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KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2018
2018-06-07 - 2018-06-08
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Advancing the methods of patient-oriented knowledge translation research – June 7-8, 2018
The 2018 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on June 7th & 8th in Vancouver, BC, with the theme “Advancing the methods of patient-oriented knowledge translation research”.
We will be posting additional information as it becomes available. For questions please contact Meghan Storey: storeym@smh.ca. Guest Speakers
Dr. Nick Bansback, University of British Columbia
Nick Bansback is trained in health economics and decision science. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, the Co Lead of the BC SUPPORT Unit Health Economics and Simulation Modelling Methods Cluster, and a CIHR New Investigator. His research seeks to maximize value in health care – both the value the patients derive from their own decisions, and the value the whole population derives from the decisions around the public investment in health.

Dr. Melissa Brouwers, McMaster University
Dr. Melissa Brouwers is a Professor and Lead of Health Services Research in the Department of Oncology, McMaster University; Deputy Director and Scientist, Escarpment Cancer Research Institute, McMaster University; associate member in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University and the Provincial Director (Scientific) of the Program in Evidence-based Care (PEBC), Cancer Care Ontario (CCO).
She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Melissa is an active and leading member of various national and international health services research groups with a special focus on practice guidelines including the Principal Investigator of the AGREE Enterprise – a research program aimed to improve the quality and implementability of guidelines; the Knowledge Translation Lead of the CanIMPACT project – a national program of research aimed to improve outcomes for people affected by cancer; and a member of the KT-NET Advisory Committee of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR). She is also the McMaster University co-lead for the National KT-STIHR (Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research) grant and a member of KT Canada.

Dr. Clayon Hamilton, University of British Columbia
Dr. Clayon Hamilton is a MSFHR-funded postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia and at Arthritis Research Canada, where he does Knowledge Translation Research. He obtained a masters and PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Science from Western University. His research focuses on supporting ‘Patient Engagement in Research’ as a form of the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT). Presently, he is using a combined qualitative and quantitative study design to explore the phenomenon of meaningful patient engagement in research, and to develop and test a measure to evaluate for degrees of meaningful patient engagement in research.

Ms. Alison Hoens, BC SUPPORT Unit
Alison Hoens is the Knowledge Translation Specialist for the Methods Clusters at the BC SUPPORT Unit on secondment from her positions as (1) the Knowledge Broker for the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and (2) the Research, Education and Practice Coordinator for Physiotherapy at Providence HealthCare. Alison lives with rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune gastroparesis and is the mother of a 19 year old daughter who was recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her passion for patient engagement in research is founded on the combination of her training and experience as a researcher, clinician, knowledge broker/translation specialist, patient, and caregiver for multiple family members of different generations living with chronic disease.

Dr. Tammy Hoffmann, Bond University (Australia)
Tammy is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University in Australia. She directs the Centre for Evidence-Informed Health Decisions, with her research spanning many aspects of shared decision making, evidence-based practice, knowledge translation, informed health decisions, and minimising waste in research. Her clinical qualification is as an occupational therapist and in 2017 she became an inaugural Fellow of the Occupational Therapy Australia Research Academy.
She has over 200 publications, including multiple articles in leading journals such as JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, CMAJ, and BMC Medicine. Tammy is also the lead author of a widely used inter-disciplinary evidence-based practice book (Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professions), that is now in its 3rd edition. She is currently leading international initiatives in two main areas: 1) to more closely align shared decision making and evidence-based practice, and assist patients and the public to make evidence-informed decisions about health, and 2) to improve the reporting and uptake of effective non-pharmacological interventions into practice (including development of the TIDieR statement).

Ms. Cheryl Koehn, Arthritis Consumer Experts
Ms. Cheryl Koehn is an arthritis advocate, community leader, published author and rheumatoid arthritis survivor for 29 years. Ms. Koehn has dedicated her life to helping others living with arthritis as well as people with other chronic diseases. She is the founder and president of Arthritis Consumer Experts, a national, patient-led organization that provides science-based information and education programs in both official languages to people with arthritis. She served as Co-Chair of the Summit on Standards for Arthritis Prevention and Care, and Co-Founded the Best Medicines Coalition, and was the two-time Chair of the Better Pharmacare Coalition.
Ms. Koehn served as the immediate past consumer representative Board Member of the Arthritis Alliance of Canada, is a past board member of the Arthritis Research Canada, and served in a leadership capacity on numerous other national organizations and committees. As one of North America’s leading arthritis advocates, Ms. Koehn provides a patient perspective on arthritis health and policy issues across Canada to governments, private payers, healthcare professionals, and media. She is frequently invited to speak at national and International arthritis and health-related conferences. With her team at Arthritis Consumer Experts, Ms. Koehn has led the development of numerous information and education innovations to the arthritis community, including the ArthritisID and Arthritis ID PRO iPhone apps, the blog site Arthritis Broadcast Network, the annual report card on provincial formulary performance for inflammatory arthritis medications, Canada’s Best Workplaces for Employees Living with Arthritis Award, and most recently, JointHealth Education, a series of on-line “courses” graduating today’s modern arthritis patient.

Dr. Ainsley Moore, McMaster University
Ainsley Moore (MD, MSc, CFPC) is a family physician and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at McMaster University. Her clinical, teaching and research focus on preventive health includes an appointment with the Canadian Task Force for Preventive Health Care.

Dr. Dawn Stacey, University of Ottawa
Dawn Stacey RN PhD holds a Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients and is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She is a Senior Scientist and Scientific Director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is an invited member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of her research. Her research program focuses on: a) patient decision aids; b) decision coaching; c) implementation of evidence into practice; d) telephone-based care, and e) interprofessional approaches to shared decision making. She has given over 100 invited national and international presentations. For more information visit her research program website http://decisionaid.ohri.ca.

Dr. Deborah Marshall, University of Calgary
As a Canada Research Chair, Health Services and Systems Research and the Arthur J.E. Child Chair in Rheumatology, Dr Marshall’s research programme is focused on the assessment of the value of health care interventions through measurement of patient preferences, cost-effectiveness analysis, and simulation modeling of health care delivery systems. She has experience in technology assessment agencies, academia and pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry research settings in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Dr. Marshall is the co-lead of the Economics platform for UCAN CANDU – Canada-Netherlands Personalized Medicine Network in Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease funded by the CIHR Personalized Medicine in Inflammation Network.

Registration is now open for the 2018 KT Canada Scientific Meeting.

Fees:
Regular: $650
Students & Fellows: $350

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kt-canada-scientific-meeting-2018-tickets-42763651232

Venue/ Hotel Information
You may book a room at the Coast Coal Harbour by using this link: https://aws.passkey.com/e/49545545
Please note that you must use the above link in order to get the conference room rate.

The KT Canada Scientific Meeting is being held at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel on the 7-8 June 2018.

Coast Coal Harbour Hotel is situated right near the Vancouver Harbour, a stone’s throw from the beautiful Stanley Park. Our downtown location offers convenient access to the Gastown district, the renowned shopping on Robson Street, and the incredible array of arts and entertainment that Vancouver has to offer.
Each of the guest rooms at our downtown Vancouver hotel features floor-to-ceiling windows, 55” flat screen TVs and traditional welcoming origami cranes, a symbol of hospitality. These high quality amenities are signature features of APA Hotel in Japan and unique to APA’s Urban Style Hotel concept. Here, comfort and peace of mind is paramount.

Accessibility
Coast Coal Harbour Hotel is pleased to offer state-of-the-art accessible rooms, including roll-in showers and strobe lights in case of emergencies for the hearing impaired. We also have widened door frames and a wheelchair accessible layout, all to bring the comforts of home to your travels.

Coast Coal Harbour Hotel
1180 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC, V6E 4R5
Ph: 604.697.0202
Fax: 604.697.0123

Room cancellation
Must cancel 48 hours prior to 4:00PM the day of arrival to avoid penalty. Cancellation fee of 1 night’s room and tax at confirmed rate.

Catering
Breakfast and lunch as well as snacks and refreshments during breaks are provided for all attendees from the 7-8 June.

Parking
Valet parking $34.88 per night. Abstract submissions have now closed. Many thanks to all who applied!A draft of the agenda is available.
The program for the KT Canada Scientific Meeting is available here. A huge thank you to our sponsors who are helping make this event possible.
Gold Level

Knowledge Translation (KT) Basics
2017-10-16 09:00 - 2017-10-17 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Toronto, ON, m5b 1b4, Canada
Knowledge translation (KT) is a bridge between research and real-world practice in an effort to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes. But how do you apply evidence? At the KT Program, we believe that we can implement change in the health system better by thinking about change differently. Our approach to KT is rooted in theory and science, but our application of KT is uniquely pragmatic and focused on real-world impact. Our approach to training involves empowering individuals and organizations in the health system with knowledge and support on how to do KT.
Workshop OverviewRegistration InformationApplication Instructions
Knowledge Translation (KT) Basics is a 2-day workshop on the fundamentals of implementing change using best practices in KT. In KT Basics, participants will learn how to:

Identify key KT definitions
Assess and prioritize implementation needs
Use appropriate methods to assess the quality of available evidence
Define the scope of change and ideal practices to be implemented
Identify key processes that inform the selection of implementation strategies

This workshop will benefit anyone interested in learning more about how KT can be applied to their own work. Professionals and full-time graduate students involved in all dimensions of health (e.g., acute care, long-term care, public health, mental health, etc.) are welcome to attend.
Note: this workshop will not focus on best practices in disseminating evidence/end-of-grant KT.

If you would like to discuss whether this workshop aligns with your learning goals and needs, please contact Melissa Courvoisier. Dates and Location
Dates: October 16 & 17, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
Location: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Cost
Registration for the KT Basics workshop is $850.00 CAD per person.
There are a limited number of spots reserved for students. Registration for full-time graduate students is $425.00 CAD per person.
The cost includes participation in the 2-day in-person workshop, food (coffee/tea, snacks, and lunch), and access to take-home resources. Travel to and from Toronto and accommodation during the workshop is not included.

To apply, please fill out the KT Basics workshop application form on the KT Basics website.
Application deadline: August 18, 2017 11:59 PM ET

KT Canada Summer Institute
2017-06-26 14:00 - 2017-06-28 13:00 | Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Toronto, ON, m5b 1b4, Canada
We are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute to be held in Toronto from June 26-28, 2017. The purpose of this Summer Institute is to provide participants with the opportunity to increase their understanding of knowledge translation research as well as opportunities and challenges in this field. The Summer Institute will provide participants with the chance to network with colleagues including national and international KT experts.

Applications are now open for the KT Canada Summer Institute.

The theme of the 2017 Institute is: “Patient oriented research”
The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty and research staff who study issues relevant to KT and those who want to learn more about how to advance their research skills in this area. We encourage applications from a wide range of disciplines that span all of CIHR’s research themes (biomedical, clinical, health services, and population health).

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2017
2017-06-15 - 2017-06-16 | Quebec City, Quebec, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Conference InformationAbstract SubmissionAgendaProgram
KT in primary care – June 15 and 16, 2017
Join us in Quebec City on June 15 and 16, 2017. We invite you to join the discussion on KT IN PRIMARY CARE through attendance at the KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting

Highlights:
Guest Speakers Includes:

Robbie Foy: “Implementation Research in Primary Care”
Dr. Foy is Professor of Primary Care at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences and a general practitioner in inner-city Leeds. His field of work, implementation research, aims to inform policy decisions about how best to use resources to improve the uptake of research findings by evaluating approaches to change professional and organisational behaviour. His former posts include a clinical senior lectureship at Newcastle University, and an MRC training fellowship in health services research based jointly between the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He also admits to being a trained public health physician. He was a 2006-7 Harkness / Health Foundation Fellow in Health Care Policy, based jointly between the Veteran’s Administration and RAND in Los Angeles. He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal, Implementation Science, until 2015.

Professor Michael Kidd: “Lessons from around the world on Knowledge Translation in Primary Care”
Dr. Kidd is a family doctor, primary care researcher and medical educator. He served as president of the World Organization of Family Doctors from 2013-2016, and as president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 2002-2006. He is currently Professor of Global Primary Care at Flinders University based in Adelaide in Australia. In May 2017 he will take up the position of Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Michael has wide-ranging research and education interests in global health, primary care, digital health, health policy, the education of health professionals, safety and quality in primary care, the primary care management of HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections, and the role of case reports in contemporary health care. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine and education in the areas of general practice and primary health care.

Dr. Sabrina Wong: “Engaging Practices in Improving the Science and Reporting of Performance in Primary Care”
Dr. Wong is a Registered Nurse and health services researcher located at the University of British Columbia Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and School of Nursing Dr. Wong’s research focuses on primary health care, specifically how structures (e.g., models of care) and processes (e.g., interprofessional teamwork, interpersonal communication) can enhance the delivery and organization of health services. She is a recognized leader in research involving patient-reported quality of care, her work contributes to informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty. Her current major research projects include overall leadership and responsibility for the community based primary health care innovation team grant, “Transforming Primary Health Care Through Performance Measurement and Reporting; chairing the Indicator Working Group across the 12 primary health care innovation teams, working on setting up the British Columbia Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network, and the growth and sustainability of the pan-Canadian CPCSSN.

Panel discussions:
SPOR in primary care
Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs)

Abstract submission deadline: March 19, 2017 11:59 PM ET
Please submit your abstracts here.
Please note that this is a draft agenda which we will be continually updating.
We are currently working on posting the program, please check back shortly.

KT Canada National Seminar Series – January 2017
2017-01-12 12:00 - 13:00
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KT Canada National Seminar Series – December 2016
2016-12-08 12:00 - 13:00
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End of Grant KT Workshop
2016-11-15 09:00 - 16:00 | St Michael’s Hospital, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, ON, Canada
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KT Canada National Seminar Series – November 2016
2016-11-10 12:00 - 13:00
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KT Canada National Seminar Series – October 2016
2016-10-13 12:00 - 13:00
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KT Canada National Seminar Series - September 2016
2016-09-08 12:00 - 13:00
KT Canada Presents: Jeremy Grimshaw

Title:
Increasing value and reducing waste in knowledge translation and implementation research

Learning Objectives:

To introduce the concept of research waste which limits value and progress of current research
To understand sources of waste in knowledge translation and implementation research
To discuss potential solutions to reduce waste in knowledge translation and implementation research.

Jeremy Grimshaw received a MBChB from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. Jeremy is: a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute; a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Time:
13:00 – 14:00 AT
12:00 – 13:00 ET
11:00 – 12:00 CT
10:00 – 11:00 MT
9:00 – 10:00 PT

Broadcasting Locations:
To view broadcasting locations, click here.

To Register:
This session is offered by WEBEX from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. All registration requests must be sent to Gail Klein: KleinG@smh.ca by Wednesday, September 7th at 12:00 PM ET.
To register a site: please identify one person who will be in attendance and provide their email address to Gail Klein. To register as an individual; please email Gail Klein.
PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERYONE MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND AS YOU NEED TO BE INVITED INTO THE WEBEX SESSION.
Technical requirements: You need a computer with Google Chrome and a telephone or computer microphone or headset.

Questions?
To add a site and for more information, please contact Gail Klein: KleinG@smh.ca

End of Grant KT Workshop
2016-06-15 08:00 - 12:30 | Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michaels, Hospital, 209 Victoria St, Rm. 216, Toronto, Ontario, M5B1T8, Canada
We are pleased to offer our End of Grant Knowledge Translation (KT) Course on June 15th, 2016 (8am – 12:30pm) at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. This half day course is designed to provide grant writers with the needed tools to write the KT portion of their grant applications. Course attendees will use their own grants to develop an end of grant KT plan.

Speakers include:

Kim Barnhardt, Communications and Partnerships Strategist, Canadian Medical Association Journal
Jessie McGowan, PhD, Adjunct professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Dr. Sharon Straus, Director and Principal Investigator, Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Topics covered:

A framework for end of grant KT
Assessing impact of research – how to use and interpret bibliometrics and altmetrics
Approach to media and social media

Register:
To register email Gail Klein with a one page summary of the project you will be working on for your end of grant KT plan. Space is limited and registration is on a first come first serve basis. Registration is complete once your payment is received.

Cancellation policy:
Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after June 3, 2016. A processing fee of $60 will be retained on all cancellations. Requests for cancellation must be made in writing. Registrations are not transferable. KT Canada reserves the right to cancel events. Registrants will be notified at the earliest possible date in the event of a cancellation. Registration fees for events cancelled by KT Canada will be refunded; however KT Canada will not be liable for any loss, damages or other expenses that such cancellations may cause.

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2016
2016-06-13 - 2016-06-14 | DoubleTree by Hilton, 108 Chestnut St, Toronto, ON, M5G 1R3, Canada
Join us in Toronto on June 13 and 14, 2016. We invite you to join the discussion on SCALING UP AND SUSTAINABILITY through attendance at the KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting.

Abstract Submission:
We invite interested people to submit an abstract on advancing KT science. Please specify your presentation preference: Oral, Poster or Workshop.
Deadline: for abstract submission is March 4, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET

Highlights:

Speakers include:

Dr. France Légaré, Chairholder, Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care, Full Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Université Laval
Prof. Sandy Middleton, Director, Nursing Research Institute, St Vincent’s Health Australia (Sydney) and Australian Catholic University (ACU)
Dr. Enola Proctor, Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

KT Consultation sessions (proposalsubmission required) with Ian Graham, Jeremy Grimshaw, Brian Haynes, David Johnson, France Légaré, Sumit (Me2) Majumdar, Enola Proctor, Sharon Straus, Cynthia Vinson
Panel discussion on challenges in scale and spread of complex interventions with Lee Fairclough (HQO), Michael Hilmer (MOHLTC), and Cynthia Vinson (NCI)

Cost:
$500 CAD $300 CAD for students and fellows. HST will be added to all registrations

Registration:
Registration deadline is June 6, 2016.
Register Now

The Agenda is now available.

Questions?
Questions about the abstract submissions, program or meeting in general: Gail Klein
Questions related to registration and cancellation can be directed here.

KT Canada National Seminar Series - April 2016
2016-04-14 12:00 - 13:00
KT Canada Presents: Anna Gagliardi

Title:
Patient-mediated knowledge translation (PKT) interventions for clinical encounters

Objectives:

Learn about a variety of approaches and strategies for engaging patients in their own health care
Understand how those approaches and strategies have been employed for patients with arthritis or cancer
Identify outcomes associated with these interventions
Discuss gaps in knowledge that warrant further research

Anna Gagliardi
is a Scientist at the University Health Network’s Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She held a five-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator salary award from 2008 to 2013 to specialize in knowledge translation. Currently Anna’s research focuses on how: (1) clinical practice guidelines can be better-designed to support health care decision-making by consumers and health professionals; (2) multidisciplinary teamwork can be supported to improve satisfaction with, and the efficiency of health care delivery; (3) higher risk implantable medical devices can be monitored to prevent or minimize patient harm; and (4) person-centred care can be implemented and evaluated.

Time:
13:00 – 14:00 AT
12:00 – 13:00 ET
11:00 – 12:00 CT
10:00 – 11:00 MT
9:00 – 10:00 PT

Broadcasting Locations:
To view broadcasting locations, click here.

To Register:
This session is offered by WEBEX from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. All registration requests must be sent to Gail Klein: KleinG@smh.ca by Wednesday, April 13th at 12:00 PM ET.
To register a site: please identify one person who will be in attendance and provide their email address to Gail Klein. To register as an individual; please email Gail Klein.
PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERYONE MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND AS YOU NEED TO BE INVITED INTO THE WEBEX SESSION.
Technical requirements: You need a computer with Google Chrome and a telephone or computer microphone or headset.

Questions?
To add a site and for more information, please contact Gail Klein: KleinG@smh.ca
