Program
Symposium 2010
Evidence in Uncertain Times:
Canadian Cochrane Centre
Meeting the Challenge
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Presymposium
Please see the attached PDF for the prices and a full description of the presymposium workshops:
Workshop titles are as follows:
* Cochrane Standard Author Training
* Answer your health questions with The Cochrane Library
* Tailored training for consumers involved in Cochrane
* Health Systems Evidence - a database for policymakers
* Investigating and Dealing with Bias in Systematic Reviews
*Advanced Training for Cochrane Entity Staff and Editors: GRADE and Summary of Findings Tables (access restristed)
*Advanced Training for Cochrane Entity Staff: Workflow System in Archie (access restricted)
All workshops will be conducted in English
19-20 May 2010
Confirmed Plenary Speakers: (Titles to be finalized):
Plenary 1: Mining the research: using synthesis to uncover what we know.
Speakers:
Dr Lorne Becker; Co-Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group, Family Physician and Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Primary Health Field
Dr Mark Helfand; Director, Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) at the Oregon Health and Science University
Dr David Tovey; Editor-in-Chief of The Cochrane Library
Plenary 2: Making complex decisions in complex environments: policy and practice needs
Speakers: TBD
Plenary 3: A public health success story: meeting the challenge of using evidence in public health settings
Synopsis:
Public health practitioners strive every day to make decisions that are informed by the best available evidence. Funders and those accountable for public health outcomes urge practitioners to allocate resources and implement programs that are grounded in evidence. This plenary panel discussion will focus on the realities of finding and applying evidence in the context of program decision-making in public health. The panel will examine the steps and process of evidence-informed decision-making using a real-life story to illustrate the organizational-, management- and individual-level challenges faced by decision makers in public health.
Speakers:
Maureen Dobbins; Associate Professor Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and School of Rehabilitation Sciences; School of Nursing, McMaster University. Principle Investigator on Health-evidence.ca
Symposium Themes
Health planning – there’s nothing constant but change
• Responding to crisis with evidence
• Evidence and policy: Opportunities and
challenges
• Evidence-based tools/training for policy
makers
Shared evidence, shared decision making
• Bridging the clinician-patient relationship
• Patient values and context vs. evidence
• Consumer involvement in Cochrane
• Engaging the public with research
Moving methodology forward
• Updating reviews
• Different types of reviews
• Dealing with complexity in reviews
• Publishing issues
• Capacity building for reviewers
Communicating the evidence
• Communicating the evidence in an easier way
• New Cochrane-based products
• Using web technologies to get evidence into
practice
• Turning evidence into recommendations
Keynote speakers and program details are currently being finalized*Accreditation for
Physicians
CCC is currently finalizing accreditation approval with the Office of Continuing Education at the University of Ottawa. We anticipate physicians all across Canada will receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for attending the symposium.
Sonya Corkum; Vice-President Knowledge Exchange and Communications; Ontario’s Agency for Health Promotion and Protection
Bev Bryant; Manager, Education and Research;
Peel Public Health
