Speakers

Knowledge Exchange Learning Day Facilitator:  Jennifer Shepherd (SHRTN)

Jennifer Shepherd, MA, CAE, enables people to focus their intentions and actions on what matters and make meaningful connections that foster learning and change. Areas of expertise include: organizational development, process design and project planning, facilitation, community network development, and conversational leadership practices. Jennifer currently works as a SHRTN Knowledge Broker.

Welcome and opening remarks
Speakers: Catherine Brookman, Larry Chambers (SHRTN), John Puxty (RGP)

Dr. Catherine Brookman is a Health Care Consultant specializing in the health care programs and services, with a focus on operations, program planning and implementation, quality improvement, evaluation and research.  She holds a Doctorate in Sociology and Equity Studies centering on gerontology and front-line worker retention and also holds a Masters degree specializing in Adult Education and Gerontology. She has assisted many community and long-term care health sector organizations to build and evaluate client services, prepare for accreditation, write requests for proposals, develop and implement programs and marketing materials.  For over 18 years, Catherine has served in senior management positions including community Executive Director Positions and sat on many Provincial organizational Boards.  She is co-chair of the Senior Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) Board of Directors and serves as a Board member for the Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare Board. 

Dr. Larry Chambers is the President and Chief Scientist of the Élisabeth-Bruyère Research Institute (ÉBRI), a partnership of Bruyère Continuing Care and the University of Ottawa. As well, Dr. Chambers is Vice-President, Research, Bruyère Continuing Care. Bruyère Continuing Care, a bilingual organization, is one of the largest academic continuing care centres of its kind in Ontario with 751 beds.Dr. Chambers is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, as well as in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa and an Affiliate Scientist in the Institute of Population Health.

The Benefits of Networking Networks - Bridges to Care
Speaker: John Puxty (AKE, ORC, RGP, and SHRTN)

Dr. John Puxty is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University, Chief of Staff of Providence Care, and Director of the Southeastern Ontario Regional Geriatric Program.  He is co-director of the Centre for Studies in Aging and Health at Providence Care.  He received his medical qualifications in Britain. He has certification as an Internal Medicine Specialist in Geriatric Medicine in both Britain and Canada.He is an experienced academic geriatrician who has an extensive list of publications and academic presentations, and is the co-editor of two books.  He has special interests in the medical administration, areas of development and evaluation of specialized geriatric services, distance education and the use of information technology both as an aid to learning and strategies for effective Knowledge and Information transfer.

What does Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE) involve? 
Facilitators: Megan Harris (AKE) and Elizabeth Lusk (SHRTN and AKE)
Speakers:  Sarah Clark (ORC and AKE) and Ian Newhouse (ORC)

Megan Harris is a knowledge translation consultant and acts as the Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Associate for both the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange and the Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange.  Megan develops knowledge translation networks and the processes and partnerships that support them.

Elizabeth Lusk is a Knowledge Translation Consultant currently working with the Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) as the networks Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Associate and Knowledge Broker for several Communities of Practice. She is also the editor for the Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange (CDRAKE) Online Dementia Knowledge Broker.

Ian Newhouse, BPE, MSc, Ph.D. is Director for the Centre for Education and Research in Aging and Health and Professor in the School of Kinesiology where his principal teaching and research interests are in exercise physiology.  More recently Ian has focused his energies on interprofessional education and care, a natural extension of serving as Dean of the Faculty of Professional Schools.

Sarah Clark, Hon B.A is currently the Resource Coordinator for the Canadian Dementia Resource and Knowledge Exchange.  She is currently pursuing her Masters in Health Studies from Athabasca University and is the 2010 recipient of the ORC Early Researcher Award at Providence Care. Sarah's professional interests include knowledge translation, knowledge brokering and geriatric mental health.

Concurrent Sessions

Option A:     KTE initiatives that support care and or policy practices (organizational, provincial, local / regional)
Facilitator:  Leslie Eckel (SHRTN) -
Speakers:  Clara Fitzgerald - Activity and Aging Community of Practice (SHRTN)
Lois Crowe - Influenza Community of Practice (SHRTN)

Leslie Eckel is a Knowledge Exchange Associate in the department of Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work. She has over twenty years experience working with the aged population in a variety of health care settings and positions. Leslie currently works with John Hirdes PhD  in his role as Chair of the Ontario Home Care Research Network, and as a Knowledge Broker for Senior’s Health Research Transfer Network, promoting knowledge exchange activities related to the field of home care in Ontario.

Clara Fitzgerald is Program Director for the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, based at the Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Western Ontario. She oversees applied research initiatives, model exercise program development, knowledge translation of CCAA research findings, national leadership training, community based programs, advocacy and policy development.

Lois Crowe is the Project Manager for the Canadian Healthcare Influenza Immunization Network and Program Manager for Health of the Elderly at the Élisabeth Bruyère Research Institute.  She has over 10 years working in health research, with a background in political organizing, social housing and social justice.


Option B:     KTE initiatives that support education and learning
Facilitator: Terry Kirkpatrick (SHRTN)
Speakers:  Aura Kagan and Elyse Shumway - Communicative Access and Aphasia Community of Practice (SHRTN)
Heather Woodbeck - Diabetes Community of Practice (SHRTN)

Terry Kirkpatrick (biography to come)

Aura Kagan, PhD is the Executive Director and Director of Applied Research and Education at the Aphasia Institute in Toronto.  The Institute is a non-profit teaching and learning agency dedicated to service, education, research, awareness and advocacy for all those living with aphasia, including families. Aura received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Together with past and present colleagues at the Aphasia Institute, Aura has been instrumental in the development of Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™) – an innovative tool for increasing communicative access to life participation.

Elyse Shumway is a speech-language pathologist with additional post-graduate training in instructional design and educational technology.  She is affiliated with the Aphasia Institute where she assists with the design and delivery of training programs and pictographic resource materials.  She also maintains a private practice specializing in community-based rehabilitation.

Heather Woodbeck RN, BScN, MHSA. Best Practice Coordinator for Long Term Care - Northwestern Ontario. Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.  Heather is Co-leader of the Continence and Diabetes Communities of Practice in the Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN). She compiled the resources on continence and constipation in the RNAO Resource Toolkit.

Option C:     KTE initiatives that support organizational or system change
Facilitators:  Megan Harris (AKE) and Elizabeth Lusk (SHRTN and AKE)
Speakers: Frances Morton-Chang and Elizabeth Lusk (AKE) - Design & Dementia Community of Practice (AKE)
David Harvey and Megan Harris - Behavioural Support System (AKE)

Megan Harris (AKE)  (see biography above)

Elizabeth Lusk (SHRTN and AKE) (see biography above)

Frances Morton-Chang  (biography to come)

David Harvey is the Chief Member Services Officer Alzheimer Society of Ontario and the co-Lead for the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange.  David has played a key role in advancing innovation in dementia care and public policy in Ontario and across Canada. 


Reflecting on our shared KTE experience: What have we learned today?