Michelle Bennett, PhD

Deputy Scientific Director for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Institutes of Health

Dr. L. Michelle Bennett is the Deputy Scientific Director for the National Hearth Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Maryland. The NHLBI Division of Intramural Research comprises approximately 60 intramural scientists and clinicians assuring cutting edge technologies and approaches are available to all researchers in the program, and establishing and maintaining clinical partnerships with local area hospitals.

Dr. Bennett works closely with Dr. Howard Gadlin, the NIH Ombudsman, on understanding the critical elements that facilitate team science and collaboration. Dr. Bennett has extensive background in promoting collaboration and team-based approaches by bringing together research scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to solve complex scientific problems. Drs. Bennett and Gadlin spearheaded an initiative to understand the fundamental characteristics that contribute to successful scientific team functioning. This work led to the production of workbook: Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide that serves as a primer for investigators who are building or participating on a research team.