Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

The Cape Breton (CB) Health Research Symposium's title is Collaboration: A Key to Opening the Doors to Research is on April 23, 2010 & will be run by the CB Health Research Centre. A call for abstracts was sent Aug 1 09 with a submission deadline of Nov 1 09. It attracts local and off island research presentations. The selected researchers will present and discuss the topic collaboration as it pertains to their research with a focus on it as an essential component in the research process. How collaboration occurs in the research process is important to researchers, health decision makers, knowledge users and health institutions. In addition the symposium serves as a venue for the presentation of the Cape Breton Health Research Capacity Builder Award which gives recognition to a health researcher in the community. The event will be at CB University, Sydney, Nova Scotia. The symposium begins at 8:00 am and finishes at 4:00 pm. The day starts with the invited Keynote Speaker, Dr. Stephen Borstein Director of Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research (NLCAHR), addressing all registrants about the centre's knowledge exchange program and the Contextualized Health Research Synthesis Program (CHRSP) highlighting collaboration at all levels. After the Keynote address there will be a nutrition break followed by concurrent sessions to conclude the morning. At each of the sessions there will be opportunities for questions and discussions. At lunch the Capacity Builder Award will be presented. In the afternoon the keynote speaker will take a few examples of studies NLCAHR has produced using the CHRSP methodology and he will to analyze them in greater detail. Next is an exercise session and concluding the day will be a panel presentation with a question and answer period. An evaluation is given to every participant along with a booklet with day's agenda and speakers' information. PowerPoint lectures will be sent via email to participants who send requests.