Cross-Cutting
Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)
Brain Injury
Instructional Course
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Larissa Swan, MS, OTR
Director Rehabilitation Services
West Florida Rehabilitation Institute
Pensacola, Florida
Christopher Carter, PsyD, CBIST
Director of Continuity for Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
boston, Massachusetts
April Groff, PhD
Program Director
Learning Services, North Carolina Region
Raliegh, North Carolina
Frank Becker, MD, PhD
Clinical Medical Director
Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
Nesoddtangen, Oslo
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Anne-Margrethe Linnestad, OT
Senior Occupational Therapist
Suunaas Rehabilitation Hospital
Nesoddtangen, Akershus
Vilde Mykkeltveit, Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist, TBI Unit
Sunnaas Rehabiliation Hospital
Bjornmemyr, Oslo
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Implementation of evidence based interventions (EBI) has proven to be a challenge in the rehabilitation community. Literature indicates that the integration of EBI into consistent practice can take 17 or more years. Therefore, individuals are not benefitting from interventions evidence has shown will enhance the rehabilitation process. This workshop will provide an overview of Knowledge Implementation theory, the Knowledge-to-Action cycle. Participants will have an opportunity to work in facilitated groups to begin a preliminary analysis of their own organization to develop plans as to how to capitalize on facilitators and overcome barriers to implementing EBI as a practice standards.
