“Getting to Uptake: Leveraging Social Innovation for Practice Change” was held on September 23rd , 2009. This symposium brought together new ideas from business and social media enterprise to professionals from the children's health, education, mental health, and innovation sectors to explore how social media innovations and new thinking might leverage organizational or practice change. The symposium focused on (1) the co-development of new strategies for knowledge translation and practice change, and (2) the re-interpretation of existing strategies that have been applied in one sector but have yet to be adapted for application in another. The “Getting to Uptake: Leveraging Social Innovation for Practice Change” symposium was hosted by Dr. Melanie Barwick and the Community Health Systems Resource Group while the keynote addresses were provided by Dr. Dean L. Fixsen, Dr. Alejandro (Alex) Jadad, Mr. Alan Lepofsky, Dr. Ben Levin, Dr. Alexandra Samuel and Mr. Neil Seeman.

“Getting to Uptake: Leveraging Social Innovation for Practice Change” was sponsored by The Canadian Institute for Health Research and the Hospital for Sick Children.

Video footage of the speaker’s presentations and downloadable copies of presentations can be located by clicking here.

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