Full Name
Betsy Rolland
Position
Director of Team Science + Research Development for the Carbone Cancer Center and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Institution
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bio
Betsy Rolland, PhD MLIS MPH, is the Director of Team Science + Research Development for the Carbone Cancer Center and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering and a Master of Library & Information Science, both from the University of Washington, and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before coming to the UW-Madison, Dr. Rolland was a post-doctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where she conducted an evaluation of a cancer prevention-focused research network and studied the grants-making process. Her research focuses on coordination and collaboration in team-science projects, including how to design, build, and evaluate infrastructure to support complex, multi-investigator initiatives. Dr. Rolland also serves as the Principal Investigator for the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) Coordinating Center, an NCI Moonshot-funded project focused on integrating tobacco cessation services into clinical care at 52 NCI-designated cancer centers and as an MPI for the NCI-funded New Cohorts for Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risk (CEECR) Coordinating Center. Dr. Rolland serves as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the International Network for the Science of Team Science.