Principal Investigator
Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano, EdD, PhD,
MATRICx, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Clinical Research and Leadership
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Gaetano Romano Lotrecchiano, EdD, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University (GWU) and a Senior Scholar in the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation. His research interests are grounded in team science inquiry and include transdisciplinary leadership and education, social mechanisms of team science, collaboration readiness, and change dynamics in groups. He is the team leader of the MATRICx project and is a Morton A. Bender Teaching Excellence recipient and past Chair of the GWU Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Dr. Lotrecchiano has conducted workshops at the National Science of Team Science (SciTS) meetings, and is a sought after clinician for team science effectiveness and has been a guest speaker at the Association of Research Libraries-Coalition for Network Information, The American Heart Association Annual Research Leadership Academy, the U.S. Council on Emergency Medical Care (CEMC), International Conference on Organizational Learning Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC), and The International Conference on One Medicine One Science. Dr. Lotrecchiano is the Vice Chair of the International Science of Team Science Society.
Key Personnel
Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD
Vice President, Research Intelligence
Global Strategic Networks
Co-chair, Gender Working Group
Elsevier
Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD 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
Lisa Schwartz is an education professional with more than 20 years of experience in the higher education and healthcare industries conducting 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
https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/crs/contact/michelle-bennett-bio
Director, Center for Research Strategy
National Cancer Institute, National Institiutes of Health
- Michelle Bennett, PhD 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
https://cndls.georgetown.edu/people/yv11/
Professor of Practice
Director of Learning Design and Research
Georgetown University
Yianna Vovides, PhD 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.
Research Team
Sean D. Cleary, PHD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Public Health and Health Services
Director of the MS and PhD Programs in Epidemiology.
Shelley B. Brundage, PhD, CCC, BCS-F, ASHA-F
Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearinng Sciences
Collumbian College of Arts and Sciences
Tommy Leblanc-Beaudoin, MS
Supervisor, Learning and Performance Development at Region of Peel
Toronto, Canada
Leocadia Conlon, MPH
Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Physician Assistant Studies
Doctoral Student, PhD in Translational Health Sciences
Director of Didactic Education
Shenandoah University
Landria Sheffey, MPH
Clinical Research Associate
The EMMES Corporation
Doctoral Student, PhD in Translational Health Sciences
Washington, DC
Danielle Lazar, MA
Scholar, Center for Health Innovation and Policy Research
Washington, DC
Alexandra Rosenberg, MPH
Project Coordinator at Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY
John L. Liu Jr., OTD, OTR/L
Staff Occupational Therapist, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
New York, NY
Marisa Cordon, MPH(c)
Presidential Administrative Fellow
Washington, DC
Technical Team
Joseph Ghobrial,
Applications Developer (Intern)
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
Hadi Fooladi, MS
Software Developer
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
Kevin Cleary, PhD
Professor of Radiaology and Pediatrics
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
Education Team
Tara Ruppert, OTR/L, CHT
Instructor of Occupational Therapy
College of Saint Mary
Omaha, NE