Starting Monday, Sept. 29, Global National will air a series of reports on living with dementia and how Canadians are adapting to a disease that affects so many - and at a much younger age than you may think.

More info... http://globalnews.ca/news/ 1587560/dawna-friesen-living- in-the-present/?hootPostID= c8b0c3904a9485e56c91cc1cd1ef19 0b

This July, IHSPR and the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) jointly released a discussion paper on the Economic evaluation of complex health system interventions.
Husereau D, Jacobs P, Manns B, Hoomans T, Marshall D, Tamblyn R, on behalf of the IHE- IHSPR Complex Interventions Working Group. Economic evaluation of complex health system interventions: a discussion paper. Edmonton AB: Institute of Health Economics; 2014 July.

The discussion paper provides guidance to those undertaking…

Congratulations to Carole and Greta for making the top 1% of highly cited authors in the world!

"The list is made up of researchers who wrote the highest number of research papers ranking among the top one per cent of most-cited papers by category and year, as indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection between 2002 and 2012. About 3,200 researchers were included in the list."

http://highlycited.com/

Congratulations to Stephanie Chamberlain who has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarthip - Doctoral level at the University of Alberta!

The 2015 TREC Annual General Meeting will take place Thursday and Friday June 4th and 5th, 2015 in Edmonton.  Further details will be provided in early 2015, but we would like to provide you with ample advanced notice to save the date for this important event while planning your 2015 activities.

We hope to see you at the AGM in 2015!

TREC is the successful recipient of a Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Research. This grant also includes funding from across Canada (Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions, Manitoba Health Research Council, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation). The grant is for $615,000 and will fund the Social Network Analysis project.

It was announced on July 1 that Carole Estabrooks, a professor with the Faculty of Nursing and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation, has won the CIHR Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging.

This prize recognizes outstanding achievements and excellence in knowledge translation in aging at a local or regional level. The prize of $20,000 is to foster excellence and innovation in knowledge translation activities. The criteria for the award are specific and extensive…

TREC congratulates Lori Lamont on being the recepient of the Order of Merit from the Canadian Nurses Association for her "...significant and innovative contributions to health care and increas[ing] the status and public recognition of the nursing profession in the areas of clinical practice, education, administration and research and policy."

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