Knowledge Translation Cont...

Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych. is a Registered Psychologist with a primary role as a Health Systems Scientist in the Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is an Associate Scientist and inaugural Director of Knowledge Translation for the Child Health and Evaluative Sciences program of the Research Institute. She holds appointments as Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Since joining SickKids in 2001 her program of research is in implementation science and knowledge translation. She also leads the province of Ontario�s outcome measurement initiative which involves the implementation of the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) as a province-wide outcome measure in 125 children�s mental health service provider organizations across the province and the reliability and clinical training of over 5,000 practitioners. Her team supports training, implementation, and data analysis for the province, providing aggregate data reports from the CAFAS data to individual participating service provider organizations and to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. She consults to the child and youth mental health sector and is a contributor to the CBC Health website.