• SEARCH Classic
• SEARCH Custom
• Seed Funding
• 2009 SEARCH Forum
• Awards of Excellence
• Events
  • Network Leadership Summits and Symposium
  • EXTRA/SEARCH Evaluation Workshops
  • 2007 Forum/Conference
• Knowledge Services
• SEARCH Network

2007 Forum and Conference

Every two years, following the completion of a SEARCH Classic cohort, SEARCH Canada holds a one-day forum to facilitate knowledge transfer and networking among the wider SEARCH network. Following is a summary of the 2007 event:

SEARCH Forum

The SEARCH Network Forum ‘by and for’ SEARCHers welcomes SEARCHers from across the province and beyond. The forum provides an opportunity for continued learning in evidence based practice and to further the capacity of the SEARCH network in promoting the exchange and application of evidence to guide practice and policy. The Forum theme in 2007 was “Doing what works: Network innovation in practice” and marked the completion of the fifth two-year cycle of SEARCH activities, SEARCH V, and the beginning of SEARCH VI.

Highlights of the 2007 event, held June 14 in Edmonton, included the panel of Network Leaders and the skills development sessions, a number of which were led by SEARCHers themselves. At a dinner celebrating the SEARCH Community Recognition Awards and the SEARCH IV cohort the SEARCH network recognized Ms. Sandy Doze, who retired this Spring, for her many contributions, and Ms. Kelly Deis, who left the Centre for Health Evidence to take a new position, for her many roles in SEARCH.

In 2007, SEARCH Canada hosted a one-day conference in conjunction with the Forum.

SEARCH Conference

The 2007 SEARCH Conference, held June 15, was themed, “Doing what works: A decade of Innovation and Accountability in the Health System”. Those attending ranged from front line clinicians to senior managers who support and are involved in conducting and applying research in many areas of health including; nursing, family medicine, rehabilitation, health promotion and mental health. The conference provided a province-wide networking and information exchange opportunity for those who support the use of research to inform health care in Alberta.

Some 160 registrants attended this event, which included the presentation of the SEARCHing for Excellence Awards by the Minister of Health at an awards luncheon. Other highlights included a panel of Chief Executive Officers offering their views on the accomplishments in evidence-based management in health care over the past 10 years, and a keynote presentation by Mark Federman from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, titled “How do we know? The Changing Culture of Knowledge.”