TUTOR Turns 20 – Knowledge Mobilization Symposium
To celebrate the TUTOR-PHC program’s 20th anniversary, we held a Knowledge Mobilization Symposium from April 27 to April 28 at the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre in London, ON.
The overarching intent of the knowledge mobilization symposium was to co-create capacity for interdisciplinary primary health care research knowledge mobilization to improve health services, health outcomes, and health equity.
The Symposium was attended by a total of 63 participants from across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, and India. This included TUTOR-PHC alumni from nearly all cohorts, patient partners from TUTOR-PHC and Patient Expertise in Research Collaboration (PERC), and representatives from Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR), Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western Research, Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU) and Innovations Strengthening Primary Health (INSPIRE-PHC).
Dr. Moira Stewart presented the “Twenty- Year Impact of TUTOR-PHC” followed by Keynote addresses by Dr. Martin Fortin on “Innovations in Care for People with Multimorbidity: A Story of Knowledge Mobilization” and Dr. Andrew Pinto on “Primary Care Research Platforms and Learning Health Systems: Efficiency, Equity and Community Mobilization”. Dr Amanda Terry was joined by two patient partners, Mr. Ron Beleno and Ms. Lorraine Bayliss, who presented a session on “Strategies re: Patient-Oriented Research and Patient-Partnership-TUTOR-PHC”. The Symposium included networking sessions, interactive poster presentations and small group discussions which focused on Knowledge Mobilization.
Funding acknowledgement: CIHR - IHSPR and Western Research.
