Friday, July 27, 2007

PD event - Bridging the gap: translating research into policy and practice


Presented by the HLA Regional Committee (Qld), Associate Professor Ann McKibbon from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University will be presenting the free lecture on knowledge translation, on Tuesday 21 August in the Auditorium, Medical Education Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, 2pm-3pm. Light refreshments will be provided following the presention. ALL WELCOME - no need to RSVP.

For more information click here.

Ann McKibbon BSc, MLS, PhD, is a medical librarian who has been working in the areas of evidence-based medicine, medical informatics, and knowledge translation for more than 25 years at McMaster University inHamilton, ON Canada. Her work includes studies of clinicians using Medline and other information resources as well as the Clinical Queries in PubMED. She received a PhD in medical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 and is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster. She continues her research and teaching in informatics and knowledge translation in the medical school and to other audiences outside the university. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and has taught more than 100 workshops to librarians and health professionals. She enjoys making difficult-to-understand topics (e.g., statistics) easily understood and believes strongly that librarians have a major role to play in research inside librarianship and in other disciplines. Taken from:
http://www.bm.cm-uj.krakow.pl/eahil/cec.php

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