22 Aug Bridging the Gap: Operationalizing Team Science Framework to Enhance Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Collaborations
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Description
The 2025-2026 Team Science Seminar Series will focus on translating team science frameworks into practice with interdisciplinary teams. In this first of six sessions, we will provide an overview of this year’s seminar series, introduce the “Team Diagnostic Survey” which can be used to gain insights into your team’s current effectiveness. We will spend time focusing on the importance of having a compelling team purpose, including ways to identify and ignite (or reignite) a sense of shared purpose in your team.
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this event, participants will be able to:
- Describe the focus of the 2025-2026 Team Science Seminar Series.
- Practice using the team diagnostic survey to assess team effectiveness.
- Expand your approach to identifying and enhancing understanding of your team’s shared purpose.
Pre-Work
Before the event, please watch the short video Six Conditions for Team Effectiveness.
About the Speakers
Brenda K. Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics in the University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing and co-lead of the ITHS Team Science Module. Dr. Zierler conducts interdisciplinary research that advances the fields of interprofessional collaborative practice, team science, implementation science, and quality improvement to improve team and patient outcomes. Dr. Zierler teaches Team Science and Leadership in the PhD program and Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Informatics in the undergraduate nursing program and Final Scholarly Project for the DNP program. Her primary appointment is in the UW School of Nursing but she holds three adjunct appointments – two in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery & Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education) and one in the UW School of Public Health (Department of Health Systems and Population Health).
Erin Blakeney, PhD, RN, is a co-lead of the ITHS Team Science Module and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics at the UW School of Nursing. Dr. Blakeney’s program of research focuses on how teams work together and how their teamwork influences the production of new knowledge and translation of research into practice along the entire classroom to bench to bedside spectrum. She has nearly 15 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating team approaches to interdisciplinary education, healthcare, and research.
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