Yulia A Levites Strekalova,

Dr. Levites Strekalova is Associate Professor of Health Services Research, Management & Policy and Director of Evaluation and Educational Development at the UF Clinical Translational Science Institute. Dr. Strekalova’s research is focused on the scholarship and application of team science to facilitate the integration of research into healthcare practice. Dr. Strekalova’s expertise includes program planning and evaluation, teaming to enhance diverse perspectives in biomedical research and practice, and the implementation of human-human and human-machine teaming interventions to achieve the quadruple aim (i.e., improved population health outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, enhanced patient experience, and improved provider satisfaction). Dr. Strekalova is also Director of Evaluation and Educational Development for the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is a Master Mentor trained through the UF CTSI and a grant writing coaching director with the National Research Mentoring Network (U01GM132771) and a lead evaluator for the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) (U24MD017138). She co-leads the UF Team Science Academy and offers just-in-time team science workshops to trainees and junior faculty in the UF Health Sciences Center. As Director of Evaluation and Educational Development for the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UL1TR001427), she consults on educational program development and conducts evaluations of the CTSI training programs (TL1, KL2, and Mentor Academy), supports assessment of over 20 T32 programs across the UF Health Science Center, and advises UF Health MD-PhD training program on educational development and evaluation. Methodologically, she conducts mixed-methods research studies employing both qualitative (interviews, mental models, and cultural consensus) and quantitative (experiments, content and textual analyses) approaches. Dr. Strekalova has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous grants totaling over $1.5M in funding and published over 30 journal articles in a variety of healthcare, communication, and education journals.