Program-at-a-Glance

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Workshops

• Plain Language – Short, Sweet and Superb!
  No matter what our profession, we all need to be good communicators. In this interactive workshop, Wordsmith Associates helps you learn to craft plain language summaries and other documents that are engaging and provide a clear message to your intended audience.
• Ethical Considerations in KT
  Do you know what you should be doing to ensure that your KT research is ethical? Join Linda Barrett-Smith, Director of Ethics and Innovation Platforms at Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions to explore ethical principles such as utility and justice and how these principles should be applied to ethical considerations in KT, including safety of outcomes, equity of benefits and harms, and ethical stewardship and partnerships.
• Create, Evaluate, Sustain: Communities of Practice Innovation
  What is a community of practice? How are they formed and what keeps them going? How do you evaluate their effectiveness? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this workshop led by Trish Paton and Chris Carruthers, Knowledge Management Consultants with Alberta Health Services and Rena Sorensen, Community Liaison with The Lung Association of Alberta and NWT.
  

RTNA 10 Year Celebration and Dinner Speaker

What if Your Idea Wasn't Stupid?
Doug Walker, Trigger Communications

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Room 1

1. Strategic Knowledge Network: Innovative Implementation of Knowledge Translation and Exchange in a Canadian Health Authority
   Leslie Bryant MacLean
   
2. Partnership Principles that Enable Effective Knowledge Translation
   Maria Mayan
   
3. A funder’s perspective: From engagement to action on increasing the use of health research evidence
   Megan Schellenberg
   
4. Sustaining organizational capacities of knowledge utilization: A complete toolbox for the health and social services organizations
   Francois Chagnon

Room 2

1. Development and Implementation of a Health Care Navigation Booklet for Disadvantaged Urban Patients Who Suffer From Addictions
   Ginetta Salvalaggio
   
2. Mobilizing Elder Knowledge to Maskwacis Youth
   Fay Fletcher
   
3. Learning from Communities of Practice in a BC Health System: The emerging promise for building knowledge translation platforms
   Donna Mendel
   
4. A systematic review of knowledge translation strategies used to promote the uptake of research in child health settings
   Lauren Albrecht

Room 3

1. The Effect of Diesel Exhaust on the Airway Response to Allergen
   Mandy Pui
   
2. Making “it” work: Innovative implementation planning for best practice in Spinal Cord Injury
   Cyndie Koning
   
3. Evidence-Informed Decision Making Process & Knowledge Translation: The Case of Preoperative Skin Preparation at Alberta Health Services
   Trevor Schuler
   
4. Designing an Interdisciplinary Research Program for Tobacco Cessation in Crohn's Disease
   Daniel Grigat

Abstract Presentations: Round 2

Room 1

1. Uptake – The Heart of a New Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach
   Lara Osis
   
2. Developing a following through e-newsletters, video and sticky messages: the kidSKAN experience five years in
   Fleur Macqueen Smith
   
3. Knowledge Translation Planning Primer: A journey of a thousand kilometres begins with a single step
   Munira Lalji
   
4. Survey Data Collection using an iPad App: Experiences from the Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) project
   Lauren Albrecht

Room 2

1. From Commercialization to Valorization: The role of Knowledge Transfer in Innovation Policy
   Rose Geransar
   
2. Pathway to Applying Health Technology and Innovation (HTI) in Healthcare
   Thach Lang
   
3. Innovative Application of the RE-AIM Framework to Organize and Enhance Effective KT Activities for the ABCD Project
   Lisa Wozniak
   
4. If You Build It They Will Come: An Evaluation of CIHR's Integrated Knowledge Translation Programs
   Ryan McCarthy

Room 3

1. Determinants and benefits associated with research-practice collaboration: A literature review
   Mathieu-Joel Gervais
   
2. MCHP and The Need to Know Project: Two Successful Examples of Moving ‘Knowledge into Action’
   Elaine Burland
   
3. Found in Translation-Fostering Collaboration Between Researchers, Practitioners and Policy Makers
   Heather Scarlett-Ferguson

Lunch with Experts and Abstract Award Presentation
Abstract Awards:

• Best Abstract - Reviewers' Choice
• Best Abstract - Oral Presentation
• Best Abstract - Poster

Lunch With Experts

Our Lunch with Experts is a great opportunity for knowledge exchange. Many of our speakers and other subject experts will host lunch tables on Thursday for those who wish to participate. The experts are there to facilitate discussion and respond to questions but equally important, to bring the knowledge of all those at the table into the conversation. Sign-up sheets will be available at the registration desk. There will also be open unhosted tables for those who would rather have an unscripted lunch.

Table 1
Topic: Social Media
Speaker: Dwayne Brunner

Table 2
Topic: Communities of Practice
Speaker: Zahra Nurani

Table 3
Topic: Ethics for Community-Based Research, Evaluation and QI Projects
Speaker: Linda Barrett-Smith

Table 4
Topic: Wikis
Speaker: Doug Walker

Table 5
Topic: Honing that Elevator Speech
Speaker: Karen Thomas

Table 6
Topic: Navigating the Policy World
Speaker: John N. Lavis

Table 7
Topic: Facilitating Conversations
Speaker: Catrin Owen

Social Media Café
Dave Walker, Technical Analyst, Knowledge Exchange Centre Mental Health Commission of Canada
Doug Walker, Trigger Communications

Doug Walker will help facilitate a Social Media Cafe for delegates that will help them understand and work with such tools as Blogs, Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook. Doug is an online and social media communications consultant and practitioner with more than 17 years of experience including developing and launching the original I Am Online (now iam.ca) site for Molson Canadian while at MacLaren McCann. He has since worked with several of the major players in online marketing including Modem Media, Red Sky (San Francisco) and as Director of Strategy at Social Media Group. He is now an independent consultant working under the name Webwalker.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Recap Day 2 from Catrin Owen, Calder Bateman Communications

Evidence-informed Policymaking - Oxymoron or Achievable Goal?
John N. Lavis, Professor and Director, McMaster Health Forum

John will provide a brief summary of the state of research about supporting evidence-informed policymaking, describe the many types of data and research evidence that are needed in policymaking (and the implications for those supporting evidence-informed policymaking), and highlight a number of innovative mechanisms from Canada and other countries for addressing challenges in evidence-informed policymaking (which include working through whether this term is an oxymoron or an achievable goal). He will alternate between introducing these ideas and engaging the audience in discussions about the ideas and what they mean in their local setting.