Training and Education (TRANSFORM)

TRANSFORM (TRaining And Nurturing Scholars FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary) is the Irving Institute’s educational resource, administering the interdisciplinary master’s, predoctoral, postdoctoral, and career development programs. The primary goals of the TRANSFORM programs are to produce clinical and translational researchers who are familiar with interdisciplinary team structures, comfortable with leadership roles, able to integrate research from other disciplines and methodologies, and are prepared to direct multi- and interdisciplinary research. By recruiting, training, and nurturing the next generation of translational and clinical researchers, TRANSFORM helps to change and improve the culture of research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and speed the process of research and discovery for the improvement of public health.

Video: Excerpt from the CUIMC, Irving Institute Town Hall- 10/12/2021 

TRANSFORM Overview

 

 

Services

TRANSFORM provides support through its programs, awards, and resources:

TRANSFORM collaborates across the Irving Institute to offer:

TRANSFORM Leadership

  • Daichi Shimbo, MD

    • Director and KL2 Principal Investigator; Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Research Career Development
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  • Bernard Chang, MD, PhD

    • Associate Director, TRANSFORM; Associate Professorship of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Associate Dean for Faculty Health and Research Career Development, VP&S
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  • Harley Lynch, MS

    • Senior Program Manager
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KL2 Leadership

  • Daichi Shimbo, MD

    • Co-Director and KL2 Multi-Principal Investigator; Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Research Career Development
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  • Jeanine M. Genkinger, PhD, MHS

    • Co-Director and KL2 Multi-Principal Investigator; Associate Professor of Epidemiology

TL1 Leadership

  • Marisa Spann, PhD, MPH

    • Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator; Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medical Psychology
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  • Jacquelyn Y. Taylor, PhD, RN

    • Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator; Helen F. Petit Professor of Nursing
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MS/POR Leadership

  • R. Todd Ogden, PhD

    • Director; Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biostatistics
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  • Marisa Spann, PhD, MPH

    • Course Director; Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medical Psychology
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Reach for the First R01 Leadership

  • R. Todd Ogden, PhD

    • Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biostatistics
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  • Mary Beth Terry, PhD

    • Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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TRANSFORM Evolution Leadership

  • Marisa Spann, PhD, MPH

    • Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medical Psychology
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  • Badri N. Vardarajan

    • Assistant Professor of Neurological Science
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Faculty Collaborators

Julie Kornfeld   

Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan          

Anne Taylor      

Dana March, BEST

Melissa Begg, BEST

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, BIRM

Rachel Shelton, BIRM

Michaeline Bresnaha, MS-POR

Bin Cheng, MS-POR

Qixuan Chen, MS-POR

TRANSFORM Staff

Ivy Chen, CSRI

Justine  Herrera, MS-POR

Crystal  Denize, Program Coordinator

Scholars and Trainees

Advisory Board

  • Lee Goldman, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine
  • Muredach Reilly, Florence and Herbert Irving Endowed Professor of Medicine; Director, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
  • Elaine Abrams, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
  • Melissa Begg, Professor of Biostatistics; Vice Provost for Academic Programs
  • Wendy Chung, Kennedy Family Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  • Elizabeth Cohn, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing
  • Katherine Crew, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Karina Davidson, Professor of Behavioral Medicine in Medicine and Psychiatry; Vice Dean for Organizational Effectiveness of P&S
  • Peter Dayan, Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Thomas Diacovo, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology and Cell Biology
  • Donald Edmondson, Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine
  • Mitchell Elkind, Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology
  • Pam Factor-Litvak, Professor of Epidemiology; Associate Dean for Research
  • Ali Gharavi, Jay Meltzer, MD Professor of Nephrology and Hypertension
  • David Goldstein, John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research (in Genetics and Development) and Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
  • Nancy Green, Professor of Pediatrics
  • Dawn Hershman, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Elaine Larson, Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology; Associate Dean of Scholarship and Research
  • Joel Lavine, Professor of Pediatrics
  • David Lederer, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Bruce Levin, Professor of Biostatistics
  • Guohua Li, Mieczyslaw Finster Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Epidemiology
  • Jose Luchsinger-Stuart, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Karen Marder, Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology
  • Mathew Maurer, Professor of Medicine
  • Harold Pincus, Professor of Psychiatry
  • Jaime Rubin, Professor of Medical Sciences; Vice Chair for Investigator Development
  • Neil Schluger, Professor of Medicine, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology
  • Elizabeth Shane, Professor of Medicine
  • Steven Shea, Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology (in Biomedical Informatics), Senior Vice Dean, College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Gregg Stone, Professor Medicine
  • Ron Wapner, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology