First Webinar - A Success!

Thank you to Ben Milder, Elizabeth Wenk and Andrew Peters from Burness Communications for kicking off our Translation webinar series!

If you missed their presentation on how to "Translate Research into Policy," please click here to view the presentation on your desktop. You can also download or request the related materials:

• Findings vs. Message
• Practical Tips to Influence Policy and Change the World
• To receive the Connect Manual, please email Heather Kelley

This series is co-sponsored by the INQRI program and the Donaghue Foundation.

Upcoming Webinar - Register Now!

You've gone through the process of writing your grant proposal, made it through the various application stages, received your funding, completed your work and now wonder to yourself... "Now what?"

If you are wondering about how to reach policy makers and how to encourage evidence-based decision-making, tune in next Monday for the first INQRI-Donaghue webinar:

Translating Research into Policy

Speaker: Ben Milder, Burness Communications

Date: January 25, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST

Click here to register.

The Next Step in Our Partnership

The INQRI program and the Donaghue Foundation are pleased to announce the next step in our collaboration. We are continuing the discussion we began at the Funders Forum with a series of webinars focused entirely on translation. This series will begin in January, 2010. Please click the links below to pre-register and contact Heather Kelley if you have any questions.

Translating Research into Policy
Speaker: Ben Milder, Burness Communications
Date: January 25, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Implementing the Transitional Care Model
Speakers: Mary Naylor, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, University of Pennsylvania and Randall Krakauer, M.D., Aetna
Date: March 2, 2010: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?
Speaker: Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., Yale University
Date: April 7, 2010: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Implementation Science and QUERI
Speaker: Brian Mittman, Ph.D., VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative(QUERI)
Date: April 20, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
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Does Improving Quality Save Money?

QUERI Implementation Practice Seminar

Does improving quality save money? A review of research and research methods.
Presentation by John Ovretveit, PhD
Monday, November 9, 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

** Advance registration is now required **

Register for the session on November 9

Check your Live Meeting settings in advance

Questions? Email cyberseminar@va.gov

This is a QUERI Implementation Practice Seminar Presentation. For more information on these and other HSR&D Cyber Seminars go to http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars.

Seminar Series: Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy

Are you near the University of Connecticut Health Center? If so, check out this seminar series...

The Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy
2009 – 2010 Seminar Series

The TRIPP Center series focuses on practice-oriented translational research, seeking to improve processes of care and health outcomes by accelerating the transfer of evidence-based medical practice into the community. This year the emphasis is on translational informatics. We have invited leaders in each area to present and provide our audience with the opportunity to learn about their research.

Seminars are held Thursdays at 12 noon at the Low Learning Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center

* Except November 19th which will be simulcast from Storrs to the TRIPP Conference Room located in Dowling South.

Nov. 19, 2009

Jeremey Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP

Building the Science of Knowledge Translation
University of Ottowa * Co-sponsorship with CHIP at Storrs

Dec. 3, 2009

Victor Villagra, MD, FACP

Public Utility Model for Chronic Care

Health & Technology Vector, Inc.

Jan. 14, 2010

William Rollow , MD, MPH HIT

Medical Home & Perspective of Payor

Emblem Health

Feb. 4, 2010

Richard Shiffman, MD, FAAP

Decision Support In Pediatric Asthma

Yale University

Mar. 11, 2010

Mr. Mark Borton

HIT Solutions for Primary Care
Equity Health Partners, LLC

Apr. 8, 2010

Lisa Kern, MD

Pay-for-Performance, Medical Home Implementation and Health Care Quality
Weill Cornell Medical College

For more information on the seminar series, please click here.

An update from the declaration committee...

Guiding Principles and Implementation Strategies for the Funders Forum Group

A subgroup of volunteers from the Funders Forum has met to begin drafting what could become a “Proclamation” based on the ideas and perspectives that were presented by participants at the meeting this past July. Our work at this point has involved a review of the notes from our July meeting and some telephone and email discussions to develop a draft proposal of what we are referring to as principles and implementation strategies for the group to consider. These priniciples are neither formalized nor finalized and we will be presenting the draft to the entire group within the next two months.

Joining together to assert our declaration!

Thank you to those who have volunteered to serve on the committee for our "declaration" project. If you have not yet volunteered, it's not too late. Please email Heather Kelley if you are interested.

As this group begins their work, we will be sharing their products via this blog... so keep your eye on this space!