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Dissemination & Implementation Short Course 2019

Design For Dissemination

2019 Short Course Keynote Speakers

 

Jim Dearing

JAMES W. DEARING, PhD

Jim Dearing holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and is Brandt Endowed Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. Dearing studies the diffusion of innovations, including the adoption and implementation of new evidence-based practices, programs, technologies and policies. His research and teaching spans dissemination science, implementation science, program sustainability, and the psychological and sociological basis of the diffusion process. He works with research and practice improvement teams in environmental remediation, nursing care, water conservation, injury and fatality prevention, public health, and healthcare. He has been PI for research grants from NSF, EPA, NCI, AHQR, and private foundations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

Sharon Straus

SHARON E. STRAUS, MD

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.

2019 Short Course Agenda & Resources

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Thursday November 7th

Welcome & Introduction to D&I Short Course

Speaker: Jane Mahoney, Kim Kies

Objectives:

    1. Design for Implementation vs. Design for Dissemination from the beginning. What elements are seen in both and where do they differ.
    2. What are the key elements of Implementation Strategies.
    3. How do you consider designing for dissemination at the same time that you consider implementation strategies.

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Diffusion of Innovations: From Rogers to Today

Speaker: Jim Dearing

Objectives:

    1. Explain the Diffusion of Innovations theory and how it informs developing evidence-based interventions today.
    2. Describe the importance of incorporating the perspectives of different stakeholders groups into the research process.
    3. Discuss how to identify and engage with adopters.
    4. Describe strategies for fitting engagements with adopters into a study design.

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Design Thinking for Implementation: Using Design Thinking as a Strategy to Design Innovations

Speakers: Michelle Kwasny, Susan Passmore, Lori Diprete Brown

Objectives:

    1. Learn what Design Thinking is.
    2. Understand how Design Thinking could benefit research.
    3. Build skills in applying Design Thinking processes to research questions.

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Using Systematic review strategies to help design evidence-based interventions

Speaker: Sharon Straus

Objectives:

    1. Examine how to use systematic reviews to inform innovation design.
    2. Increase knowledge of novel methods for knowledge synthesis.
    3. Increase knowledge on how to match research questions to the type of knowledge synthesis method.
    4. Investigate an example research question to examine how a systematic review works in practice.

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Designing for Adoption:  Lessons Learned from the Field

Speakers: Mondira Saha-Muldowney, Betty Chewning, Dave Gustafson

Objectives:

    1. Describe the significance of value propositions for research innovations.
    2. Discuss when and how to bring in adopters and purveyors into a research innovation.
    3. Identify strategies to fit context into study designs.

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Choosing full spectrum Frameworks to use from beginning to end              

Speaker: Sharon Straus

Objectives:

    1. Compare and contrast full spectrum D&I frameworks to use when supporting a project from beginning to end.
    2. Increase skills in how to choose what framework to use and how to apply with research innovation projects.
    3. Enhance knowledge and understanding of the different types of knowledge syntheses that can be used to inform D&I work.

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Friday November 8th

Scaling up and Sustaining Innovations

Speaker: Jim Dearing

Objectives:

    1. Identify methods to scale up and sustain innovations.
    2. Describe approaches and the benefits of working with purveyors.
    3. Gain an appreciation for the trade offs in scale up decision-making concerning pathways, partnerships and intervention fidelity.
    4. Understand how to conceptualize and measure intervention sustainability.

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Processes for Scale-Up and Spread:  Help get UW Interventions into the Field

Speaker: Mondira Saha-Muldowney

Objectives:

    1. Evaluate and refined innovative scale-up and spread methods.

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Evidence to Impact Success Stories

Speakers: Andrew Quanbeck, Heidi Brown, Meg Wise

Objectives:

    1. Summarize key reasons for success among showcased projects.
    2. Identify characteristics that contribute to successfully scaling up projects.

Presentation, Video & Resources

2019 Short Course Resources