KT Canada Seminar Series - Dr. Kristin Reynolds
2026-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto)
Presenters: Dr. Kristin Reynolds
Presentation topic: Engaging adults ages 55+ and community organizations across Canada in the co-development, implementation, and evaluation of a tele-health program targeting mental health and loneliness among older Canadians
Date: Thurs, March 12, 2026
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Learning objectives – by the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

Understand gaps in knowledge translation in research on aging and mental health
Explore partnership engagement methodologies in co-development and implementation science
Examine emerging findings in partnership engagement and knowledge translation

Bio
Dr. Kristin Reynolds, is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba (UM), and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She is a Leadership Fellow with the UM Centre on Aging. She is the Director of the Health Information Exchange Laboratory, where her research aims to understand and increase access to evidence-based mental health-related information and services. Dr. Reynolds is an Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research, and her work employs mixed methods, knowledge translation, and intervention science frameworks.

KT Canada Seminar Series - Dr. Heather Gainforth
2026-04-09 12:00 - 13:00
Presenters: Dr. Heather Gainforth
Presentation topic:Transforming research systems for meaningful engagement
Dr. Gainforth will discuss their research that aims to foster and support authentic partnerships. Drawing on extensive work within spinal cord injury (SCI) research, this talk will examine how the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Guiding Principles can be leveraged to foster collaboration between researchers and research users. Dr. Gainforth will provide practical strategies for upholding these principles and address barriers and facilitators to using the principles. Crucially, the talk will highlight the systemic shifts necessary to transform research systems to enable meaningful engagement.
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Date & time: Thurs, April 9, 2026; 12:00-1:00pm Eastern time
Learning objectives – by the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Explain the development and purpose of the IKT Guiding Principles in addressing tokenism and ensuring research is relevant, useful and used.
2. Analyze the multi-level barriers and facilitators that influence decisions to meaningfully engage.
3. Identify necessary systemic shifts required to enable and sustain authentic research partnerships.
Bio
Dr. Heather Gainforth is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and a Canada Research Chair in Research Coproduction and Implementation Science. Dr. Gainforth is the Director of UBC’s Centre for Health Behaviour Change and the Associate Director of Meaningful Engagement within the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries. She is a leader in meaningful engagement and research coproduction, helping to bridge gaps between researchers and those who use research. Through her work, she has led an international partnership who co-developed guiding principles for conducting and disseminating spinal cord injury (SCI) research in partnership.

KT Canada Seminar Series - Dr. Jessica Reszel
2026-05-14 12:00 - 13:00
Presenter: Dr. Jessica Reszel
Presentation topic: Translating knowledge from implementation science into practice: A toolkit to build implementation capacity in maternal-newborn care
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Date & time: Thurs, May 14, 2026; 12:00-1:00pm Eastern time
Learning objectives – by the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Identify key content areas needed to build capacity for implementation practice,
2. Describe differences between current implementation approaches and implementation-science informed approaches in maternal-newborn settings,
3. Summarize the development, core components, and initial evaluation of an implementation toolkit for maternal-newborn settings.
Bio
Dr. Jessica Reszel is a Registered Nurse who recently completed her PhD in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa, where her research focused on making implementation science knowledge practical and useful for healthcare providers in maternal-newborn settings. She currently works as a Knowledge Translation Specialist at the Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN Ontario), the province’s perinatal, newborn, and child data registry, supporting the effective use of BORN data and innovations to improve care and inform policy.
