Dr. Carole Estabrooks

Carole Estabrooks has been a member of the faculty and principal investigator of the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program since 1997. She holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair (2005-2018) in Knowledge Translation (http://www.chairs.gc.ca/). She is cross appointed in the School of Public Health (http://www.publichealth.ualberta.ca/). Dr Estabrooks supervises undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and teaches in the knowledge translation area. Her research focuses on basic and applied aspects of inquiry in the knowledge translation and knowledge/research utilization fields. She has been the recipient of several awards and achievements among them, the CAFA Distinguished Academic Award (2010), the Alumni Award of Distinction, University of New Brunswick (2007), the Alumni Horizon Award (2002), and career scientist awards from CIHR/MRC (Health Scholar, 2000-2005) and AHFMR (Population Health Investigator, 2000-2003). In 2007 Dr Estabrooks was elected to Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurses. She is a past member and Vice-Chair of the CIHR Institute of Aging.

Clinical and Teaching Areas

Dr Estabrooks teaches in the areas of knowledge translation, policy analysis, research methods, and organizational and health care outcomes. She typically mentors graduate students whose interests are in organizational aspects of health care delivery as they influence research uptake and subsequently organization, provider, and resident/patient level outcomes. In addition to graduate students she supervises postdoctoral fellows and honors undergraduate students. Several CIHR and AHFMR funded post doctoral fellows currently work with her. Dr Estabrooks teaches INT D 690 (Topics in Knowledge Utilization) and has taught NURS 503 (Research Methods), NURS 600 (Theory Development), NURS 683 (Advanced Research Design) and NURS 699 (Dissertation Seminar).

Research

Dr Estabrooks' research focuses on knowledge translation (research utilization, knowledge utilization, research implementation) theory, knowledge translation interventions, the role of organizational context in facilitating knowledge translation, and the effect of knowledge translation on resident/patient and provider outcomes. She conducts her studies in a number of settings including acute care, home care and pediatrics but the majority of her research is conducted in residential long term care settings. In addition to the active grants listed below, Dr Estabrooks is closely affiliated with the CDKTN and KT Canada. She has developed the Alberta Context Tool^©(ACT), currently being used in nine countries and five languages. The ACT measures modifiable elements of organizational context.

Active Projects: Principal Investigator

Advancing Theoretical and Methodological Innovations in Health Research: Measuring Organizational Context: Advanced Psychometric Assessment of the Alberta Context Tool. (CIHR grant, 2010-2012) Estabrooks, C.A. (PI), Squires, J.S., Hayduk, L., Norton, P.G., Cummings, G.G. ($195,827).
Safer Care for Older Persons (in Residential) Environments (SCOPE): A Knowledge Translation Intervention (Health Canada, Health Care Policy Contribution Program, 2010-2012). Estabrooks, C.A. (PI), Norton, P.G., Cummings, G.G., Cranley, L. ($750, 000). http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/Research/ActiveProjects/SCOPE.aspx
Translating Research In Elder Care (TREC) (CIHR grant, 2007-2012). Estabrooks, C.A. (PI), Cummings, G.G., Degner, L.F., Dopson, S., Laschinger, H., McGilton, K., Morgan, D., Norton, P., Profetto-McGrath, J., Rycroft-Malone, J., Sales, A., Smith, M., Stewart, N., and Teare, G. ($4.7M). http://www.trec.ualberta.ca/

Active Projects: Co-Investigator

Older Persons' Transitions in Care (OPTIC) (CIHR Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) Grant, 2009-2012). Cummings, G.G.(PI), Konnert, J. (Co-PI), Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Reid, C., Keating, N., Bottoroff, J., Lee, J., Nykiforuk, C., Parke, B., Robinson, C., Rowe, B., Wagg, A. ($980,780).
http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/nav03.cfm?nav03=96526&nav02=74829&nav01=74810
Knowledge Translation Canada: A CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (CIHR Training Grant, 2009-2015). Grimshaw, J.M. (PI), Straus, S.E. (PI), Estabrooks, C.A., et al. ($1,778,626). http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/nav03.cfm?nav03=96434&nav02=74831&nav01=74810

Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence (FIRE) (European Union 7^th framework programme grant, 2009-2013). Seers, K. (PI), Harvey, G., Rycroft-Malone, J., McCormack, B., McCarthy, G., Wallin, L., Estabrooks, C.A., Tichen, A. ($4.6M).
http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/FIRE.cfm
Data for Improvement and Clinical Excellence (DICE) Program (CHSRF REISS program & Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) grant, 2008-2012). Sales, A. (PI), Schalm, C., Estabrooks, C.A., Maxwell, C., Warren, S., Anderson, M., Elliot, K., Lai, V., Liu, L., Maisey, S., Neumann, I. ($796,890). http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/DICE.cfm

CIHR Team Grant in Children’s Pain & Translating Research on Pain in Children (TROPIC). (2006-2012). Stevens, B. (PI), Estabrooks, C.A., Lee, S., McGrath, P., Johnson, C., et al. ($4.05M, $1.4M). https://www.childrenspainstudy.ca/

Active Projects: Team Member

Knowledge Translation Canada: A National Research Network. (CIHR CFI grant, 2008-2013) Grimshaw, G. (PI), Straus, S., Haynes, B., Laupacis, A., Legare, F., O’Connor, A., Sales, A., Laupacis, A., Lavis, J., Godin, G., Majumdar, S., (Estabrooks, CA., Network Member). ($10M). http://decision.chaire.fmed.ulaval.ca/index.php?id=113&L=2
Canadian Dementia Knowledge Translation Network (CDKTN). (CIHR grant, 2008-2013) Rockwood, K. (PI), Chertkow, H., Feldman, H., Keefe, J.M., Le Clair, J.K., (Estabrooks, C.A., Senior Network Leader), et al. ($3.45M). http://communications.medicine.dal.ca/newsroom/cdktn.htm

Selected Publications

Estabrooks, C.A., Morgan, D.G., Squires, J.E., Boström A.M., Slaughter, S., Cummings, G.G., Norton, P.G. (2011). The care unit in nursing home research: Evidence in support of a definition. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11:46. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-11-46
Estabrooks, C.A., Squires, J.E., Cummings, G.G., Birdsell, J.M., Norton, P.G. (2009). Development and assessment of the Alberta Context Tool. BMC Health Services Research, 9:234. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-234
Estabrooks, C.A., Derksen, L., Lavis, J.N., Winther, C., Scott, S.D., Wallin, L., Profetto-McGrath, J. (2008). The intellectual structure and substance of the knowledge utilization field: A longitudinal author co-citation analysis, 1945-2004. Implementation Science, 3:49. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-3-49
Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P., Birdsell, J.M., Newton, M.S., Adewale, A.J., & Thornley, R. (2008). Knowledge translation and research careers: Mode I and Mode II activity among health researchers. Research Policy, 37(6-7), 1066-1077. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2008.04.006
Estabrooks, C.A. (1999). The conceptual structure of research utilization. Research in Nursing & Health, 22, 203–216. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199906)22:3<203::AID-NUR3>3.0.CO;2-9

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Current Trainees

MN Students

Heather Carleton, BSc (University of Alberta), BScN (University of Western Ontario)

Christine Ferguson, BScN (Laurentian University)

Kaylie Hoglin

Christina Manraj

Boris Woytowich

For a complete list of trainees see www.kusp.ualberta.ca

Carole A Estabrooks, RN PhD FCAHS FAAN
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation

Email: carole.estabrooks@ualberta.ca
Website: http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca
Phone: 780.492.3451
Fax: 780.492.6186
Office: 5-007E

Mailing address:
Faculty of Nursing
Level 3, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 87 Avenue
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 1C9

Educational Background

Postdoctoral fellowship, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto (2000)
PhD, Nursing, University of Alberta (1997)
MN, University of Alberta (1987)
BN, University of New Brunswick (1977)

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