatic brain injury, describing attention and awareness following mild traumatic brain injury, and the standardization and calibration of functional performance assessments to enable comparison of patient outcomes across post-acute care rehabilitation settings.
Lisa Schwartz, EdD, Assistant Professor of Integrated Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Schwartz is an education professional with more than 20 years of experience in the higher education and healthcare industries conducting the program, curriculum, student, and faculty development, marketing, grant writing, and quantitative and qualitative research. She currently serves as director of the Post-baccalaureate Pre-medicine Certificate Program. She has also served as the Associate Director of the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) component of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN), an NIH-funded, $20 million collaborative initiative between The George Washington University and Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC).
Michelle Bennett, PhD, Director, Center for Research Strategy, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bennett directs the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Research Strategy, a science-based office housed in the Office of the Director that since 2015 collaboratively develops recommendations for addressing scientific opportunities, monitors the direction and application of the NCI’s scientific knowledge and resources, and identifies research funding gaps. Dr. Bennett has extensive practical experience in promoting collaboration and team-based approaches by bringing together research scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to solve complex scientific problems. She is the co-author of the Team Science Field Guide which is a staple manual in the field dedicated to growing effectiveness in science teams.
Yianna Vovides, PhD, Professor of Practice, Director of Learning Design and Research, Georgetown University. Dr. Vovides is Professor of Practice in the Communications, Culture, and Technology program and Learning and Design program at Georgetown University. She is also Director of Learning Design and Research at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. She has over 15 years of experience in online and classroom teaching and learning. Prior to going to Georgetown, she was Director of Instructional Design at The George Washington University and teaching in the International Education Program of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. In addition, she served as Communication Cluster Lead for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative Coordinating Center and was instrumental in supporting a developing community of practice among medical educators in 13 schools in Sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Vovides is an expert facilitator and has facilitated knowledge exchange workshops in over 15 countries around the world.