Integrating Clinical and Translational Research Networks—Building Team Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Academic medical centers are widely recognized as vital components of the American health care system. However, community hospitals fill a critical need and play a complementary role serving as the primary sites for health care in most communities. New health care reform initiatives and economic pressures have created incentives for hospitals and health systems to integrate, resulting in a nationwide trend toward consolidation with academic medical centers leveraging their substantial assets to merge, acquire, or establish partnerships with their community peers with the ultimate goal of ensuring that all patients regardless of their physical proximity to major medical institutions can benefit from recent clinical advances. Further, it is increasingly evident that scientists also contribute significantly to the emerging inter- and cross-disciplinary, team-oriented culture of translational science. Therefore, approaches that leverage the combined knowledge, skills, experience, expertise, and vision of clinicians in academic medical centers and their affiliated community centers and hospitals, together with those of basic research scientists, are critical in shaping the emerging culture of translational research. Today, the success of academic-community collaborative programs depends on ‘Team Medicine’. In this Special Issue, we present the City of Hope Team Medicine experience in achieving this goal in medical oncology.

Dr. Ravi Salgia
Prof. Dr. Prakash Kulkarni
Guest Editors

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