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KT Canada Seminar Series - Mission Impossible: An Implementation Experience with Dr. Maoliosa Donald
2023-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto)
Presenter: Dr. Maoliosa Donald
Topic: Mission Impossible: An Implementation Experience
Learning objectives:

Apply the Pathway to Implementation
Explore the application of various implementation theories, models, frameworks
Reflect on implementation efforts

Biography
Dr. Maoliosa (Mo) Donald, PhD is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine (Division of Nephrology) at the University of Calgary and is an Implementation Consultant with The Center for Implementation. She is a health services researcher and physical therapist. Dr. Donald’s research interests include interventions that support person-centered care, and innovations that address the evidence-practice gap.z

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KT Canada Seminar Series - Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai
2023-10-19 12:00 - 13:00
Topic: Help me help you: Potential roles of health economics and health technology assessment to support your research
In this presentation, after the presentation, the audience will be able to:

To recognize questions which health economics and health technology assessment can help answer
To understand how these methods can support your research and work
To observe some real-world examples of health economics and health technology assessment in action

Presenter biography:
Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai is a Program Leader and Senior Researcher of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Thailand. She is also an Affiliated Scientist at the Knowledge Translation Program (CLEAR Health Economics Unit), St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, in Canada.
Her research focuses on how to apply health economics and health technology assessment (HTA) in the real-world setting as well as how to advance methods in economic evaluation (EE). She has experience conducting EEs using various methods with specific interest in the potential of big data in health economics and HTA to support evidence generation and policy-making process.
She has also collaborated with researchers, health professionals, and policy-makers in various areas to help communicate the value of health initiatives using EE. She has contributed to the training on HTA to support health systems in Asia, Africa, and North America. Dr. Isaranuwatchai is dedicated to the creation and use of evidence in healthcare decision making.

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KT Canada Seminar Series -Dr. Nick Sevdalis, National University of Singapore
2023-09-15 09:00 - 10:00
Topic: Why and what are we controlling…? Reflections on how to design and manage control groups in hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials

In this presentation, Dr. Sevdalis will:

Offer an overview of the nature of control groups in published effectiveness-implementation hybrid trials in health
Articulate what is being controlled and with what aims and explore rationales for the choice of controls
Present illustrative case studies of hybrid trials, demonstrating different considerations in selecting control groups
Share his personal experiences of setting up and managing control groups, including how to manage potential tensions arising in control arms of hybrid trials

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KT Canada Summer Institute 2023
2023-06-14 - 2023-06-16
2023 KT Canada Summer Institute
KT Canada is pleased to be co-hosting this year’s Summer Institute with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.

See what previous participants are saying about the KT Canada Summer Institute, check it out here.
InformationSpeakersApplyAgendaSponsorsWe are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute to be held in Ottawa from June 14-16, 2023. This event is being hosted jointly with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.
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.
The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, junior faculty 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 (clinical, health services, and population health).
Registration
Registration fee for trainees and fellows will most likely be in the $300-$400 range.
Fee for jr faculty and research staff will be in the $800-$900 range.

Dr. Sharon E. Straus is a geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist who trained at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. She is the Director of the Knowledge Translation Program and Physician-in-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital and Professor in Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Quality of Care and has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and 3 textbooks in evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation and mentorship. Since 2015, she has consistently been in the top 1% of highly cited clinical researchers as per Clavirate and has an H-index of 106. She holds more than $60 million in peer-reviewed research grants as a principal investigator. She has received national awards for mentorship, research and education. She was inducted as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada in November 2021 and named as a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2021.

Dr. Linda Li is Professor and Harold Robinson/Arthritis Society Chair at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, and Senior Scientist at Arthritis Research Canada. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient-oriented Knowledge Translation. Linda’s research centers on improving the care for people with arthritis and supporting patient self-care. Her work focuses on the integration of online, mobile, and wearable tools in health care. Examples include the use of interactive decision aids for improving communication between patients and health professionals, and the use of wearables and apps to promote physical activity in people with arthritis. Linda’s work in knowledge translation and implementation science has led to a new line of studies on the benefits of engaging patients and the public in the research process.

Dr. Melissa Brouwers is a Professor and the Director of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Ottawa. She also holds appointments at McMaster University in the Department of Oncology and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI). At SEPH, Dr. Brouwers is a co-leader of the Knowledge Synthesis and Application Unit (https://www.ksau.ca/) and a co-lead of the AGREE Research Enterprise (www.agreetrust.com). Dr. Brouwers holds a wealth of experience as a health services researcher with special interest in knowledge translation, implementation science and evaluation, and knowledge synthesis and guidelines. She has a passion for graduate school education and international research collaborations. She obtained her PhD in Social Psychology from Western University.

Dr. Squires’ research is primarily focused on improving knowledge translation by healthcare professionals. Her current research centers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of theory-informed and context-optimized interventions to increase healthcare professionals’ use of research and research-based behaviours as a strategy to contribute to improved patient and system outcomes. Her research program has four main foci: (1) exploring organizational context and its role in knowledge translation, (2) designing and testing theory-informed interventions to change healthcare professionals’ behaviours, (3) measurement and survey design/psychometrics, and (4) systematic reviews. She is currently involved in several nationally funded projects examining the role of context in knowledge translation and developing and testing interventions to change behaviour of healthcare professionals (e.g., increasing organ donation in adult hospitals, improving hand hygiene practice in adult hospitals, improving pain practices in pediatric hospitals, and improving resident outcomes in nursing homes).

Dr. Kednapa Thavorn is a Senior Scientist and a Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is also an Associate Professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, and an Adjunct Scientist at ICES (Full Status). She holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto. She completed post-doctoral fellowship programs in Applied Pharmacoeconomics from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Health Services Research from the IHPME, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health economics, health technology assessment, pharmacoepidemiology, health equity, care for people with complex needs, and population health. As a health economist, she has collaborated with researchers and policymakers in Canada and internationally on various health services research projects. OHRI Page: https://www.ohri.ca/profile/kthavorn

Dr. Andrea Patey is a Senior Clinical Research Associate within the Centre for Implementation Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and an Adjunct Professor at School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa and School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University. She holds a PhD in Health Psychology from City, University of London.
Her research sits at the intersection of behaviour sciences and implementation research applying psychological theory and methods to explain and change health professional behaviours across a range of clinical settings. Andrea’s specific interest centres around whether implementation (starting an evidence-based clinical practice behaviour) and de-implementation (stopping an ineffective or harmful clinical practice behaviour) differ, and correspondingly, whether interventions to target each should also differ. The broad objectives of her research are to promote the use of theory and rigorous methods to improve the delivery of evidence-based healthcare through the development and evaluation of complex behaviour change interventions.

Professor Dawn Stacey is a Distinguished University Professor who holds the University Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients (2012-2024). As a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, she is the scientific director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group and member of the Centre for Implementation Research. She has expertise in decision sciences and implementation science. Her research is focused on developing, evaluating, and implementing interventions to support patients so they can be active partners in making health care decisions. She created and leads the pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support (COSTaRS) research group. Dr. Stacey also leads interdisciplinary research teams in conducting original research with practical application for health care services, patients, families, health care professionals, and uOttawa students, which is directly in line with the core aspirations in uOttawa’s strategic plan, Transformation 2030.
In recognition of her outstanding and continuous accomplishments in research, she has received the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Research of Excellence Award (2020), the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research (2020-2021), Distinguished University Professor (2021-2022) and fellowships with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), and the Canadian Academy of Nursing (FCAN).

Michele Whiteduck is an Algonquin Anishinaabe Ikwe from Pikwakanagan First Nation.
She graduated in 2014 from Lakehead University in Thunder bay ON from the Native Language Instructor’s Program. She is a certified Native language teacher and has worked in the education department for the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan first nation from 2009 to present date. Michele teaches Algonquin language and culture from kinder level to grade 8 in the elementary schools in Eganville ON. Michele has also facilitated adult Algonquin language classes, drumming and singing and moccassin making within her community and Algonquin College at the Pembroke site. She enjoys sewing, drumming and singing and taking part in traditional ceremonies. Michele is a mother to 6 children and a Grandmother to 14 Grandchildren, She is very Family oriented and enjoys spending time with family and building memories.

Additional speakers and details will coming soon! Applications will be opening soon for the 2023 Summer Institute!
This year’s Summer Institute will be held jointly with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. It will be held in Ottawa, ON on June 14-16.
Applications are OPEN and we have extended the deadline to Sunday, March 12th.
Apply Here
Email Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to with questions. Sessions for this Summer Institute include (subject to change):

Introduction to knowledge translation/ knowledge mobilization – What it is, and isn’t
What are theories, models & frameworks and how to choose between them
Engaging knowledge users
KT interventions of proven effectiveness
Evaluation using mixed methods
Evaluation using economic analyses
Small group work
Poster sessions
Panel discussions
Mentoring

More schedule details will be posted here as they are finalized. Many thanks to our sponsors who help make the Summer Institute possible.
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KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2023
2023-05-11 - 2023-05-12
2023 KT Canada Scientific Meeting
KT Canada is pleased to be co-hosting this year’s meeting with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.

Conference InformationGuest SpeakersRegistration and Hotel BookingAgendaProgramInfo for abstract presentersThe 2023 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on May 11-12, 2023 in Ottawa, Canada in a hybrid format.
Abstract submission is now closed.
Registration will be opening soon – information will be posted under the “Registration” tab.
Further updates will be posted here, on our Twitter account (@KTCanada) and in the KT Canada weekly newsletter.
For questions please contact Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to.

Meet with a KT Expert at the KT Canada-SEPH Scientific Meeting
In-person attendees of the KT Canada-SEPH Scientific Meeting have the opportunity to request a one-on-one, 20-minute meeting with a KT expert to discuss a specific question or topic related to their work and research. We refer to these as “KT consults”.
The KT consult spaces are limited and we will do our best to set up a meeting for you with the expert of your choice (although we cannot guarantee it).
The online request form will go live, at the following link, on Thursday, April 27th at 12:00pm EST: https://knowledgetranslation.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6ROjvq3DIFOSvky
The request form will close at 11:59pm EST on Weds, May 3rd.
Please note that you must be registered to attend the meeting in-person in order for your request to be considered. We recommend completing your request form sooner than later in order improve your chance of meeting with your top choice.
How does the process work?
-We will aim to grant the first choice of each request as they come in, and as spots are available.
-If your first choice is no longer available when you make your request, we will try to give you your second choice (and so on).
-We will try to give as many people as possible at least one of their requests (but it may not be possible in every case).
The KT Consults will take place in-person at the Scientific Meeting, from 4:15-5:15pm ET on Thursday, May 11th. We will contact you once the online form closes to let you know the results of your request.
We have confirmed the following KT experts for the consult sessions:
Dr. Jamie Brehaut
Dr. Melissa Brouwers
Dr. Ian Graham
Dr. Dawn Stacey
Dr. Sharon Straus
Requests will close at 11:59pm EST on Weds, May 3rd and we will be in touch with everyone afterwards. Clayon Hamilton, PhD is a health services researcher by training, Dr. Hamilton takes an evidence-informed and partnership approach to leadership in healthcare. After obtaining a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University, he completed postdoctoral training in health services and knowledge translation at the University of British Columbia. He supported evaluation within the primary care sector at the BC Ministry of Health as a CIHR-MSFHR Health System Impact Fellow, and held leadership roles in the provincial community-based mental health and substance use sector and the long-term care sector in BC’s largest regional health authority. Currently, Dr. Hamilton is a Knowledge Exchange Lead at BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, a program within the Provincial Health Services Authority.
In addition, he holds adjunct faculty appointments from both the University of British Columbia, where he teaches a research course to medical students, and Simon Fraser University, where he teaches a certificate course on evaluating engagement. Passionate about meaningful partnerships, Dr. Hamilton’s work embraces the principles of meaningful engagement, and he leads projects to support patient engagement in research and healthcare system decision-making. His work has contributed evidence-based tools to support the practice and evaluation of patient engagement, including, notably, the validated Patient Engagement In Research Scale (PEIRS), a significant resource for evaluating patient and family engagement in research. Dr. Hamilton has received several highly competitive awards and grants and co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles. In his spare time, he enjoys going for runs with his family.

Maureen Smith has a long history of collaboration with the healthcare system subsequent to a rare disease diagnosis in childhood. She is the chair of Cochrane’s Consumer Network Executive and commissioner on the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges. Maureen is currently involved in three studies that use the integrated knowledge translation (iKT) approach and participated in a systematic review on decision coaching that was her introduction to iKT. As Chair of Ontario’s Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit’s Patient Partner Working Group and Board Member, she has a keen interest in co-production and knowledge translation.

Dr. Richard Oster is the Scientific Director of the Indigenous Wellness Core of Alberta Health Services, based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Richard is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Sciences (University of Alberta) and in the Department of Community Health Sciences
(University of Calgary.). His research takes a strengths-based and partnership approach, building specifically on Indigenous ways of knowing and the resilience and abundance within communities, as opposed to using a deficit-focused western lens which tends to dominate the field.

Dr. Marcia Anderson is Cree-Anishinaabe and grew up in the North End of Winnipeg. Her family roots go to
Peguis First Nation and Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba. She practices both Internal Medicine and
Public Health as a Medical Officer of Health with Indigenous Services Canada- Manitoba Region. She is the
Vice-Dean, Indigenous Health, Social Justice and Anti-Racism and the Executive Director of Indigenous
Academic Affairs in the Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health
Sciences, University of Manitoba. She serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Health Network of the
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Chair of the National Consortium for Indigenous
Medical Education. She was recognized for her contributions to Indigenous Peoples health with a National
Aboriginal Achievement Award in March 2011. In 2018 she was named one of the 100 most powerful women
in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network. In 2021 she received the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award, and in 2022 was named the Doctors Manitoba
Physician of the Year.

Dr. Katrina Plamondon is an RN and Assistant Professor and Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar at the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her work as an equity scholar is grounded in critical anti-oppressive pedagogy and relational theory and practices. Her research focuses on critical questions about how to facilitate integration of equity-centred principles and practices across sectors and settings, equipping people to engage in practices, partnerships, policy and society in ways that contribute to more equitable futures. She plays a national leadership role in advancing health equity.

Priscille-Nice Sanon is a sickle cell survivor. She was diagnosed with Sickle Cell type SS at birth. Due to complication to this disease, she has received over 100 blood transfusion and a bone marrow transplant. She is involved in patient engagement and has a passion for health research. She graduated with a master degree in pharmaceutical science: pharmacoepidemiology from Université Laval. She was also involved with the Quebec SPOR unit as a patient coordinator for University Laval and collaborated on several research projects as a patient. Being a patient partner allowed her to put her passion for research and volunteering at work while being able to make a lasting impact on health research.

Garry Aslanyan: As Manager of Partnerships and Governance for the World Health Organization’s Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Dr Garry Aslanyan is responsible for TDR’s wide range of engagements with global health stakeholders, including mobilizing programme resources and TDR’s governing bodies. TDR has a unique relationship with co-sponsors: UNICEF, World Bank, UNDP and WHO. This includes applying research evidence in global health programming of the co-sponsors and collaborating with six regional WHO offices which is overseen by Dr Aslanyan, including the highly successful impact grants tackling public health challenges in those regions. In addition, Dr Aslanyan is the Head of the ESSENCE on Health Research Secretariat that provides support to its Steering Committee and funding agencies which are members of ESSENCE to move forward on various activities.
Garry is also the host of the highly popular Global Health Matters podcast and leads its production team.
Dr Aslanyan is Canadian, with a background in dentistry, public health, research/innovation management, health policy/systems as well as global health diplomacy. Prior to joining TDR, Dr Aslanyan has taken on various roles that allowed him to lead various organizational and technical innovations and is a recognized leader in global public health. As well as holding senior executive positions within Canada’s federal government and as the past President of the Ontario Public Health Association, Dr Garry Aslanyan has experiences living and working across the world including in Brazil, South Africa, Armenia, Barbados and Vietnam.

Dr. Jamie Brehaut is a Senior Scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Full Professor in the School of Epidemiology & Public at the University of Ottawa, and member of the Centre for Implementation Science and the Ottawa Methods Centre. Dr. Brehaut holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from McMaster University. Trained in issues of human memory, attention, and cognition, Dr. Brehaut has expertise in knowledge translation and implementation, psychological theory, judgement and decision making, decision support, and issues in caregiver health. Much of his work focuses on the application of psychological theory to facilitate health care practice change and ethical issues in health care decision making. His work involves a wide range of clinical disciplines (e.g. emergency medicine, critical care, oncology, lab medicine, public health).

Dr. Presseau is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology & Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. As a behavioural scientist, he leads the Psychology and Health Research Group (PaHRG) and is a core faculty member of the Centre for Implementation Research at the Ottawa Hospital. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen (UK). His research program operates at the intersection between behavioural science and implementation science, focusing on developing and evaluate interventions to support changing healthcare professional behaviours and health behaviours of patients and the public.

Dr. Elton-Marshall is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. Her research evaluates addiction and substance use-related policies and programs with the goal of providing the evidence needed to strengthen future policy and programming, and ultimately reducing addiction and substance use problems. She is currently the Nominated Principal Investigator (NPI) on a CIHR funded team grant to evaluate the impact of cannabis policy in Ontario.

Dr. Melissa Brouwers is a Professor and the Director of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Ottawa. She also holds appointments at McMaster University in the Department of Oncology and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI). At SEPH, Dr. Brouwers is a co-leader of the Knowledge Synthesis and Application Unit (https://www.ksau.ca/) and a co-lead of the AGREE Research Enterprise (www.agreetrust.com). Dr. Brouwers holds a wealth of experience as a health services researcher with special interest in knowledge translation, implementation science and evaluation, and knowledge synthesis and guidelines. She has a passion for graduate school education and international research collaborations. She obtained her PhD in Social Psychology from Western University.

Dr. Brent Moloughney is the Deputy Medical Officer of Health at Ottawa Public Health where he leads a team of Associate Medical Officers of Health that proactively provides medical expertise and strengthens capacity for innovation and quality across the organization’s programs and services.
Brent is a public health and preventive medicine specialist with over 25 years of experience at regional, provincial and national levels. For 18 of those years, he was an independent consultant working with public health organizations across the country. Prior to his return to Ottawa in early 2020, Brent was based at Public Health Ontario where he was a Medical Director and then Interim Chief of the Department of Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. Brent has clinical faculty positions at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Sameera Hussain is a global health policy expert working at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. Her current work is focussed on transformation in the post-COVID19 context using systems approaches for effective, evidence-based policy-making. She works at the Public Health Agency of Canada, advancing strategic priorities for public health renewal. She is passionate about knowledge mobilization to bridge the evidence to policy gap in health systems. Dr. Hussain operates through a lens of intersectional feminism and social justice, and is committed to the mentorship of early-career women scholars from racialized communities/global South who are working in health policy and systems research. She maintains an active research agenda around health equity, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), structural determinants of health, and whole-of-government approaches to health and well-being.
Dr. Hussain holds a doctorate in global public health and degrees in political and development studies. She serves on the editorial board of BMC’s Globalization and Health Journal, where she recently spearheaded a special journal issue on health intersectoralism in the SDG era. She was recognized in 2020 on the Canadian Women in Global Health list.

Dr Lynne Leonard is a social epidemiologist and Associate Professor and Research Scientist in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health.
A social scientist by training, Dr Leonard is particularly interested in the social determinants of health and in conducting community-based research to effect policy and programme change at the community, provincial and national level. She obtained her PhD in social policy and epidemiology and biostatistics from McGill University focusing her work in the area of HIV prevention.
An active research investigator in the HIV/AIDS field for many years, as Principal Investigator Dr Leonard has directed several collaborative studies in HIV prevention research at the national, provincial and local level. In Ottawa, her HIV prevention research began some thirteen years ago with the community evaluation of the Site Needle Exchange Programme and has continued to focus on working with women at higher risk of HIV and with women and men who inject drugs. She has directed the Ottawa site of the interprovincial SurvIDU project for over six years. The widely disseminated results of this study have generated substantial programme and policy developments in response to the documented situation of an extremely high level of HIV infection among Ottawa injection drug users.
Dr Leonard is currently Principal Investigator of two community-based cohort studies employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, to more fully understand, from the perspectives of injection drug users themselves, the individual and structural factors contributing to the unacceptably high level of HIV and HCV infection among women and men in Ottawa who inject drugs. With the support of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and as Principal Investigator she will continue her work with this community to assess the need for a safer injection facility in Ottawa.
As a firm proponent of of the necessity to transfer research into programme and policy reformulation and development, Dr Leonard is a member of many national, provincial and local committees and advisory boards focusing on policy and programme development to reduce the harm associated with injection drug use and serves as a member and Chair on a range of national and provincial Scientific Review Boards including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She has been nominated to the Ontario Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and to the Ontario Provincial Working Group on Hepatitis C – both groups provide advice and guidance to the Provincial Minister of Health who is a member of both groups.
Dr Leonard holds competitive research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, the Community-based Research Programme of the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS and is a research scholar of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network. In 2002, Dr Leonard received the New Investigator Award from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Research Association.

Dr. Erin Cameron is an Associate Professor of Medical Education at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSMU) in Thunder Bay, Canada. As a mid-career educational scientist, Dr. Cameron’s research focuses on social justice pedagogies and practices that support transformation of local education and health systems. With regional, provincial, and national funding, Dr. Cameron’s work is interdisciplinary with broad impact and a community focus. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, $4M funding; 140 conference presentations; and has worked with over 35 trainees.
In addition to an active research program, socially accountable leadership is at the heart of Dr. Cameron’s work. She is the inaugural Academic Director of the Centre for Social Accountability, a multidisciplinary centre at NOSM U dedicated to the improvement of health and wellness in Northern Ontario. The Centre is home to two research networks MERLIN (the Medical Education Research Lab in the North) and NORTHH (Northern Ontario Towards Health Hub), and the International Steering Committee on Accreditation and Social Accountability, a global think-tank for establishing standards around social accountability. Through strategic policy leadership and advocacy, research and innovation, and education, the Centre is quickly becoming a frontrunner in the improvement of sustainable equity, access, and population health outcomes. As a social accountability leader in Canada, Dr. Cameron is the Co-Chair of the Social Accountability Network within the Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada (AFMC) and a member of the Standing Committee on Social Accountability in the AFMC.
Prior to joining NOSMU, she held a faculty appointment at Memorial University of Newfoundland and enjoyed a varied career as a professional athlete and journalist. Erin loves living in Northern Ontario and enjoys vibrant outdoor adventures with her partner and four young children.

Michele Whiteduck is an Algonquin Anishinaabe Ikwe from Pikwakanagan First Nation.
She graduated in 2014 from Lakehead University in Thunder bay ON from the Native Language Instructor’s Program. She is a certified Native language teacher and has worked in the education department for the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan first nation from 2009 to present date. Michele teaches Algonquin language and culture from kinder level to grade 8 in the elementary schools in Eganville ON. Michele has also facilitated adult Algonquin language classes, drumming and singing and moccassin making within her community and Algonquin College at the Pembroke site. She enjoys sewing, drumming and singing and taking part in traditional ceremonies. Michele is a mother to 6 children and a Grandmother to 14 Grandchildren, She is very Family oriented and enjoys spending time with family and building memories.

Alison Bourgon has held various leadership positions during her twelve years at CIHR. In her current role, she oversees the breadth of CIHR’s science policies and strategies, including work in the areas of capacity development; ethics; equity, diversity and inclusion; health research data; knowledge translation; open science; and research excellence.

Registration is now open for the 2023 KT Canada – SEPH Scientific Meeting!

CONFERENCE FEES
Regular: $800
Students & Fellows: $450
Online only: $235
Patients and Caregivers: Please contact Meghan directly: Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to
The deadline to register is Monday, May 8th.
Register HERE

Venue/ Hotel Information
You may book a room at the Delta Hotel by using this link.
Please note that you must use the above link in order to get the conference room rate.

You must book your room by April 11th in order to receive the conference room rate. If you run into any issues while making your reservation, please email Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to.
The KT Canada – SEPH Scientific Meeting is being held at the Delta Hotel at 101 Lyon St. North, Ottawa, on May 11-12, 2023.
Hotel website: click here
Hotel Address: 101 Lyon St. North, Ottawa, Ontario
Phone: +1 613-237-3600
Download agenda here

Sci Mtg 2023_Agenda_April 11Coming soon Oral Presentations
Oral presenters will get 15 minutes total – this includes 10 minutes of presenting and 5 minutes of Q&A. If the presentation goes longer than 10 minutes, the Q&A will be shortened. Oral presenters should send their slides to Meghan Storey by May 1st.
Poster Presentations

The poster board surface is 91” wide, and 45” tall.
In terms of poster format – we do not have requirements, but we have included some resources below:
How to create a better research poster in less time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk29tnxASs
Templates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk29tnxASs
Poster presenters will get 30 seconds to introduce their work to the full group. Please prepare 1 slide for this and send to Meghan Storey by May 1st. You can send the slide in PDF or PPT format. There will be 40 posters total.

KT Canada Summer Institute 2022
2022-06-16 - 2022-07-21
2022 KT Canada Summer Institute
InformationSpeakersApplyAgendaSponsorsWe are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Virtual Summer Institute, to be held online in Summer 2022.
Please note that the virtual Summer Institute will take place during weekly sessions – Thursday afternoons (Eastern Time), from June 16 – July 21, 2022.
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 change to network with colleagues including national KT experts.
The theme of the 2022 Institute is: ‘Opportunities to advance KT science’.
The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty who study issues relevant to KT and those who want to learn more about how to advance their research skills in this area.

Registration Cost – please note that these figures are subject to change. We do not expect them to increase but they may decrease.
Cost for trainees: $175
Cost for non-trainees (junior faculty, research staff): $300
Additional speakers TBD. Confirmed speakers to date:

Dr. Melissa Brouwers
Dr. Melissa Brouwers is the Director of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Dr. Brouwers was a Professor in the Departments of Oncology (primary) and Health Research Methodology, Evidence and Impact (affiliate) at McMaster University where she also served as the Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care, the guidelines program for Cancer Care Ontario; the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Implementation at Hamilton Health Sciences; and the Deputy Director of the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Brouwers holds a wealth of experience as a health services researcher with special interest in knowledge translation, implementation science and evaluation. Furthermore, she has a passion for graduate school education and international research collaborations. She obtained her PhD in Social Psychology from Western University.
Dr. Janet Curran
Dr. Janet Curran, Quality and Patient Safety Applied Research Chair (IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health), is a Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, Co-Principal Investigator at the SPOR Evidence Alliance and Co-Director of the JBI Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University. Dr. Curran works with patients, families, and healthcare providers to co-design interventions to improve health outcomes and health system change.

Dr. Khaled El Emam
Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa, where he is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including synthetic data generation and de-identification methods. Khaled is co-founder and CEO of Replica Analytics, a company that develops synthetic data generation technology, which was recently acquired by Aetion. As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded six product and services companies involved with data management and data analytics, with some having successful exits. Prior to his academic roles, he was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement. He held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005 to 2015. Khaled has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.

Dr. Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, PhD, is Full Professor at the Faculty of Nursing at Laval University and scientist at the VITAM Research Center in Sustainable Health, and the Quebec University Hospital Centre. She holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Technologies and Practices in Health. Her research program focuses on the evaluation of digital health technologies, the organisational, professional and individual determinants of digital health adoption and integration in the healthcare system, patient and public involvement in healthcare decisions, systematic reviews and best practices in knowledge translation and application.

Dr. Clayon Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton worked as the Regional Practice Lead in Research and Knowledge Translation (Long-Term Care) at Fraser Health Authority where he used research and partnerships to integrate evidence into practice to improve the quality of care, life, and work-life in the long-term care sector. A trained health services researcher, he completed a 2-year Health System Impact Fellowship supporting evaluation and system improvement as an embedded scholar at the BC Ministry of Health. He undertook postdoctoral training in knowledge translation and in health services at the University of British Columbia funded by CIHR and Michael Smith Health Research BC. His research has contributed to advancing the practice and evaluation of meaningful patient and family caregiver engagement in research and in health system decision-making. Dr. Hamilton holds a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Measurement and Methods) from Western University and a MSc from the same program. During his graduate and post-graduate training, he received several research awards and published in respected journals. Passionate about meaningful partnerships, Dr. Hamilton continues to lead and collaborate on projects to advance patient and family engagement in research, as well as more broadly in health system decision-making.
Dr. Janet Jull
Dr. Janet Jull is a settler-scholar with a Ph.D. in Population Health from the University of Ottawa. Dr. Jull develops and evaluates shared decision making tools and approaches to support client-centred care with a particular focus on health care systems. Much of Janet’s work is done in partnerships with urban Indigenous, Inuit, First Nations, and Métis communities.
Dr. Jull also investigates how research is conducted in partnerships, specifically when those who are engaged in the production of research, partner with those who contend with the real-world needs and constraints of health systems. Dr. Jull’s work is focused on ensuring that research contributes knowledge that can be translated into more equitable and strengthened health systems. Dr. Jull co-leads the SPOR Evidence Alliance Indigenous Peoples Working Group (IPWG), whose mission is to ensure all knowledge synthesis and related activities promote Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and are respectful and inclusive of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, being, and doing.

Dr. Bryn Lander
Dr. Lander works in the Testing Secretariat in the COVID-19 Taskforce at Health Canada. Within this role she has helped to identify knowledge gaps in COVID-19 testing, screening and surveillance and liaised with clinicians and researchers across Canada in the development of research proposals to address these gaps. Dr. Lander also supported the development of a variety of COVID-19 testing policy and guidance documents for the government and the general public and organizes weekly meetings with the provinces and territories to share knowledge on testing, contact tracing and data. Dr. Lander holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia and conducted two implementation science evaluations for her post doctoral research in Vancouver. The first was an integrated knowledge translation project assessing the implementation of new clinician ordering processes in two hospitals. The second compared evaluation of a gynecological practice change between British Columbia and Ontario.
Dr. Anne Sales
Anne Sales is a nurse and Professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing and the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri (Columbia). She is also a Research Scientist at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Her training is in sociology, health economics, econometrics, and general health services research. Her work involves theory-based design of implementation interventions, including: understanding how feedback reports affect provider behavior and through behavior change have an impact on patient outcomes; the role of social networks in implementation interventions; and effective implementation methods using electronic health records and digital interventions. She has completed over 40 funded research projects, many focused on implementation research. She is a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Science Communications.
Dr. JD Schwalm
Dr. Schwalm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at McMaster University. He is an Interventional Cardiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences and Niagara Health with clinical interests in both coronary and structural interventions (including Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair). Dr Schwalm is a Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute and Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Implementation (CEBI). His research focus is knowledge translation/implementation sciences as it relates to the field of cardiology at the patient, physician, and health system level. Dr Schwalm has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and 4 book chapters. He has ongoing research collaborations with KT Canada, the World Health Organization and the World Heart Federation.
Dr. Dawn Stacey
Dawn Stacey RN PhD FAAN FCAHC FCAN 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 leads the Cochrane Review of Patient Decision Aids, co-chairs of the Steering Committee for the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration (IPDAS) and collaborates on the Cochrane Review of Interventions for Increasing the Use of Shared Decision Making. More specifically, 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 >290 peer-reviewed publications and given >160 invited national and international presentations. In 2020, she won the Nursing Research Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of Schools of nursing and the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research. For more information visit her research websites https://decisionaid.ohri.ca; https://ktcanada.ohri.ca/costars
Dr. Amol Verma
Amol Verma is a physician, scientist, and Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. He is working to study and improve hospital care using electronic clinical data. Amol co-leads GEMINI, Canada’s largest hospital clinical data analytics network, which is collecting data from >30 hospitals in Ontario. He is a Provincial Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement in General Internal Medicine with Ontario Health, a 2020 AMS Healthcare Fellow in Compassion and AI, and the Vice-Chair of the Researcher Council of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Amol completed medical training at the University of Toronto, a Masters degree at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and research fellowships through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Clinician Investigator Program and the Canadian Frailty Network. Applications are now open for the KT Canada Summer Institute. You can submit your information in either English or French.
What you’ll need for the application:
Junior faculty & research staff:

Name, email address, contact address
Institution, role title, and area of research
A description of your current research interests and how they relate to knowledge translation and knowledge translation research (500 words)
An abstract for a presentation of your research (300 words)
For those with results: Background, Methods, Results and Discussion/conclusions;
For those with research proposals: Background, Methods, Planned Analysis, Expected Outcomes
Canadian Common CV – Academic (draft version acceptable): https://ccv-cvc.ca/
NB: International applicants should submit an equivalent CV (one that is used for grant applications)

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows:

Name, email address, contact address
Academic institution, program of study, year of study
Supervisor’s name and title
A description of your current research interests and how they relate to knowledge translation and knowledge translation research (500 words)
A description of your expectations and how the training program would facilitate your career goals (500 words)
An abstract for a presentation of your research (300 words)For those with results: Background, Methods, Results and Discussion/conclusions;
For those with research proposals: Background, Methods, Planned Analysis, Expected Outcomes
Support letter from one referee
Canadian Common CV – Academic (draft version acceptable): https://ccv-cvc.ca/
NB: International applicants should submit an equivalent CV (one that is used for grant applications)

You may submit your application here:
The deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday, Feb. 27 2022, 11:59 PM Eastern time. SI Agenda_Feb 22_Posted
Many thanks to our sponsors who help make the Summer Institute possible.

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2022
2022-05-04 - 2022-05-06
Conference InformationGuest SpeakersRegistrationAgendaProgramFor Abstract Presenters The 2022 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on May 4-6, 2022 in a *virtual* format.
The theme is ‘Developing and evaluating tailored dissemination strategies for different audiences: What have we learned from dissemination science during COVID-19?’
The deadline for submitting abstracts has now passed.
Please see the “Guest Speakers” tab for information about conference speakers and the “Registration” tab for information about registering.
Further updates will be posted here, on our Twitter account (@KTCanada) and in the KT Canada weekly newsletter.
For questions please contact Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to.

Dr. Rinad Beidas
Rinad Beidas, PhD, is the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit; Founder and Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute (PISCE@LDI); and Associate Director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Ethics and Health Policy; and Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Major scientific discoveries have produced scores of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to improve health and mental health. Unfortunately, many of these EBPs never make their way into routine health care delivery. Implementation science is the study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of EBPs into routine care with the broad goal of ensuring that scientific discoveries realize their potential and improve people’s lives. Her research program is designed to improve the quality of health and mental health services through implementation science. To conduct this work, she collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policy-makers, to develop natural laboratories in which to answer questions of interest. These labs span diverse health care settings, including community mental health clinics in Philadelphia, the network of Penn Medicine clinics and hospitals serving individuals with cancer, health centers providing HIV care, and the Mental Health Research Network, a national practice-based research network of 14 healthcare systems. Broadly, her work entails three primary foci that draw upon the methods of implementation science: (a) understanding the context in which individuals will implement EBPs, (b) developing implementation approaches that target the factors that may accelerate or hinder implementation, and (c) conducting pragmatic trials to test these implementation approaches. She does this work across disease areas (e.g., mental health, cancer, HIV). She has been identified as a leading implementation scientist and has published approximately 200 articles in this area. She serves as MPI on 2 NIH Centers on behavioral economics and implementation science (P50 MH 113840, P50 CA 244690) and has a strong record of NIH-funded implementation research serving as MPI or PI of 10 NIH grants totaling approximately $30 million dollars. She is deeply committed to training the next generation of implementation scientists and mentors graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty through a variety of mechanisms including a T32 at the intersection of implementation science and mental health. Dr. Beidas holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from Colgate University and a doctorate of philosophy in psychology from Temple University. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies President’s New Researcher Award in 2015; the American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award; and the Perelman School of Medicine Marjorie Bowman New Investigator Research Award in 2017.

Naomi Lee
Naomi Lee is a Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet. She heads the research section of the journal, and handles peer review and commissioning across a broad range of subjects including her specialist areas of surgery, oncology, digital medicine/AI, and medical technology. She is also a vice chair for the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health. Naomi joined The Lancet in 2014. Previously she studied medicine at Cambridge University and King’s College London, before training in surgery, specialising in urology and working for almost 10 years in the UK. She has completed fellowships in Argentina and Mexico. She has also studied data science at University College London.

Doriane Etienne
Doriane is a PhD Candidate in clinical and biomedical sciences at Laval University under the supervision of Holly Witteman, PhD. She is affiliated with VITAM – Centre de recherche en santé durable and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval. Trained in public health and health marketing and communication, she worked as a project manager in public health and then in digital transformation of organizations. She is currently interested in the design, development and evaluation of user-centered digital health tools in the context of infectious diseases.

Dr. Christine Fahim
Christine (Tina) Fahim is a research scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Knowledge Translation program and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation. Christine obtained her MSc in Health Systems at the University of Ottawa followed by a PhD in Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact from McMaster University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Surgery. She holds an Assistant Scientist position in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She specializes in the science and practice of knowledge translation.

Dr. Sarah Funnell
Dr. Funnell is a First Nations Family Physician and Public Health Specialist. Sarah is an Associate Medical Officer of Health at Ottawa Public Health and Director of Indigenous Health within the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University. Previously Sarah offered Primary Care services for refugees, immigrants, homeless and Indigenous people. Since March 2020, Sarah has directed her attention towards supporting the COVID-19 response and advancing Indigenous Health Medical Education. After completing medical school at the University of Ottawa (U of O), Dr. Funnell pursued her dual interests in family medicine and epidemiology through the five-year Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program at U of O. She received her Certification in the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CCFP) in 2015 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2018. Her background is Algonquin (Kitigan Zibi) and Tuscarora and grew up among the Mississaugas of Alderville First Nation. Sarah is on the Board of Directors of both the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and the Board of Directors of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She is also on the Executive of the National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME). Sarah is past co-Chair of the Indigenous Health Committee at the CFPC and also sits on the Indigenous Health Advisory Committee at the Royal College. She is currently working with both colleges to improve Indigenous Health Curriculum in all residency programs. She is lives in Ottawa with her husband and 3 daughters. In her spare time she speaks to her plants.

Dr. Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal, where he is professor of information science and associate vice-president (planning and communications). He is also scientific director of the Érudit journal platform, associate scientific director of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) and regular member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). His research focuses on science policy, scholarly publishing, and diversity and equity in science.

Chris McCutcheon
Chris McCutcheon is a knowledge translation expert who specializes in IKT and health services and policy research. He is currently the manager of the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. For close to a decade he designed and managed applied research programs for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and authored several of their dissemination products. From 2007 to 2010 Chris worked for the Knowledge Translation portfolio of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). While at CIHR, Chris managed IKT research programs, such as Partnerships for Health System Improvement and the Knowledge Synthesis grants. He also designed and piloted Evidence on Tap, CIHR’s first research program designed to produce rapid and relevant research for health-system decision makers. Chris holds a master’s degree in Social and Political Thought from York University. He is co-editor of Research Coproduction in Health Care, forthcoming from Wiley.

Dr. David Moher
Dr. David Moher is a senior scientist, clinical epidemiology program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where he directs the centre for journalology (publication science) (http://www.ohri.ca/journalology/ ). Dr. Moher is also a full Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, where he holds a University Research Chair. Dr. Moher is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Moher holds an MSc in epidemiology and PhD in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. The current focus of Dr. Moher’s research is open science.

Dr. Kirsten Patrick
Dr. Patrick obtained her medical degree and an anaesthesiology qualification in South Africa. She also holds a MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. She has worked as a medical editor for 15 years, first at The BMJ and then at CMAJ, where she was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief.

Dr. Justin Presseau
Dr. Presseau is a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. He is also Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association’s Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section. Dr. Presseau has been awarded early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society, a mid-career award from the Canadian Psychological Association, and is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science. Dr. Presseau’s research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science, drawing upon behaviour change theories and methods to design and evaluate theory-based strategies for promoting healthcare professional behaviour change to increase best practice and reduce non-evidenced healthcare.

Dr. Borsika Rabin
Dr. Rabin is an Associate Professor at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC) and the San Diego CFAR Implementation Science Hub, and an Implementation Science (IS) expert on a number of large NIH and VA Center grants and research projects including the VA San Diego Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health and the Quadruple Aim QUERI Program (Denver VA). Dr. Rabin’s research focuses on improving population health outcomes in real-world clinical and public health settings through increasing the equitable reach, adoption, implementation, and sustained use of evidence-based interventions. She does this through the development of models, methods, and measures for dissemination and implementation science and their application across diverse topic areas, populations, and settings in order to demonstrate their wide utility and broad generalizability. Dr. Rabin also has extensive expertise in developing and implementing novel and diverse capacity building approaches for dissemination and implementation research.

Dr. Dawn Stacey
Dawn Stacey RN PhD FAAN FCAHC FCAN 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 leads the Cochrane Review of Patient Decision Aids, co-chairs of the Steering Committee for the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration (IPDAS) and collaborates on the Cochrane Review of Interventions for Increasing the Use of Shared Decision Making. More specifically, 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 >290 peer-reviewed publications and given >160 invited national and international presentations. In 2020, she won the Nursing Research Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of Schools of nursing and the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research. For more information visit her research websites https://decisionaid.ohri.ca; https://ktcanada.ohri.ca/costars
Dr. Andrea C. Tricco
Dr. Andrea C. Tricco (PhD, MSc) is a Scientist and Director of the Knowledge Synthesis Team in the Knowledge Translation Program of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is also a Co-Director & Adjunct Associate Professor for the Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Centre of Excellence at Queen’s University. Dr. Tricco is a knowledge synthesis methodologist with >270 publications in this area, including papers in high-impact journals (e.g., British Medical Journal , Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet). She currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis. She has been commissioned by several agencies to conduct knowledge synthesis, such as the World Health Organization and Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. Her research has been covered by major media outlets, such as CTV News, Global News, and Radio Canada International. She has presented at >190 local, national, and international meetings and led >60 reports for decision-making agencies. She is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Systematic Reviews; and sits on the Editorial Board for BMC Medicine and JBI Evidence Synthesis. She developed and teaches an online systematic review course that >560 students have completed.
Dr. Holly Witteman
Holly Witteman, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health and a Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. Quebec City is unceded traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat. Dr. Witteman is a scientist in the VITAM Research Centre for Sustainable Health, the Research Centre of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada. With an interdisciplinary background in human factors engineering and social sciences, her research is about how we can achieve human-centredness in health-related domains, including a focus on how best to adapt digital health technology to people rather than expecting people to adapt to technology. She specializes in human-computer interaction in health education, risk communication and decision making, including design methods and system changes to support inclusive user-, human- and patient-centredness. Her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI, United States), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), Sentinelle Nord, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Registration for the KT Canada Virtual Scientific Meeting will open on Feb. 1, 2022.
You may register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kt-canada-virtual-scientific-meeting-2022-tickets-251323313797
The deadline to register is May 1st, 2022.
Fees
Regular: $225
Students & Fellows: $70
Patients and Caregivers: Please contact Meghan directly: Meghan.Storey@unityhealth.to
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Oral Presentations

Oral presentation time will be 15 minutes in total, which includes 5 minutes for Q & A. The presentation recording and PDF of slides will be posted in the online event space. Registered meeting participants will be able to view these leading up to the meeting, during the meeting dates, and after the meeting. The abstracts for each project will also be posted in the online meeting space and in the meeting program.
Technical info:

Please send a 10-minute video recording of your presentation, in MP4 format.
Please send a PDF of your slides.
We recommend using the Vimeo screen recorder to create your recording. It is free, it is quite user-friendly and the product has clear audio and visuals.
It is your choice if you would like to include the webcam view of you presenting. In general audiences seem to prefer when they can see the presenter but we are giving you the choice.
If you have a different preferred software for creating your mp4, that is fine! That said, we do not recommend using Zoom to make the recording, if possible. When a recording is created in Zoom and re-played in Zoom, the visual quality tends to be diminished.
Please make sure text is large and there is strong contrast between text and background. We recommend minimum font size of 24 pt.
Contrast checker here.
Please ensure you describe any graphs, images, etc.
Be aware that videos may be laggy.

Oral presentations format: we will play the 10-minute recorded presentation for the audience over Zoom. We would like the presenter to be online and available during that time. Once the 10-minute recording has concluded, there will be approximately 5 minutes of live Q&A. The audience may submit questions using the chat box or the Q&A function. There will be a moderator assigned to the session to read out the questions that come in. The presenter will be able to answer aloud (i.e. not restricted to the chat box).
Please send your materials (presentation recording & slides) by Monday, April 25th.
Please send to: KTCanadaFiles@gmail.com. We recommend using https://wetransfer.com/ to send large files.

Poster Presentations with live Q&A

The top-ranked 18 posters will get approximately 5 minutes with the plenary group during a live meeting session. During the 5 minutes, we will play their 3-minute recording and then they will get up to 2 minutes for Q & A. There will be a moderator.
The recording and PDF of the poster will be available to view in the online meeting space before, during and after the meeting. The abstracts for each project will also be posted in the online meeting space and in the meeting program.
Technical info:

Please send an up-to 3-minute video recording of your presentation, in MP4 format. In the past, presenters used 1-3 slides in their recording which help explain the information on the poster.
Please send a PDF of your poster. There are no rules about poster dimensions or orientation.
We recommend using the Vimeo screen recorder to create your recording. It is free, it is quite user-friendly and the product has clear audio and visuals. Screencastify also works well and is free for videos < 5 minutes long.
It is your choice if you would like to include the webcam view of you presenting. In general audiences seem to prefer when they can see the presenter but we are giving you the choice.
If you have a different preferred software for creating your mp4, that is fine! That said, we do not recommend using Zoom to make the recording, if possible. When a recording is created in Zoom and re-played in Zoom, the visual quality tends to be diminished.
Please make sure text is large and there is strong contrast between text and background. We recommend minimum font size of 24 pt.
Contrast checker here.
Please ensure you describe any graphs, images, etc.
Be aware that videos may be laggy.

Please send your materials (presentation recording & slides) byMonday, April 25th.
Please send to: KTCanadaFiles@gmail.com. We recommend using https://wetransfer.com/ to send large files.

Poster Presentations without live Q&A

For the posters that were not ranked in the top 18, the recording and PDF of the poster will be available to view in the online meeting space before, during and after the meeting and attendees will be encouraged to visit them and to contact presenters when interested in their work. The abstract will also be posted in the online meeting space and in the meeting program.
Technical info:

Please send an up-to 3-minute video recording of your presentation, in MP4 format. In the past, presenters used 1-3 slides in their recording which help explain the information on the poster.
Please send a PDF of your poster. There are no rules about poster dimensions or orientation.
We recommend using the Vimeo screen recorder to create your recording. It is free, it is quite user-friendly and the product has clear audio and visuals. Screencastify also works well and is free for videos < 5 minutes long.
It is your choice if you would like to include the webcam view of you presenting. In general audiences seem to prefer when they can see the presenter but we are giving you the choice.
If you have a different preferred software for creating your mp4, that is fine! That said, we do not recommend using Zoom to make the recording, if possible. When a recording is created in Zoom and re-played in Zoom, the visual quality tends to be diminished.
Please make sure text is large and there is strong contrast between text and background. We recommend minimum font size of 24 pt.
Contrast checker here.
Please ensure you describe any graphs, images, etc.
Be aware that videos may be laggy.

Please send your materials (presentation recording & slides) by Monday, April 25th.
Please send to: KTCanadaFiles@gmail.com. We recommend using https://wetransfer.com/ to send large files.
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KT Canada Summer Institute 2021
2021-06-24 - 2021-08-12
2021 KT Canada Summer Institute
InformationSpeakersApplyAgendaSponsorsWe are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada *virtual* Summer Institute, to be held online in Summer 2021. Please note that the virtual Summer Institute will take place during weekly sessions. These sessions are tentatively booked from June 24 – August 12, 2021.

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 change to network with colleagues including national KT experts.

The theme of the 2021 Institute is: ‘Intersectionality and KT’.

The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty who study issues relevant to KT and those who want to learn more about how to advance their research skills in this area.

Please note that we are not accepting applications for the 2021 Summer Institute.

Costs:
Trainee & fellow registration: $150
Junior Faculty registration: $200
Dr. Stefan Baral
Dr. Stefan Baral (MD, MPH, FRCPC, CCFP) is an Affiliate Scientist with the Knowledge Translation Program and a physician epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Stefan completed his certification in Community Medicine as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Family medicine with the Canadian Council of Family Physicians. Stefan co-directs the Implementation Science concentration of the DrPH at Johns Hopkins and has worked to increase coherence in the methods and metrics of HIV-related implementation research. Through his role as the Director of the Key Populations Program, Stefan has led HIV and mental health epidemiology and implementation research focused on characterizing the epidemiology of HIV and effective HIV prevention, treatment, and care approaches for gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender women, and female sex workers in the US and across Western and Central, and Southern Africa.

Dr. Carrie Bourassa
Dr. Carrie Bourassa, B.A., M.A., PhD: Scientific Director of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Professor, Community Health & Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. She also is Scientific Director, Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-IIPH). She is an adjunct in the Faculties of Education and Kinesiology & Health Studies at the University of Regina and is the Nominated Principal Investigator for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded Morning Star Lodge established in 2010, based in Regina, as well as for the recently CFI-funded Cultural Safety, Evaluation, Training and Research lab that will be built by next summer, hosted at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Carrie Bourassa spent over 15 years as a professor of Indigenous health studies in the Department of Indigenous Health, Education and Social Work at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) in Regina. Through her role as Scientific Director of IIPH, she leads the advancement of a national health research agenda to improve and promote the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples in Canada. Dr. Bourassa is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a public member of the Royal College Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is also a member of the International Research Advisory Board (IRAB) for the Health Research Council (New Zealand) and a member of the Health Quality Council Board of Saskatchewan. She was also appointed to the National Research Council of Canada Advisory Board (NRC) – Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre Advisory Board in May 2018. In 2012, Dr. Bourassa won the (Wee-e- chee-hee- way- shin-awn) Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation Inc. Métis Award in Health and Science. Dr. Bourassa is Métis and belongs to the Riel Métis Council of Regina Inc. (RMCR, Local #34).

Dr. Melissa Brouwers
Dr. Melissa Brouwers is the Director of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Dr. Brouwers was a Professor in the Departments of Oncology (primary) and Health Research Methodology, Evidence and Impact (affiliate) at McMaster University where she also served as the Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care, the guidelines program for Cancer Care Ontario; the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Implementation at Hamilton Health Sciences; and the Deputy Director of the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Brouwers holds a wealth of experience as a health services researcher with special interest in knowledge translation, implementation science and evaluation. Furthermore, she has a passion for graduate school education and international research collaborations. She obtained her PhD in Social Psychology from Western University.

Amanda Crupi
Amanda Crupi is the Manager of Knowledge Translation Strategies in the Science Policy Branch of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In addition to supporting the integration of knowledge translation within science policies and funded research, Amanda’s team is also responsible for the delivery of CIHR’s flagship knowledge translation program: the Best Brains Exchange. Prior to joining CIHR, she worked with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions as a Research and Policy Specialist where she managed two pan-Canadian knowledge networks focused on health services and policy research with a focus on occupational health and safety and pandemic preparedness. Amanda’s interest and excitement for the science and application of knowledge translation grew through her training at Dalhousie University where she obtained a Master’s of Applied Health Services Research.

Dr. Maoliosa Donald
Dr. Donald is the Senior Research Associate for the Roy and Vi Baay Chair in Kidney Research at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She completed her PhD in Health Sciences and has been a Physical Therapist since 1992. Dr. Donald is passionate about interventions that support person-centered care, and innovations that address the evidence-practice gap for patients with chronic disease. Her current work involves understanding the needs of individuals with chronic kidney disease and investigating optimal strategies for supporting them and their families. She is actively involved in many professional activities including holding memberships with the Mixed Methods International Research Association and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, as well as being a mentor in Graduate Science Education and Community Health Science Mentorship Programs.

Dr. Nicole Etherington
Nicole Etherington is a Senior Research Associate in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr. Etherington completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Western Ontario in 2016, with a focus on gender and health. Dr. Etherington’s current research applies a social lens to clinical practice issues, focusing primarily on the multi-level factors shaping teamwork, provider occupational well-being, and patient outcomes in acute care.

Olivia Magwood
Olivia Magwood is a Research Associate at the C.T. Lamont Primary Care Research Centre of the Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science (University of Ottawa ’16) and a Masters of Public Health (University of Guelph ’18). Her research interests include systematic review methods for disadvantaged populations, knowledge translation, evidence-based guidelines, and multi-stakeholder engagement. Her ongoing research projects include the use of technology to address youth mental health, implementation of evidence-based guidelines for homeless health, and approaches to screening and treating mental health conditions among refugees and migrants. Olivia presently volunteers as Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Public Health Association’s online blog and as a Communications-Chapter Development Liaison for Women in Global Health, which aims to highlight women’s leadership in global health and advocates for gender equality in global public health.

Karine Morin
In early 2019, Karine Morin joined NSERC as Director, Policy and Interagency Affairs where she is responsible for the implementation of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative. She recently returned to Ottawa after being an Executive Director at Alberta Innovates, overseeing a number of initiatives related to clinical research and ethics. Previously, she has served as Genome Canada’s Director of the “GE3LS” program, overseeing activities related to the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects of genomics research. Earlier, she was a Senior Ethics Policy Advisor at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She also conducted research on ethical, legal and social issues related to genomics at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Science, Society and Policy. Karine is a graduate of McGill University School of Law; she also completed a Masters in Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked in the US for more than 10 years. She has broad expertise in science policy, has published widely in bioethics and law, and has taught as an adjunct at several universities in the US and Canada.

Dr. Justin Presseau
Dr. Presseau is a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. He is also Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association’s Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section. Dr. Presseau has been awarded early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society, a mid-career award from the Canadian Psychological Association, and is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science and Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Dr. Presseau’s research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science, drawing upon behaviour change theories and methods to design and evaluate theory-based strategies for promoting healthcare professional behaviour change to increase best practice and reduce non-evidenced healthcare.

Dr. Monica Taljaard
Monica Taljaard is a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. Her main research interests are in the design, analysis and ethics of cluster randomized trials. As a methodologist with the Ottawa Methods Centre, she works with clinicians and researchers from a variety of backgrounds in the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials, standard clinical trials, and observational studies. She is Deputy Editor of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials.

Louise Zitzelsberger
In her career in KT, Louise has worked to create and implement the foundations for effective knowledge translation in organizations – from synthesis functions through to implementation and evaluation. Her current position is with Health Canada, on a KT Unit supporting staff and funding recipients to better integrate KT into funding proposals, work plans, and performance measurement. Her KT interests include understanding uptake of innovations at the organizational level in healthcare – in particular the processes around how knowledge is acquired, assimilated and applied.Please note that we did not accept new applicants for the 2021 Summer Institute. The 2020 event was postponed due to COVID-19 and those applicants were rolled over to this year.

Please watch for the applications to open, this Fall, for the 2022 Summer Institute!
The 2021 agenda will be coming soon.
Thank you to our generous sponsors:

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2021
2021-05-05 - 2021-05-07
Conference InformationGuest SpeakersRegistrationAgendaProgramThe 2021 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on May 5th-7th in a virtual format.

The theme is ‘Developing and evaluating KT interventions in a complex health system’.

Please note that we are not accepting new abstracts for the 2021 Scientific Meeting.

Registrants of the KT Canada virtual Scientific Meeting have the opportunity to request a one-on-one, 20-minute meeting (call or zoom) with a KT expert to discuss a specific question or topic related to their work and research.
Spaces are limited and we will do our best to set up a meeting for you with the expert of your choice (although we cannot guarantee it).
The online request form will be shared with registrants on Monday, April 19th at 12:00pm EST. It is beneficial to complete your request form sooner than later in order improve your chance of meeting with your top choice. The request form will be closed at 11:59pm EST on April 27th.

We will be posting additional information as it becomes available. For questions please contact Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to. Samantha Bellefeuille
In 2019, Samantha completed the Family Engagement in Research Certificate at McMaster University and ever since has been involved in research as a family partner. During the course, she completed infographics, presentations, research projects and more. Samantha was asked to join the SIBYAC group (Sibling Youth Advisory Council), where she attended conferences, spoke on panels, helped with research and learned a lot more about the research perspective while sharing her perspective as a Sibling/Family Partner from her experiences with her brother. Her younger brother, who is seventeen, has a rare form of epilepsy called CDKL5. Being a large part of his caregiving as well as attending multiple appointments gave her a lot of insight into a new side of pediatric care and especially the transition from pediatrics to adult healthcare. In 2020, Samantha joined the CHEO Partner in Research program where she helps out as a Family Leader providing feedback on a variety of research projects. In September 2020, she joined the CAMI Chatbot project from the University of Alberta where she had to research valuable resources in her area to be used within the Chatbot Project.

Dr. Nicole Etherington
Nicole Etherington is a Senior Research Associate in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr. Etherington completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Western Ontario in 2016, with a focus on gender and health. Dr. Etherington’s current research applies a social lens to clinical practice issues, focusing primarily on the multi-level factors shaping teamwork, provider occupational well-being, and patient outcomes in acute care.

Professor Nicolas Fernandez
Nicolas Fernandez is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montreal. Recipient of a transplanted kidney in 2008, Nicolas learned to manage his dialysis treatments, both peritoneal and hemodialysis, over a period of eight years. This life transforming experience, combined with his academic career in educational research and teaching, allowed Nicolas to develop unique insights into self-management of chronic illness. His doctoral thesis was completed in large part during treatment sessions in the dialysis unit of his local hospital. Nicolas contributes regularly to initiatives aimed at integrating patient perspective into training of health professionals, health research and Quality Improvement in clinical settings.

Jenny Leese
Jenny Leese is a PhD candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of British Columbia and a research trainee at Arthritis Research Canada. Her qualitative research in patient-oriented knowledge translation uses an ethics lens to develop e-health interventions with persons living with arthritis. Her work is supported by a Canadian Institutes for Research Doctoral Research Award.

Dr. France Légaré
First trained as an architect, France Légaré practices family medicine in Quebec since 1990 and is a full professor in the Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine Department at Université Laval, Quebec. She is an internationally recognized leader in Shared Decision-Making (SDM) and Knowledge Translation research. In 2005, she obtained her PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Annette O’Connor. The same year, she was awarded a grant as a clinical investigator by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) for her research program entitled “Health professionals in primary care: From knowledge brokers to decision brokers.” From June 2006 to May 2016, Dr. Légaré held the title of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation. As of June 1st 2016, she holds the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation. She was also the Canadian Cochrane Network Site representative at Université Laval (the CHU de Québec Research Centre) from 1999 to 2013 and, from 2013-15, its inaugural scientific director. She now acts as its scientific co-director. Dre Légaré is nominated PI/co-PI on 35 grants (˃$16 M) and Co-I on 53 (˃$49 M) for a total of ˃$65 M in the past 7 years. She has published more than 350 papers with 327 PubMed indexed; her H index is 67 and she has ˃22 500 citations (Google Scholar). In both 2017 and2018, she was listed as one of the top 1% most cited scientists (Clarivate Analytics https://hcr.clarivate.com/) indicating that her work has been repeatedly judged by her peers to be of notable significance and utility. Her research program aims at implementing shared decision making in clinical practices with a focus on home care.

Claire Ludwig
Claire Ludwig is a PhD candidate at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa. Her doctoral work is focused on patient engagement in research, specifically engaging frail and/or seriously ill patients as knowledge users. Her other research interests examine how patients and nurses negotiate the process of triage and self-management in cancer symptom management. Claire is a senior health care leader involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of large-scale programs aimed at improving patient and caregiver outcomes. Claire is also a patient with a cancer, currently in remission. She has served as a knowledge user on research projects as a healthcare administrator and as a patient advisor in the acute treatment and maintenance phases of her illness.

Dr. Carl May
Carl May is Professor of Medical Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Carl’s research focuses on developing a richer understanding of the development and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies and other complex healthcare interventions. His contributions to this field include ethnographic and other qualitative studies of professional practice and health technologies in use, along with leadership of the development of Normalization Process Theory and Burden of Treatment Theory. These models are widely used to help understand the implementation of new technologies and ways of working in healthcare, and their impacts on patients, caregivers and professionals.

Dr. Ruth Ndjaboue
Ruth Ndjaboue completed her Masters in Psychology (2006, Cameroon) and Public health (2007, Belgium) and a PhD in Epidemiology (2016, Université Laval). She is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Knowledge Translation (2017-present, Université Laval and University of Toronto), funded by Diabetes Action Canada and the International Society of Medical Decision Making. Her work has contributed to knowledge advancement of the psychosocial factors, chronic diseases, medical education, gender and social inequalities. Her interdisciplinary methodological expertise includes quantitative and qualitative methods and human-computer interaction. She focuses on developing innovative strategies to facilitate patient engagement and the use of information technology in healthcare research and education.

Dr. Michael Strong
Michael J. Strong became the President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in October, 2018. Prior to this, he served as the Dean of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University where he continues to hold an appointment as a Distinguished University Professor and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. He undertook his medical training at Queens University in Kingston (1976 – 1982), neurology training at Western University (1982 – 1987), and postgraduate training at the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies (director – D. Carleton Gadjusek, Nobel Laureate) at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland under the supervision of Ralph M. Garruto, PhD (1987 – 1990). He has published over 195 peer-reviewed articles and 29 chapters, edited 4 textbooks and given over 170 invited lectures nationally and internationally related to his research in ALS. Dr. Strong was awarded the Sheila Essay Award in 2005 and the Forbes Norris Award in 2008, and is the only Canadian to have received both international awards for ALS research. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology in 2008. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. His research has focused on understanding the cellular biology of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) including the role of altered RNA metabolism in the genesis of neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions and in the clinicopathological correlates of the frontotemporal spectrum disorder that can be associated with ALS. The latter has led to an appreciation for the role of alterations in tau protein metabolism in ALS.

Dr. Elisabeth Vesnaver
Elisabeth Vesnaver is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. She is a social scientist interested in social determinants of health and health-related behaviour. She completed a PhD in Family Relations and Applied Human Nutrition at the University of Guelph with a focus on gender, age, and food-related behaviours. Her current work focuses on using participatory research approaches to develop interventions to support plasma donation behaviour among men who have sex with men in a context of ongoing exclusionary policies. Registration is now open for the KT Canada Virtual Scientific Meeting.
You may register here.
The deadline to register is May 1st, 2021.

Fees
Regular: $210
Students & Fellows: $55
Patients and Caregivers: Please contact Meghan directly: Meghan.Storey@unityhealth.to To download the agenda for the 2021 KT Canada Scientific Meeting, click here. Please click here to view and download the program at a glance.

Summer Institute 2020
2020-06-17 - 2020-06-19
Given the evolving COVID-19 situation and in an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event. In place of the in-person meeting, we are currently exploring other ways we can connect by means of webinars, and potentially postponing to a later date. We will share more details on our plans in the coming weeks.
2020 KT Canada Summer Institute

InformationSpeakersApplyAgendaSponsorsGiven the evolving COVID-19 situation and in an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event. In place of the in-person meeting, we are currently exploring other ways we can connect by means of webinars, and potentially postponing to a later date. We will share more details on our plans in the coming weeks.
We are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute to be held in Ottawa from June 17-19, 2020. 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 change to network with colleagues including national KT experts.

The theme of the 2020 Institute is: “Intersectionality and KT”.

The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty 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 (clinical, health services, and population health).

Costs:
Trainee & fellow registration: $375
Junior Faculty registration: $925

Participants are responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation. We have secured a group rate for accommodations. Some meals will be covered by KT Canada during the event:
1st day: breaks
2nd day: breakfast, lunch, breaks
3rd day: breakfast, lunch, breaks

Dr. Carrie Bourassa
Dr. Carrie Bourassa, B.A., M.A., PhD: Scientific Director of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Professor, Community Health & Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. She also is Scientific Director, Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-IIPH). She is an adjunct in the Faculties of Education and Kinesiology & Health Studies at the University of Regina and is the Nominated Principal Investigator for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded Morning Star Lodge established in 2010, based in Regina, as well as for the recently CFI-funded Cultural Safety, Evaluation, Training and Research lab that will be built by next summer, hosted at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Carrie Bourassa spent over 15 years as a professor of Indigenous health studies in the Department of Indigenous Health, Education and Social Work at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) in Regina. Through her role as Scientific Director of IIPH, she leads the advancement of a national health research agenda to improve and promote the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples in Canada. Dr. Bourassa is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a public member of the Royal College Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is also a member of the International Research Advisory Board (IRAB) for the Health Research Council (New Zealand) and a member of the Health Quality Council Board of Saskatchewan. She was also appointed to the National Research Council of Canada Advisory Board (NRC) – Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre Advisory Board in May 2018. In 2012, Dr. Bourassa won the (Wee-e- chee-hee- way- shin-awn) Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation Inc. Métis Award in Health and Science. Dr. Bourassa is Métis and belongs to the Riel Métis Council of Regina Inc. (RMCR, Local #34).

Dr. Melissa Brouwers
Dr. Melissa Brouwers is the Director of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Dr. Brouwers was a Professor in the Departments of Oncology (primary) and Health Research Methodology, Evidence and Impact (affiliate) at McMaster University where she also served as the Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care, the guidelines program for Cancer Care Ontario; the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Implementation at Hamilton Health Sciences; and the Deputy Director of the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Brouwers holds a wealth of experience as a health services researcher with special interest in knowledge translation, implementation science and evaluation. Furthermore, she has a passion for graduate school education and international research collaborations. She obtained her PhD in Social Psychology from Western University.

Dr. Maoliosa Donald
Dr. Donald is the Senior Research Associate for the Roy and Vi Baay Chair in Kidney Research at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She completed her PhD in Health Sciences and has been a Physical Therapist since 1992. Dr. Donald is passionate about interventions that support person-centered care, and innovations that address the evidence-practice gap for patients with chronic disease. Her current work involves understanding the needs of individuals with chronic kidney disease and investigating optimal strategies for supporting them and their families. She is actively involved in many professional activities including holding memberships with the Mixed Methods International Research Association and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, as well as being a mentor in Graduate Science Education and Community Health Science Mentorship Programs.

Dr. Nicole Etherington
Nicole Etherington is a Senior Research Associate in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr. Etherington completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Western Ontario in 2016, with a focus on gender and health. Dr. Etherington’s current research applies a social lens to clinical practice issues, focusing primarily on the multi-level factors shaping teamwork, provider occupational well-being, and patient outcomes in acute care.

Karine Morin
In early 2019, Karine Morin joined NSERC as Director, Policy and Interagency Affairs where she is responsible for the implementation of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative. She recently returned to Ottawa after being an Executive Director at Alberta Innovates, overseeing a number of initiatives related to clinical research and ethics. Previously, she has served as Genome Canada’s Director of the “GE3LS” program, overseeing activities related to the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects of genomics research. Earlier, she was a Senior Ethics Policy Advisor at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She also conducted research on ethical, legal and social issues related to genomics at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Science, Society and Policy. Karine is a graduate of McGill University School of Law; she also completed a Masters in Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked in the US for more than 10 years. She has broad expertise in science policy, has published widely in bioethics and law, and has taught as an adjunct at several universities in the US and Canada.

Dr. Justin Presseau
Dr. Presseau is a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. He is also Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association’s Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section. Dr. Presseau has been awarded early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society, a mid-career award from the Canadian Psychological Association, and is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science and Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Dr. Presseau’s research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science, drawing upon behaviour change theories and methods to design and evaluate theory-based strategies for promoting healthcare professional behaviour change to increase best practice and reduce non-evidenced healthcare.

Louise Zitzelsberger
In her career in KT, Louise has worked to create and implement the foundations for effective knowledge translation in organizations – from synthesis functions through to implementation and evaluation. Her current position is with Health Canada, on a KT Unit supporting staff and funding recipients to better integrate KT into funding proposals, work plans, and performance measurement. Her KT interests include understanding uptake of innovations at the organizational level in healthcare – in particular the processes around how knowledge is acquired, assimilated and applied.

Dr. Monica Taljaard
Monica Taljaard is a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. Her main research interests are in the design, analysis and ethics of cluster randomized trials. As a methodologist with the Ottawa Methods Centre, she works with clinicians and researchers from a variety of backgrounds in the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials, standard clinical trials, and observational studies. She is Deputy Editor of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials.

Olivia Magwood
Olivia Magwood is a Research Associate at the C.T. Lamont Primary Care Research Centre of the Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science (University of Ottawa ’16) and a Masters of Public Health (University of Guelph ’18). Her research interests include systematic review methods for disadvantaged populations, knowledge translation, evidence-based guidelines, and multi-stakeholder engagement. Her ongoing research projects include the use of technology to address youth mental health, implementation of evidence-based guidelines for homeless health, and approaches to screening and treating mental health conditions among refugees and migrants. Olivia presently volunteers as Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Public Health Association’s online blog and as a Communications-Chapter Development Liaison for Women in Global Health, which aims to highlight women’s leadership in global health and advocates for gender equality in global public health.

Amanda Crupi
Amanda Crupi is the Manager of Knowledge Translation Strategies in the Science Policy Branch of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In addition to supporting the integration of knowledge translation within science policies and funded research, Amanda’s team is also responsible for the delivery of CIHR’s flagship knowledge translation program: the Best Brains Exchange. Prior to joining CIHR, she worked with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions as a Research and Policy Specialist where she managed two pan-Canadian knowledge networks focused on health services and policy research with a focus on occupational health and safety and pandemic preparedness. Amanda’s interest and excitement for the science and application of knowledge translation grew through her training at Dalhousie University where she obtained a Master’s of Applied Health Services Research.
The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 9th, 11:59PM EST. Apply now.

You may find a draft version of the agenda here.

Thank you to our sponsors

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2020
2020-05-06 - 2020-05-07
Given the evolving COVID-19 situation and in an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event. In place of the in-person meeting, we are currently exploring other ways we can connect by means of webinars, and potentially postponing to a later date. We will share more details on our plans in the coming weeks.

Conference InformationGuest SpeakersRegistration & Hotel BookingSubmit an abstractAgendaProgramSponsorsGiven the evolving COVID-19 situation and in an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this event. In place of the in-person meeting, we are currently exploring other ways we can connect by means of webinars, and potentially postponing to a later date. We will share more details on our plans in the coming weeks.
The 2020 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on May 7th & 8th in Ottawa, ON at the Delta Hotel, 101 Lyon Street.
The theme is ‘Developing KT interventions in a complex health system’.
We will be posting additional information as it becomes available. For questions please contact Meghan.Storey@UnityHealth.to.
Claire Ludwig
Claire Ludwig is a PhD candidate at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa. Her doctoral work is focused on patient engagement in research, specifically engaging frail and/or seriously ill patients as knowledge users. Her other research interests examine how patients and nurses negotiate the process of triage and self-management in cancer symptom management. Claire is a senior health care leader involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of large-scale programs aimed at improving patient and caregiver outcomes. Claire is also a patient with a cancer, currently in remission. She has served as a knowledge user on research projects as a healthcare administrator and as a patient advisor in the acute treatment and maintenance phases of her illness.

Dr. Carl May
Carl May is Professor of Medical Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Carl’s research focuses on developing a richer understanding of the development and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies and other complex healthcare interventions. His contributions to this field include ethnographic and other qualitative studies of professional practice and health technologies in use, along with leadership of the development of Normalization Process Theory and Burden of Treatment Theory. These models are widely used to help understand the implementation of new technologies and ways of working in healthcare, and their impacts on patients, caregivers and professionals.

Dr. France Légaré
First trained as an architect, France Légaré practices family medicine in Quebec since 1990 and is a full professor in the Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine Department at Université Laval, Quebec. She is an internationally recognized leader in Shared Decision-Making (SDM) and Knowledge Translation research. In 2005, she obtained her PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Annette O’Connor. The same year, she was awarded a grant as a clinical investigator by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) for her research program entitled “Health professionals in primary care: From knowledge brokers to decision brokers.” From June 2006 to May 2016, Dr. Légaré held the title of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation. As of June 1st 2016, she holds the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation. She was also the Canadian Cochrane Network Site representative at Université Laval (the CHU de Québec Research Centre) from 1999 to 2013 and, from 2013-15, its inaugural scientific director. She now acts as its scientific co-director. Dre Légaré is nominated PI/co-PI on 35 grants (˃$16 M) and Co-I on 53 (˃$49 M) for a total of ˃$65 M in the past 7 years. She has published more than 350 papers with 327 PubMed indexed; her H index is 67 and she has ˃22 500 citations (Google Scholar). In both 2017 and2018, she was listed as one of the top 1% most cited scientists (Clarivate Analytics https://hcr.clarivate.com/ ) indicating that her work has been repeatedly judged by her peers to be of notable significance and utility. Her research program aims at implementing shared decision making in clinical practices with a focus on home care.

Dr. Justin Presseau
Dr. Presseau is a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. He is also Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association’s Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section. Dr. Presseau has been awarded early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society, a mid-career award from the Canadian Psychological Association, and is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science and Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Dr. Presseau’s research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science, drawing upon behaviour change theories and methods to design and evaluate theory-based strategies for promoting healthcare professional behaviour change to increase best practice and reduce non-evidenced healthcare.

Jenny Leese
Jenny Leese is a PhD candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of British Columbia and a research trainee at Arthritis Research Canada. Her qualitative research in patient-oriented knowledge translation uses an ethics lens to develop e-health interventions with persons living with arthritis. Her work is supported by a Canadian Institutes for Research Doctoral Research Award.

Dr. Michael Strong
Dr. Michael J. Strong became the President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in October, 2018. Prior to this, he served as the Dean of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University where he continues to hold an appointment as a Distinguished University Professor and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. He undertook his medical training at Queens University in Kingston (1976 – 1982), neurology training at Western University (1982 – 1987), and postgraduate training at the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies (director – D. Carleton Gadjusek, Nobel Laureate) at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland under the supervision of Ralph M. Garruto, PhD (1987 – 1990).
He has published over 195 peer-reviewed articles and 29 chapters, edited 4 textbooks and given over 170 invited lectures nationally and internationally related to his research in ALS. Dr. Strong was awarded the Sheila Essay Award in 2005 and the Forbes Norris Award in 2008, and is the only Canadian to have received both international awards for ALS research. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology in 2008. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
His research has focused on understanding the cellular biology of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) including the role of altered RNA metabolism in the genesis of neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions and in the clinicopathological correlates of the frontotemporal spectrum disorder that can be associated with ALS. The latter has led to an appreciation for the role of alterations in tau protein metabolism in ALS.

Professor Nicolas Fernandez
Nicolas Fernandez is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montreal. Recipient of a transplanted kidney in 2008, Nicolas learned to manage his dialysis treatments, both peritoneal and hemodialysis, over a period of eight years. This life transforming experience, combined with his academic career in educational research and teaching, allowed Nicolas to develop unique insights into self-management of chronic illness. His doctoral thesis was completed in large part during treatment sessions in the dialysis unit of his local hospital. Nicolas contributes regularly to initiatives aimed at integrating patient perspective into training of health professionals, health research and Quality Improvement in clinical settings.

Dr. Nicole Etherington
Nicole Etherington is a Senior Research Associate in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr. Etherington completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Western Ontario in 2016, with a focus on gender and health. Dr. Etherington’s current research applies a social lens to clinical practice issues, focusing primarily on the multi-level factors shaping teamwork, provider occupational well-being, and patient outcomes in acute care.

Dr. Ruth Ndjaboue
Ruth Ndjaboue completed her Masters in Psychology (2006, Cameroon) and Public health (2007, Belgium) and a PhD in Epidemiology (2016, Université Laval). She is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Knowledge Translation (2017-present, Université Laval and University of Toronto), funded by Diabetes Action Canada and the International Society of Medical Decision Making. Her work has contributed to knowledge advancement of the psychosocial factors, chronic diseases, medical education, gender and social inequalities. Her interdisciplinary methodological expertise includes quantitative and qualitative methods and human-computer interaction. She focuses on developing innovative strategies to facilitate patient engagement and the use of information technology in healthcare research and education.
Registration is now open for the 2020 KT Canada Scientific Meeting!

Fees
Regular: $675
Students & Fellows: $365
Patients and Caregivers: Please contact Meghan directly: Meghan.Storey@unityhealth.to
The deadline to register is April 30th, 2020.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kt-canada-scientific-meeting-2020-tickets-87812801453

Venue/ Hotel Information
You may book a room at the Delta Hotel by using this link.
Please note that you must use the above link in order to get the conference room rate.
You must book your room before 4:00pm EST, Sunday, April 5th in order to receive the conference room rate.
The KT Canada Scientific Meeting is being held at the Delta Hotel at 101 Lyon St. in Ottawa on the 7-8th of May 2020.
Hotel website: Delta Hotels Ottawa City Centre
Hotel Address: 101 Lyon Street North, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 5T9
Phone: +1 613-237-3600

“Enjoy a luxurious stay within walking distance of many city centre attractions at Delta Hotels Ottawa City Centre. Ideally located in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, our modern, stylish hotel offers sleek, spacious hotel rooms and suites featuring pillow-top bedding, floor-to-ceiling windows and scenic city views. Enjoy complimentary Wi-Fi throughout our hotel. Dine at our Italian inspired bar and kitchen, Prova, our signature hotel restaurant. Maintain your fitness routine in our state-of-the-art gym, relax on our rooftop terrace or take a dip in our indoor, oversized saltwater pool. Those who are in downtown Ottawa, Ontario to host a meeting or social occasion will appreciate our complementary business center and flexible event venues that can accommodate up to 1,100 guests. Explore Ottawa city centre with ease – Shaw Convention Centre, the ByWard Market District, Rideau Canal and Parliament Hill are moments away. We can’t wait for you to visit us at our hotel in downtown Ottawa, Ontario.”

Accessibility
For more information about the physical features of our accessible rooms, common areas, or special services relating to a specific disability, please call +1 613-237-3600.

Accessible Areas with Accessible Routes from Public Entrance
Business Center
Fitness Center
Meeting spaces and ballrooms
Public entrance alternative
Registration Desk Pathway
Registration desk
Restaurant(s)/Lounge(s)

Accessible Hotel Features
Accessible Self-parking
Self-parking facility, van-accessible spaces
Self-parking, accessible spaces
Service animals are welcome
Valet parking for vehicles outfitted for drivers in wheelchairs
Elevators

Guest Room Accessibility
Accessible guest rooms with 32” wide doorways
Accessible route from public entrance to accessible guest rooms
Bathroom grab bars
Bathtub grab bars
Bathtub seat
Deadbolt locks, lowered
Doors with lever handles
Electrical outlets, lowered
Hearing accessible rooms and/or kits
Roll-in shower
Shower wand, adjustable
TTY/TTD available
TV with close-captioning
Toilet seat at wheelchair height
Transfer shower
Vanities, accessible
Viewports, lowered

Parking
On-site parking, fee: 6 CAD hourly, 25 CAD daily
Valet parking, fee: 35 CAD daily
Onsite Garage clearance is 6 feet. Contact the hotel for larger vehicle options. Abstract submission is now closed. To download the agenda for the 2020 KT Canada Scientific Meeting, click here. Coming soon… Coming soon…

Summer Institute 2019
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-28
2019 KT Canada Summer Institute

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We are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute to be held in Toronto from June 26 – 28, 2019. 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.

The theme of the 2019 Institute is: “Evaluations in KT”.

The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty 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 (clinical, health services, and population health).

Costs:
Trainee registration: $350
Junior Faculty registration: $900

Participants are responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation. We have secured a group rate at a nearby hotel. Some meals will be covered by KT Canada during the event:

1st day: breaks
2nd day: all meals (breakfast, lunch, group dinner, breaks)
3rd day: breakfast, lunch and all breaks

Guest Speakers

Dr. Andrea Tricco
Andrea Tricco completed a MSc in Epidemiology (2002-2004) and a PhD in Population Health (2005-2009). She is a Scientist in the Knowledge Translation Program of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital (appointed Sept 2011) and directs the Knowledge Synthesis Team. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (appointed June 2014). Her research interests are related to responding to decision-makers (including policy-makers, healthcare providers, and patients) through knowledge synthesis. Her research also focuses on advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and she is leading research projects related to rapid reviews, network meta-analysis, and scoping reviews.
Dr. Tricco has published over 135 peer-reviewed articles. She currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis and the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science Early Researcher Award. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, BMC Medical Research Methodology, and Systematic Reviews; and sits on the editorial board for the BMC Medicine. She developed an online systematic review course that >335 students have completed, which is offered through the University of Toronto.
A sample of Dr. Tricco’s publications can be found here.

Dr. Anne Sales
Dr. Sales is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Educational Programs and Health System Innovation in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School. She is also a Research Scientist at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Her training is in sociology, health economics, econometrics, and general health services research. Her current work involves theory-based design of implementation interventions, including understanding how feedback reports affect provider behavior and through behavior change have an impact on patient outcomes, and the role of social networks in uptake of evidence based practices and implementation interventions. She has completed over 30 funded research projects, including a Partnered Evaluation Initiative funded by the VA Office of Nursing Services, evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of VA national nursing initiatives, and currently leads a VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Program focused on implementing goals of care conversations in VA long term care settings. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Science, together with Michel Wensing of Heidelberg University in Germany. A full bibliography is available at https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.lib.umich.edu/sites/myncbi/1dmFRRPeGbU55/bibliography/47758073/public/?sort=date&direction=descending.

Dr. David Johnson
Dr. David Johnson is Senior Medical Director for the Alberta Health Services Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network; a pediatric emergency physician and medical toxicologist; and a Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology in the Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary. His research interests are primarily focused on the management of common childhood respiratory emergencies, and ensuring primary health care professionals utilize ‘best evidence’ in managing these diseases.

Dr. Janet Curran
Dr. Janet Curran is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. She is Co-Director of the Aligning Health Needs and Evidence for Transformative Change: Joanna Briggs Centre at the School of Nursing and she also holds a scientific appointment in pediatrics and emergency medicine at the IWK Health Centre. Dr. Curran’s program of research is focused on developing and evaluating interventions to improve transitions in care for children and their families/caregivers. She is the 2015 recipient of the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Terry Klassen Young Investigator Award and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Health Professions Early Career Research Excellence Award. Dr. Curran’s program of research is supported by a CIHR New Investigator Award in Knowledge Translation and her research is directly informed by the inclusion of multiple stakeholders (patients, caregivers, clinicians, and administrators). Dr. Curran currently leads a CIHR-NSHRF funded multi-centred national study exploring best practice strategies for discharge communication in paediatric emergency practice settings.

Ms. Jess Rogers
Over the course of Jess’ career, she has built strong executive experience in leading effective teams, strategic planning and implementing operational policies and processes for organizations with a core mandate to design and execute knowledge translation activities. Prior to her current role as Manager of Knowledge Mobilization Strategy at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Jess lead the efforts at the Centre for Effective Practice for 10 years to develop appropriate methodologies for developing and adapting evidence-based clinical guidance for health care professionals. As the Director at CEP, she was also responsible for supporting diverse clients to tailor implementation approaches for various small and large scale projects ranging from Ontario’s provincial education approach to low back pain care to developing a Pan-Canadian Strategy for the development and dissemination of clinical guidance during a Pandemic. She also lead the first Academic Detailing/Educational Outreach programs funded by the Ontario Government in both primary care and long term care.

Dr. Linda Li
Dr. Linda Li is Professor and Harold Robinson / Arthritis Society Chair at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, and Senior Scientist at Arthritis Research Canada. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient-oriented Knowledge Translation, and is currently the Lead of the Knowledge Translation Methods Cluster of the BC SUPPORT Unit. Dr. Li’s research focuses on the help-seeking experience of people with arthritis. She evaluates the use of e-health tools in patient care and self-management. Recently, her work has expanded to studying the benefits of engaging patients and the public in health research.

Dr. Michelle Kho
Dr. Michelle Kho is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
As a clinician-scientist, she also cares for patients in the St. Joseph’s Healthcare ICU in Hamilton. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Rehabilitation and Knowledge Translation.
Dr. Kho is leading a clinical research program of very early in-bed cycling in mechanically ventilated patients to improve patient outcomes. Her research interests include novel early rehabilitation strategies to reduce weakness in ICU patients, knowledge translation, research methodology (systematic reviews, practice guidelines), and health services and outcomes research.

Dr. Monika Kastner
Monika Kastner is the Research Chair in KT and Implementation at North York General Hospital, affiliate Scientist with the KT Program at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Monika’s research interests and goals are to make a positive impact on the health of older adults with the use of innovative eHealth technologies, and to advance the science and practice of KT and health services research. Currently, Monika is creating an eHealth application (KeepWell) that responds to the needs of older adults with multimorbidity and empowers them to make lifestyle changes to keep well.

Dr. Sharon Straus
Sharon E. Straus is a geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist who trained at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. She is the Director of the Knowledge Translation Program and Interim Physician-in-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto; Vice Chair, and Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Quality of Care and has authored more than 400 publications and 3 textbooks in evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation and mentorship. She is in the top 1% of highly cited clinical researchers as per Web of Science. She holds more than $57 million in peer reviewed research grants as a principal investigator. She has received national awards for mentorship, research and education.

Louise Zitzelsberger
In her career in KT, Louise has worked to create and implement the foundations for effective knowledge translation in organizations – from synthesis functions through to implementation and evaluation. Her current position is with Health Canada, on a KT Unit supporting staff and funding recipients to better integrate KT into funding proposals, work plans, and performance measurement. Her KT interests include understanding uptake of innovations at the organizational level in healthcare – in particular the processes around how knowledge is acquired, assimilated and applied.
Applications for 2019 are now open. The application deadline has been extended to Friday, March 15th, 10am EST.
Apply NowYou may view the draft agenda here.

KT Canada Scientific Meeting 2019
2019-05-30 - 2019-05-31 | Winnipeg, Manitoba
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The 2019 KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting is being held on May 30th and 31st in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Delta Hotel.
The theme is ‘Advancing the science of integrated knowledge translation’
We will be posting additional information as it becomes available. For questions please contact Meghan Storey: storeym@smh.ca.

Additional Information
Workshop Materials: Activity Booklet and Resource Booklet
Floor Plan: Delta Winnipeg
Opening Ceremony

Keynotes:
Dr. Anita Kothari, Western University
Anita Kothari is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on understanding how to best support the use of research and knowledge in healthcare decision-making; within this domain, she concentrates on integrated knowledge translation (i.e., research co-production) particularly in public health systems and services. Her academic background involved training in health research methodology, population health, and health policy and services. She is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dr. Ian Graham, University of Ottawa
Ian Graham, PhD, FCAHS, FNYAM, FRSC is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Practice-Changing Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. From 2006 to 2012 he was seconded to the position of Vice President of Knowledge Translation at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. His research program focuses on understanding how engaging patients and other stakeholders in the research process (known as integrated knowledge translation) works and the impact it produces. He is co-originator of the Ottawa Model of Research Use; the Practice Guideline Evaluation and Adaptation Cycle; the Knowledge to Action framework; and a founding member of the international ADAPTE collaboration.

Panelists:
Dr. Ahmed Abou-Setta, University of Manitoba
Dr. Abou-Setta is Director of Knowledge Synthesis, George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (University of Manitoba) and Manitoba SPOR SUPPORT Unit. He leads and supports patient-oriented research including clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and overviews of reviews. His work has been featured in JAMA, BMJ, CMAJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, Cochrane and WHO publications. In addition, Dr. Abou-Setta is leading innovative research into methods for improving and streamlining the systematic review process. Furthermore, Dr. Abou-Setta is regularly involved in training of students and clinical professionals through an array of consultations, teaching, and collaborative research on knowledge synthesis projects.

Carolyn Shimmin, University of Manitoba
Carolyn Shimmin is the Patient and Public Engagement Lead at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI), Manitoba’s SPOR SUPPORT Unit. In this role, she is responsible for all patient/public engagement in health research programs and services offered at the Centre, including the PE Lunchtime Learning Series, the PE Champions Program, the Funding Award to Support Patient/Public Engagement in Health Research, and the CHI Patient Engagement Collaborative Partnership. With a bachelor’s degree combined honours in journalism and political science and a masters degree in gender studies, Carolyn is a big proponent of using a social justice and health equity lens in patient/public engagement and writes and speaks about the importance of incorporating a trauma-informed intersectional analysis in order to build truly inclusive and safe spaces within patient and public engagement in health research.

Dr. Charmayne Dubé, University of Manitoba
Dr. Charmayne Dubé has been employed in the field of intellectual disabilities for 30 years and continues to be passionate about improving quality of services and ultimately, quality of life for individuals who are supported in the community. She is the Senior Director of Resource Services within New Directions, a non-profit organization, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Sciences in Manitoba.
Dr. Dubé completed an undergraduate degree in Medical Rehabilitation (Occupational Therapy), a Master of Science (Family Social Sciences) degree, and her Doctoral program in Applied Health Sciences through the University of Manitoba.

Dr. David Johnson, University of Calgary
Dr. David Johnson is: Senior Medical Director for the Alberta Health Services Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network; a pediatric emergency physician and medical toxicologist; and a Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology in the Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary. His research interests are primarily focused on the management of common childhood respiratory emergencies, and ensuring primary health care professionals utilize ‘best evidence’ in managing these diseases.

Dr. Joyce Dogba, Laval University
Dr. Joyce Dogba is trained as a physician in Togo. She holds a Master degree in health economics and a PhD in Public Health. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at Laval University. Her research agenda comprises evaluation of collaborative practices with patients-users in research and the education of health professionals. She is also interested in advancing stakeholders engagement science regarding how to meaningfully involve the underserved including immigrants in patient-oriented research. Joyce Dogba is a co-lead on patient engagement within the SRAP/SPOR Network in Diabetes and Related Complications.

Dr. Michelle Driedger, University of Manitoba
S. Michelle Driedger is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and a proud member of the Manitoba Metis nation. Her broad areas of research interests include risk communication in primary care and public health, risk perception, and knowledge translation under conditions of uncertainty. Drawing primarily on qualitative and participatory methods, she is particularly interested in how risk communicators can meaningfully engage public audiences to enable informed decisions about health recommendations, including protective behaviours, that can be adopted for themselves and their family. Her research explores these aspects with both general population and Metis contexts. She has some current funded studies looking at vaccine hesitancy, health priorities of Indigenous youth, and patient-provider communication around non-recommended tests and procedures

Dr. Julianne Sanguins
Julianne Sanguins is the Research Program Manager in the Health & Wellness Department at the Manitoba Metis Federation, an Assistant Professor in the University of Manitoba’s Department of Community Health Sciences, and an Adjunct Scientist with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Julianne is an RN and holds a PhD in Nursing. The Research Program Manager with the Manitoba Metis Federation-Health & Wellness Department (MMF-HWD) since 2006, she has been involved in numerous studies in which the aim has been to develop knowledge of the health of Metis in Manitoba. As part of a dedicated team of researchers, they conducted the first population-based provincial study that compared the health of Metis to all others Manitobans. The two-year study (known as the Metis Atlas) was funded by Manitoba Health and was published in June 2010. As a result of that study provincial chronic disease surveillance program of the Metis population was launched. The Metis Atlas has also identified new areas of research and several qualitative and quantitative studies have been completed. Moreover, the study provided quantitative evidence for health policy planning and program adaptation. She continues to work with the Manitoba Metis Federation Health & Wellness Department managing all aspects of the academic needs of studies, including directly supervising research staff.

Thomas Beaudry, Collaborator – Patient/Caregiver in Patient Engagement & Knowledge Translation; George & Fay Yee, Centre for Healthcare Innovation
Residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a proud Indigenous man; a proud father of three, two young men and a young woman, and a mishoom of 2 boys. A graduate of the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), with a certificate in Environmental Protection, with the focus on environmental-related issues concerning Indigenous peoples and communities.
Health of the land is inseparable from the health of the people and vice versa. A healthy environment, such as water, ensures healthy people.
A goal of his is the collaboration between environmental and healthcare fields, by being a “bridge,” a facilitator in these fields and with Indigenous people in order to assist with creating a way for healthy people and communities.

Margo Powell, Abilities Manitoba
In March 2015, Margo Powell assumed the role of Executive Director at Abilities Manitoba.
Margo began working in the disability sector in the early 1990’s. She has worked for small and large community organizations both in Winnipeg and rurally. Her experience also includes running a provincial organization.
Margo is a proud alumni of the Disability and Community Support Program at RRC and has her degree in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies from the University of Calgary. Her experience also includes teaching the Foundations Course for RRC and sitting on the original Staffing Stabilization Committee. She was also the community representative on the MDC transition team 10 years ago and has taught Vulnerable Person’s Act training. Margo is passionate about inclusion, equality, community living and quality of life.
Registration is now open for the 2019 KT Canada Scientific Meeting!

Fees
Regular: $650
Students & Fellows: $350
Patients and Caregivers: Please contact Meghan directly: StoreyM@smh.ca
The deadline to register is May 27th.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kt-canada-scientific-meeting-2019-tickets-54718234713

Venue/ Hotel Information
You may book a room at the Delta Hotel by Marriott by using this link.

Please note that you must use the above link in order to get the conference room rate.

You must book your room before April 30th in order to receive the conference room rate. If you receive a message of “No availability” – please call the toll-free number, 1-844-294-7309, to speak with a reservation agent, who should be able to help accommodate.

The KT Canada Scientific Meeting is being held at the Delta Hotel by Marriott on the 30-31 of May 2019.

Hotel website: Delta Hotel by Marriott
Hotel Address: 350 St Mary Avenue, Winnipeg R3C 3J2 Canada
Phone: 1 204-942-0551

‘Whether traveling for leisure or business, Delta Hotels Winnipeg ensures your desires are accommodated for. With a location in the heart of downtown and a connection to the city’s skybridge, out hotel makes it easy to access RBC Convention Centre and BellMTS Place. Spend time shopping at Polo Park, or feed your love of the arts at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. End your day of adventures in our rooms and suites boasting pillowtop beds. The balance of work and play is perfected with our free high-speed Wi-Fi, wall-mounted TVs and large ergonomic desks. In the morning, be sure to visit Urban Bean, our coffeehouse featuring Starbucks® drinks. Savour a healthy, hearty meal and cocktail at Blaze Restaurant & Lounge. In your free time, work out at our Odyssey Fitness Center with cardio equipment, enjoy a scenic swim in our rooftop pool or make a splash any time of the year at our indoor pool. Visit Manitoba’s capital city for work or fun and let Delta Hotels Winnipeg exceed your expectations every season.’

Other hotels in the area: The Alt Hotel and the Radisson are alternate options which are walking distance to the Delta.
Alt hotel: https://www.althotels.com/en/winnipeg/
Radisson: https://www.radisson.com/winnipeg-hotel-mb-r3c0b8/mbwinnip?s_cid=os.amer-ca-rad-MBWINNIP-gmb
The Fairmont and Fort Garry are also not too far away:
Fairmont: https://www.fairmont.com/winnipeg/
Fort Garry: https://www.fortgarryhotel.com/

Accessibility
For more information, please call the general manager of the hotel: +1 204-942-0551

Accessible guest rooms have 32 inch wide opening
Adjustable height hand-held shower wand
Bathroom vanity in guest rooms for lower heights
Bathtub grab bars
Bathtub seat
Closed-caption TV
Flashing door knocker available
Grab bars in bathroom
Hotel has on site accessible self-parking
Lowered electrical outlets
*No transfer showers available
Route to accessible guest rooms is accessible
Self-operating lifts or sloped entry
Service animals allowed for persons with disabilities
TTY/TTD compatible
Telephone for hearing impaired
Toilet seat in guest rooms
Roll-in shower

Room Cancellation Policy
Guests have 48 hours prior to arrival date to cancel or make any changes to their reservation without penalty to their credit card. Should they not cancel and not arrive, then 1st nights room and taxes will be billed to their credit card number as a no show charge.

Catering
Breakfast and lunch as well as snacks and refreshments during breaks are provided for all attendees on 30-31 May.

Parking
Off-site parking, fee: 20 CAD daily
On-site parking, fee: 18 CAD daily
Valet parking, fee: 24 CAD daily
Onsite garage clearance 1.8 meters-contact hotel for large vehicle options/Offsite parking at RBC Convention Centre.
Abstract submission is now closed. The agenda for the Scientific Meeting can be found here.
The full program can be found here.

Summer Institute 2018
2018-06-27 - 2018-06-29
2018 KT Canada Summer Institute
InformationSpeakersApplyAgendaSponsorsWe are pleased to announce the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Summer Institute to be held in Toronto from June 27 – 29, 2018. 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.

The theme of the 2018 Institute is: “KT Interventions”.

The Summer Institute is aimed at graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty 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 (clinical, health services, and population health).
Guest Speakers
Dr. Melissa Brouwers
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. Heather Colquhoun
Heather Colquhoun, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.) is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Department at the University of Toronto. She has over 29 years of experience as an Occupational Therapist and researcher. Her research focuses on the science of knowledge translation (KT). In particular, the identification, prioritization and closing of evidence-to-practice gaps in healthcare.

Dr. Janet Curran
Dr. Janet Curran is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. She is Co-Director of the Aligning Health Needs and Evidence for Transformative Change: Joanna Briggs Centre at the School of Nursing and she also holds a scientific appointment in pediatrics and emergency medicine at the IWK Health Centre. Dr. Curran’s program of research is focused on developing and evaluating interventions to improve transitions in care for children and their families/caregivers. She is the 2015 recipient of the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Terry Klassen Young Investigator Award and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Health Professions Early Career Research Excellence Award. Dr. Curran’s program of research is supported by a CIHR New Investigator Award in Knowledge Translation and her research is directly informed by the inclusion of multiple stakeholders (patients, caregivers, clinicians, and administrators). Dr. Curran currently leads a CIHR-NSHRF funded multi-centred national study exploring best practice strategies for discharge communication in paediatric emergency practice settings.

Dr. Sophie Desroches
Dr Sophie Desroches, PhD, RD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nutrition of Laval University, in Quebec City, Canada. She is also a research scientist at the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods of Laval University. Her research program aims to identify, develop and evaluate knowledge translation strategies that will optimize adherence to dietary advice. She is the lead author of the Cochrane systematic review “Interventions for enhancing adherence to dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases”. Her more recently funded research projects have explored the use of social media, and more specifically blogs, as knowledge translation strategies to enhance adherence to evidence-based dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases.

Dr. David Johnson
Dr. David Johnson is: Senior Medical Director for the Alberta Health Services Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network; a pediatric emergency physician and medical toxicologist; and a Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology in the Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary. His research interests are primarily focused on the management of common childhood respiratory emergencies, and ensuring primary health care professionals utilize ‘best evidence’ in managing these diseases.

Dr. Krystina Lewis
Krystina B. Lewis is a cardiovascular nurse and PhD candidate in Nursing program at the University of Ottawa. She will commence a position as Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa in July 2018. Her doctoral studies focused on the design, development, and preliminary evaluation of a decision support intervention for patients facing implantable cardioverter-defibrillator replacement. Using an integrated knowledge translation approach, patients, family members, and healthcare professionals as knowledge users were engaged as research partners in the research process, including development of the decision support intervention.

Dr. Julia Moore
Dr. Julia E. Moore leads the Team for Implementation, Evaluation and Sustainability (TIES) at the Knowledge Translation (KT) Program in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital. Dr. Moore has coordinated or managed over 65 grants and contracts about applying KT in health care, education, and mental health. She manages a team of 20 research coordinators and research assistants. She holds a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in Human Development, where she focused on the implementation of preventive interventions.

Dr. Byron Powell
Byron J. Powell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and scholarship focuses on 1) identifying contextual determinants of implementing evidence-based practices in routine care; 2) identifying, selecting, and tailoring implementation strategies to address determinants of effective implementation; and 3) advancing research methodology in implementation science.

Dr. Justin Presseau
Dr. Presseau is a Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Presseau has been awarded early career awards from the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the European Health Psychology Society and is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science and Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Dr. Presseau’s research program operates at the intersection between health psychology and implementation science, drawing upon behaviour change theories and methods to design and evaluate theory-based strategies for promoting healthcare professional behaviour change to increase best practice and reduce non-evidenced healthcare.

Ms. Andrea Proctor
Prior to joining the Vector Institute as the Director of Health Care Engagement in July 2017, Andrea was a manager in the Research, Analysis and Evaluation Branch in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care where she worked to ensure that the development of provincial programs and policies was informed by evidence. She played a key role in the development of the Ontario Health Innovation Council’s final report, and helped to establish the office of the Chief Health Innovation Strategist. Andrea holds a PhD in Psychology from Northwestern University, with a concentration in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics.

Dr. Laura Weeks
Dr. Laura Weeks is a methodologist and evidence synthesis expert with over ten years’ experience acquired through her work with academia, CADTH, AHRQ and the Cochrane Collaboration. She currently manages a team of health technology assessment methodologists at CADTH, Canada’s pan-Canadian Health Technology Assessment agency. With her team she develops, supports and promotes the use of high-quality scientific methods across all health technology assessments, in addition to strategies to enhance uptake of assessment results. Her specific methodological interests include clinical systematic reviews, health technology assessments, rapid reviews, qualitative research, and patient engagement. Laura obtained her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the University of Calgary in 2009.

Mr. Mike Campo
Dr. Monika Kastner
Dr. Janet Squires
Dr. Linda Li

Applications for 2018 are now closed. Many thanks to all who applied!
The draft agenda is available here.
A huge thank you to our sponsors who are helping make this event possible.
Gold Level

Silver Level

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 | 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
