About

Dr. Maritza Salazar Campo is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Organization and Management department at The Paul Merage School of Business, UCI, since 2016. Her academic journey includes a PhD from New York University, an MSW from the University of Southern California, and a BA from Stanford University. Her research focuses on team science, group dynamics and processes, team-based organizations, global teams, the impact of culture on work behavior, international management, and the management of innovation and learning. Professor Salazar Campo's contributions have significantly advanced understanding of high-performance teams and organizational effectiveness across various industries, including healthcare and professional services. Her work explores the intricate dynamics of teams, especially under challenging conditions such as job strain, task complexity, and cultural distance. She employs multidisciplinary research methodologies, including case studies, surveys, and field experiments, supported by funding from the NIH and NSF, to develop evidence-based interventions and curricula aimed at improving collaboration and performance. Recognized for her scholarly impact, she has received numerous awards and is actively involved in supporting the academic and professional advancement of Latinos through her role as faculty lead of the Latinx Initiative at the school.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Psychology
• Public relations
• Social Science
• Medicine
• Medical education
• Social psychology
• Engineering ethics
• Law
• Anthropology
• Pedagogy
• Knowledge management

Selected publications

• Taking the reins and letting them go: Mentorship of scientific swift teams

  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access

  Background: Complex, knowledge-intensive projects present challenges in terms of defining the work and determining roles. Time pressure makes these challenges more acute. External leadership can provide necessary direction and shape, giving the work a clear focus guiding the team's efforts. With hackathons and rapid product prototyping more feasible than they ever have been, collaborations that fast-track innovation by drawing together teams of unfamiliar experts are more common than ever. Method: Drawing on the process perspective on creative action, we seek to understand the generation of new ideas and solutions when teams are working within an extremely brief time frame of one week. The influence of mentors on these interactions has received limited attention. We fill this gap through a study of fifteen case teams who participated in a week-long boot camp where they generated proposals for public health studies, guided by mentors who were experts in the field. The teams' proposals were evaluated by independent panels, and the evaluations provided metrics for team success. Results: Our results suggest that even in short-term teams, the timing of mentor interventions is critical to team success.

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• doi.org/10.62935/pn6229

  The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching · 2024-06-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  The importance of ethnic and gender representation in academic medicine is of paramount importance. While mentoring effectively attracts and retains underrepresented individuals, scientists from underrepresented groups face barriers to high-quality mentorship. The developmental network model by Higgins and Kram suggests that a variety of people with unique knowledge, connections, and resources can help propel an individual's career and personal growth. This study experimentally tested the outcomes of a workshop series and mentorship program to assist early-career biomedical investigators from predominantly minority institutions establish and maintain developmental networks. This study provides preliminary insights into the characteristics of these developmental networks for investigators with different funding goals and how these networks evolve, potentially impacting career trajectories.

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• An Exploratory Study into the Feasibility of Integrating Virtual Reality into a Hybrid Work Modality

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

  preprintOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Insights from an AIMBE Workshop: Diversifying Paths to Academic Leadership

  Biomedical Engineering Education · 2023

  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Medical education

  Abstract The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) hosted a virtual symposium titled “Diversifying Paths to Academic Leadership” on January 27 and 28, 2022. The symposium sought to educate the community on the opportunities for and impact of leadership by biomedical engineering faculty, to encourage and invite women faculty, especially women of color, to consider and prepare to pursue leadership roles, to educate faculty on the expectations and duties of these roles, and to highlight experiences and paths to leadership of women engineering leaders. Here we review the main outcomes of the symposium to provide perspective on (1) personal visioning and positioning for leadership, (2) negotiating for success in leadership positions, and (3) leadership strategies for success specific to women faculty and where applicable, faculty of color.

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• Formative Evaluation of a Student Symptom Decision Tree for COVID-19

  Health Behavior and Policy Review · 2023-02-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Objectives: In support of schools restarting during the COVID-19 pandemic, some schools partnered with local experts in academia, education, community, and public health to provide decision-support tools for determining what actions to take when presented with students at risk for spreading infection at school. Methods: The Student Symptom Decision Tree, developed in Orange County, California, is a flow chart consisting of branching logic and definitions to assist school personnel in making decisions regarding possible COVID-19 cases in schools which was repeatedly updated to reflect evolving evidence-based guidelines. A survey of 56 school personnel evaluated the frequency of use, acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness, usability, and helpfulness of the Decision Tree. Results: The tool was used at least 6 times a week by 66% of respondents. The Decision Tree was generally perceived as acceptable (91%), feasible (70%), appropriate (89%), usable (71%) and helpful (95%). Suggestions for improvement included reducing the complexity in content and formatting of the tool. Conclusions: The data suggest that school personnel found value in the Decision Tree, which was intended to assist them with making decisions in a challenging and rapidly evolving pandemic.

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• Individual and Institutional Factors Contribute to Research Capacity Building for Early-Stage Investigators from Groups Underrepresented in Biomedical Research: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2023-04-27 · 5 citations

  articleOpen access

  BACKGROUND: Enhancement of diversity within the U.S. research workforce is a recognized need and priority at a national level. Existing comprehensive programs, such as the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI), have the dual focus of building institutional research capacity and promoting investigator self-efficacy through mentoring and training. METHODS: A qualitative comparative analysis was used to identify the combination of factors that explain the success and failure to submit a grant proposal by investigators underrepresented in biomedical research from the RCMI and non-RCMI institutions. The records of 211 participants enrolled in the NRMN Strategic Empowerment Tailored for Health Equity Investigators (NRMN-SETH) program were reviewed, and data for 79 early-stage, underrepresented faculty investigators from RCMI (n = 23) and non-RCMI (n = 56) institutions were included. RESULTS: Institutional membership (RCMI vs. non-RCMI) was used as a possible predictive factor and emerged as a contributing factor for all of the analyses. Access to local mentors was predictive of a successful grant submission for RCMI investigators, while underrepresented investigators at non-RCMI institutions who succeeded with submitting grants still lacked access to local mentors. CONCLUSION: Institutional contexts contribute to the grant writing experiences of investigators underrepresented in biomedical research.

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• Implementing an evidence-based competency model for science team training and evaluation: TeamMAPPS

  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science · 2021 · 25 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Political Science
  • Knowledge management

  INTRODUCTION: In response to a call issued by the National Research Council to investigate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of effective science teams, we designed a team training program for conducting science in collaborative contexts. METHODS: We reviewed the literature to develop an evidence-based competency model for effective science teams along with exemplary behaviors that can be used for founding team training and evaluation. We discuss the progress of teamwork and team development research that serves as a foundation for this work, as well as previous research involving team-based competencies. RESULTS: Three overarching competencies emerged from the literature as key for science team effectiveness: psychological safety, awareness and exchange, and self-correction and adaptation. These competencies are fully described, including their evidence base. CONCLUSIONS: We developed a competency model and implementation plan for a team training program specific to science teams - TeamMAPPS (Team Methods to Advance Processes and Performance in Science). This paper details steps in the implementation process, including plans for consortia dissemination, evaluation, and future development.

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• Cross-cultural perspectives on collaboration: Differences between the Middle East and the United States

  Journal of Business Research · 2021 · 18 citations

  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Public relations
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• 4457 Adopting a Team Science Communication Module for Community-Partnered Teams

  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science · 2020-06-01

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  OBJECTIVES/GOALS: There is increased recognition that patients and community members are critical to creating impactful research. To this end the UCLA CTSI Community Engagement & Research Program modified an established multidisciplinary team science communication module to train academic-community research teams. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Community partners who have had previous experience in participatory research provided input such as limiting the emphases of individual academic introductions to group icebreakers (to level the playing field), reduced academic jargon to lay language, reducing the amount of text to key principles, and changed academic team scenarios for the team activity to represent community-academic teams. Academic partners articulated institutional barriers to integrating community into institutional systems. Iterative testing and modifications occurred through pilots with eleven teams (49 individuals). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Embedding community partners in team science training involved creating a level playing field with less emphasis on academic credentials, using lay language in the didactic sessions and ensuring accessibility in all aspects of the training. An example of modifications: communication scenarios were read out loud by participants, which community partners felt were not inclusive of potential varying literacy levels and all partners may not feel comfortable reading aloud in a group setting. The vignettes were replaced with short videos of the scenarios with audio recordings. Several modifications were made the training’s team activity of the training module. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Traditional academic team science training required significant modifications for an academic/community-partnered team to allow for optimal collaboration, inclusion, and strategically reduce the power dynamics that can naturally occur. Long-term followup to assess their effectiveness is needed.

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• Hardworking coworkers: A multilevel cross‐national look at group work hours and work–family conflict

  Journal of Organizational Behavior · 2019-02-11 · 13 citations

  articleSenior author

  Summary This study investigates the relationship between coworker work hours and perceived work‐to‐family conflict (WFC) in a multinational sample of professional service employees. Building on recent research on the ways in which workgroups influence individual WFC, we demonstrate that the average hours worked by coworkers has a significant relationship to reported WFC independent of an employee's own work hours. Although this finding is universal across the multinational sample, national cultural differences were found to moderate the relationship, such that employees in more collectivist countries are more strongly influenced by average coworker hours than their counterparts in less collectivist countries. The multilevel analysis was conducted using a sample of 7,600 professional service employees in 497 different workgroups across 20 countries. The results provide support for the effect of culture on the relationship between group average hours and perceptions of WFC. We conclude with a discussion of how national culture affects WFC.

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Frequent coauthors

• Tejal A. Desai

  Nova Southeastern University

  3 shared

• Thomas A. Pearson

  University of Florida

  2 shared

• Beth L. Pruitt

  2 shared

• Kevin C. Wooten

  University of Houston - Clear Lake

  2 shared

• Andrew G. Alleyne

  University of Minnesota

  2 shared

• Eduardo Salas

  Rice University

  2 shared

• Ruixuan Wang

  University of Florida

  2 shared

• D L Kornetti

  University of Florida

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• OC 50 shaping the future of healthcare in Orange County