Sallie
Weaver,
PhD, MHS
Senior Scientist and Program Director
National Cancer Institute
Sallie J. Weaver, PhD, MHS, is a Senior Scientist and Program Director at NCI’s Health Systems and Interventions Research Branch. She oversees research on clinical team performance, patient safety, and care quality. She co-directs the NCI Healthcare Teams & Teamwork Processes in Cancer Care Delivery initiative and supports NCI’s Rural Cancer Control Research initiatives. Before joining NCI in 2016, she was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Weaver earned her MS and PhD in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and an MHS in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Effective collaboration within and across multidisciplinary cancer care teams is essential for ensuring high-quality patient outcomes. Despite its importance, little was understood about the teamwork competencies necessary to coordinate cancer care within a multiteam system prior to our study. In our Lightning Talk, we will define the concept of a multiteam system and describe challenges inherent in navigating interdisciplinary collaboration and care coordination within the complex cancer care delivery system.
We will describe our study methodology for identifying core teamwork competencies…