Preliminary program

Thursday May 6, 2010

Time	Event
8.15 am	Registration
9.00 am	Welcome Monica W. Nortvedt, Head of Centre for Evidence Based Practice
9.15 am	Plenary session Getting Practice into Research and Research into Practice. Nicky Cullum, University of York
10:00 am	Plenary session Translating Knowledge Into Practice: the Role of Information Andrew Booth
10.45 am	Posters, Coffee break
11.15 am	Parallel sessions
	1: Strategies for teaching EBP	2: Transferring evidence into practice	Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice* - Andrew Booth
1.00 pm	Lunch
2 pm - 4 pm	Parallel sessions
	1: Strategies for teaching EBP	2: Transferring evidence into practice	Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
7.00 pm	Conference Dinner

Friday May 7, 2010

Time	Event		Event
9.00 am	Plenary session What happens between 'Appraise' and 'Apply'? Making sense of the evidence Janet Harris		Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
9.45 am	Plenary session Øystein Eiring		Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
10.30 am	Coffee break
11.00 am	Plenary session Feeling comfortable with not knowing everything Jonathan Underhill		Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
11.45 am	Posters session
12.15 pm	Parallel sessions		Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
	1: Strategies for teaching EBP	2: Transferring Evidence into Practice
1.00 pm	Lunch
2.00 pm	Parallel sessions		Course: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Andrew Booth
	1: Strategies for teaching EBP	2: Transferring Evidence into Practice
3 - 4 pm	Plenary session/conclusion Gro Jamtvedt

* Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a two-day course for librarians only.

Speakers

Andrew Booth

Andrew Booth is Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield. He is actively involved in all aspects of knowledge translation from evidence production through to dissemination and local implementation. Working primarily within a health services research context Andrew is committed to promoting the role of knowledge management within the evidence based practice of his own profession and that of other healthcare professionals. Andrew is one of the most active trainers of healthcare librarians in Europe, both face-to-face and via e-learning, and has co-edited the only textbook on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.

Øystein Eiring

Øystein Eiring is a specialist in psychiatry and editor of the Norwegian mental health electronic library, and a range of other websites within health and healthcare. Eiring is in charge of implementing evidence-based practice among all employees in one of the main hospital trusts in Norway. He is head of the Norwegian innovation and research program EviCare. A former medical journalist, he has a degree in the history of ideas, literature and language. Eiring has piloted work within evidence-based guidelines, procedures and pathways, patient information and search within databases.

Gro Jamtvedt

Gro Jamtvedt is Associate Professor and Director of Health Services at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre. She also has a part-time position at the Centre for Evidence-Based Practice at Bergen University College.

Professor Monica W. Nortvedt

Professor Monica W. Nortvedt is head of the Centre for Evidence Based Practice, and is Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bergen University College. She also has a part-time position at Løvåsen Teaching Nursing Home, and has responsibility for the implementation of evidence-based practice at both Løvåsen Teaching Nursing Home and The Norwegian Radium Hospital. In addition, Nortvedt heads the new Strategic Research Program in Health Sciences for the Western Health Region of Norway at the Centre for Evidence-Based Practice.

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