Community of Practice Activities to Date

Events

  • Focusing on Sustainability: EXTRA Community of Practice meeting in Montreal (March 2007)

    EXTRA fellows tapped into the knowledge of change and sustainability experts Jean-Louis Denis and Marcel Villeneuve in an effort to enhance their knowledge of methods for ensuring the sustainability of their intervention projects. Fellows took the opportunity to ask questions and share insights on the topic of sustainability, clarifying different definitions of the term and discussing how their projects have affected cultural change and how to adapt to ongoing change.


  • Championing collaboration and quality improvement: Community of Practice session at the EXTRA residency session in Alberta (August 2007)

    Both current and graduated cohorts of EXTRA fellows gathered in Kananaskis, Alberta or connected remotely through web and teleconference to enhance their knowledge around online collaborative tools and how to use these emerging technologies to stay connected. Fellows heard from Maura Davies, CEO for the Saskatoon Health Region, about her efforts to use blogging as an internal communication tool and the benefits and pitfalls that come with the practical application of this technology. Fellows also got a sneak peek at the Foundation’s dissemination initiative on quality, touring some of the podcasts and resources included in the initiative.

Recent Community Member Activities

Activity

Fellows involved

Research Use Weeks
Tailored to each region, the Research Use Week program aims to bundle an assortment of research use tools and approaches, and brings them directly to health system managers and policy makers in their own communities. The overall goal is to encourage and improve regional evidence-informed decision-making in health system policy and management. More information can be found at www.chsrf.ca/ruweeks_e.php.
  • Luc Boileau (Québec)
  • Ester Leclerc (Québec)
  • Lucie Grenier (Québec)
  • Nancy Roberts (Moncton)
  • Lise Roy (Moncton)
  • Andrea Seymour (Moncton)
  • Susan Smith (Moncton)
  • Steven Soroka (Moncton)
  • Lindsay Campbell (Moncton and Prince George)
  • Bonnie Urquhart (Prince George)
  • Linda Sawchenko (Prince George)
  • Owen Heisler (Prince George)
  • Beverly Adamson (Sudbury)
  • Sonja Glass (Sudbury)
  • Kevin Mercer (Sudbury)
  • John Ruetz (Sudbury)
  • Heather Hoxby (Sudbury)

CHSRF 10th Anniversary  Conference (March 21-22, 2007)
An invitational conference exploring some of the past and future ideas that have influenced and will influence those supporting evidence-informed decision-making.

  • Susan Richardson (presenter)
  • Brock Wright (presenter)

Canadian College of Health Service Executives 2007 National Healthcare Leadership Conference (June 11-12, Toronto)
The theme for the 2007 gathering of health system decision makers in Canada was “Innovation in Health Services: From Local Leadership to National Performance.”
  • Lise Roy (presenter)
  • Susan Smith (presenter)
  • Dylan Taylor (presenter)
  • Carl Taillon (presenter)
  • John Knoch (presenter)
  • Patty O’Connor (presenter)

CHSRF Dissemination Initiative, Building the Case for Quality
The goal of Building the Case for Quality is to raise awareness among healthcare managers, policy makers and others about the evidence on healthcare quality and ways to improve it. Through this series of webcasts and articles and at events that will bring together researchers and decision makers, the Foundation hopes to encourage organizations and care providers to talk about evidence on how to bring excellence to healthcare and provide tools for tackling quality issues.
  • Noella Leydon (podcast interview)

Articles of Interest
The fall 2007 issue (Vol. 10, No. 4) of Longwood’s Healthcare Quarterly featured an article profiling the EXTRA community of practice.Read the article here .
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