Current efforts in translational medicine range from analyzing gene sequences associated with treatment outcomes to methods of improving patient compliance. The multidisciplinary teams may involve a wide array of members. It remains to be seen how this type of research will be accepted in academic medicine because it often involves observational studies and critical input from many disciplines. Observational studies involving expanding registries and clinical databases show great promise but face a number of barriers (Lauer & D’Agostino

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