Nina F. Schor, M.D., Ph.D., deputy director for intramural research, National Institutes of Health, shared her insights on leveraging leadership to affect innovation with VITALS on Feb. 1 via Zoom.
Dr. Schor noted that leaders can affect innovation by providing a “30,000-foot view” of conditions in the clinical setting or the lab. “They see things other might not see,” she noted.
Leaders can also create a positive environment for innovations by forming relationships at all levels and using their leadership position as a platform to mentor.
So how does that fuel innovation?
“It creates juxtapositions that didn’t exist before,” Dr. Schor explained. “It takes a physician, who is perhaps in gastroenterology, and brings them together with the physician or the scientist that’s interested in pulmonology – just as an example – and you create aerodigestive programs that bring something to patients that they might not have gotten if they had gone to see a physician in a single specialty.”
Watch VITALS with Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D.
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