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Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Rewarding Team Achievement

Name: Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Rewarding Team Achievement
Uploaded: 2011-02-09T22:30:40+00:00
Duration: 1 min 20 s
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Description: This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube excerpt titled "Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Rewarding Team…

9 Feb 2011 · 1 min

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This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube excerpt titled "Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Rewarding Team Achievement" (created 2011-02-09). It features Susan Desmond‑Hellmann speaking about incentive structures in academic science and medicine—how current rewards (first/last authorship, individual prizes, grants, promotion) favor solo achievement, and her argument for recognizing and rewarding team‑based contributions and collaboration to improve patient outcomes.

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The other thing that I took from private industry and brought to UCSF is the whole question of how do you incent the kind of behavior you want? So principal investigators tend to be rewarded for solo behavior. Are you first author or last author on a paper? Are you going to win a prize? The Nobel Prize? Are you going to publish? Are you going to get your grant? Many of the things we need to accomplish in science and medicine today are team driven. What if you made a huge contribution to the team and you didn't get on the paper or you were third author over and over? Can you progress? Can you get promoted? Can you win prizes and be recognized? A huge issue across all team based science and something that is something I'm passionate about. Rewarding team behavior. So pushing to team prizes and making sure that collaboration is rewarded in a system that has for a long time rewarded individual behavior. Something that as chancellor, I can promote and celebrate that kind of team behavior that's good for patients and good for the kinds of outcomes that we want.