Designing Effective Medical Teams and Knowledge Transfer
The quality of health care you get is only as good as the team that delivers it. What are the best ways for health care teams to collaborate, communicate, and transfer knowledge, especially when the stakes are so high?
Tepper faculty and their collaborators examine, define, and design effective health care teams using evidence-based methods.
Faculty Experts
Linda Argote, David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory; Director, Center of Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Knowledge
Research Interests
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Identifying the optimal strategy for implementing evidence-based practices in hospital intensive care units.
- Investigating how transactive memory systems affect clinical outcomes on trauma teams.
Collaboration and Partnerships
- Jerry Guo (Tepper School Ph.D. student).
- KiWon Haan (Tepper School Ph.D. student).
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UPMC: Dr. Derek Angus, Dr. Timothy Girard, Dr. Jeremy Kahn, and Dr. Matthew Rosengart.
Courses
- 47-899 Organizational Learning
Anita Woolley, Associate Dean, Research; Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Interests
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Examining effective collaboration in health care teams.
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Interprofessional communication in dynamic environments such as emergency departments and inpatient units.
Collaboration and Partnerships
- Anna Mayo (Tepper School Ph.D. student).
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: Dr. Andy Norwalk and Dr. Selm Witchel.
Courses
- 45-740 Managing People and Teams contains a component on designing and managing teams that include functional and expertise diversity.
Research Interests
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Improving the delivery of care in intensive care units through improved collaboration among clinicians.
Collaboration and Partnerships
- "Teamwork in the Intensive Care Unit": co-authored with Jennifer Ervin and Dr. Jeremy Kahn, University of Pittsburgh, and Laurie Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University.
- "Reducing the Stress of Clinicians Working in the ICU": co-authored with Jennifer Seaman and Dr. Douglas White, University of Pittsburgh.
- Three Rivers Hospital negotiation exercise: co-authored with Linda Babcock and Laurie Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University.
Courses
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45-840: Negotiations
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47-894: Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
- Executive Education: Negotiation and conflict management training for physicians and health care organizations in Pittsburgh and across the United States.
Laurie R. Weingart, Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Interests
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Improving the delivery of health care through improved collaboration among clinicians.
Collaboration and Partnerships
- "Teamwork in the Intensive Care Unit": co-authored with Jennifer Ervin and Dr. Jeremy Kahn, University of Pittsburgh, and Taya Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University.
- "Measuring Teamwork and Conflict Among Emergency Medical Technician Personnel": P. Daniel Patterson, Matthew Weaver, Sallie Weaver, Michael Rosen, Gergana Todorova, Laurie Weingart, David Krackhardt, Judith Lave, Dr. Robert Arnold, Dr. Donald Yealy, and Eduardo Salas.
- Three Rivers Hospital negotiation exercise: co-authored with Linda Babcock and Taya Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University.
Courses
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45-841 Team Conflict and Multiparty Negotiation
Research Interests
- Examining how surgeons learn from their own and other surgeons' failures (e.g., patient mortality cases).
- Exploring hospital and surgeon data on outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery provided by California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Collaboration and Partnerships
- Jisoo Park (Tepper School Ph.D. student).