Leadership Transformation in Research Mission

In this session Joseph Forrester, MD, MSc, focuses on leadership in the evolution of research, particularly as it relates to responding to a global pandemic, in this case the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there were evolving changes in the understanding of a new pathogen, and Dr. Forrester was able to create local precaution protocols for operating room staff as well as evaluate how the pandemic was changing the local climate as it related to trauma and acute care surgery. Dr. Forrester will highlight how to create unique approaches during unique circumstances, skills needed as research interests pivot, and how this may impact local and institutional resources.

Learning Objectives

• Examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has created unique opportunities for clinical and biomedical research
• Explore what it takes to pivot research endeavors (How can one use an established framework to pursue new research endeavors?)
• Explore strategies for trainees to pursue novel research
• Explore tackling institution and national funding for novel research enterprises
• Examine the role of collaboration when challenged with a new research question

More about Joe Forrester

Dr. Joe Forrester is an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University and associate trauma Medical director at Stanford Healthcare. He is a former epidemic intelligence officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was a field officer in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. His research is focused on prediction of emergence and spread of health care-associated pathogens and better ways to treat patients with chest wall injury. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, he helped develop Stanford's Precautions for Operating Room Team Members, performed an early assessment of how shelter-in-place impacted trauma volumes, and led the COVID-19 tracheostomy team.

Leadership Transformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic Series

The RAS-ACS hosted this presentation along with two others in conjunction with the 2021 ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit, focused on the theme, "Leadership Transformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic." The series includes the following talks:

• Leadership Transformation in Community Advocacy: Dr. LJ Punch
• Leadership Transformation in Research Mission: Dr. Joseph Forrester
• Leadership Transformation in Translation to Policy: Dr. Eileen Bulger