Moving Palliative and End-of-life Care Forward

May 17-21, 2010
Tory Building TB 95
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Adrian Wagg, MB BS FRCP FHEA

Canada Research Chair in Healthy Ageing, and Professor and Director of Geriatric Medicine, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine. He qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1988. He trained in General and Geriatric medicine in and around London and was appointed as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in General Internal and Geriatric Medicine to University College London Hospitals in 1997 and then moved to Edmonton in 2010 as Chair in Healthy Ageing.

He has published many peer reviewed publications, chapters and reviews on the subject, spoken widely and is nationally and internationally recognized. His interests are in incontinence in the elderly, the effects of medication and co-morbidity on continence status, the epidemiology and aetiology of incontinence in the elderly, knowledge transfer and clinical effectiveness.

He is an Associate Director of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit of the Royal College of Physicians, in England where he leads the continence in older people programme and a national clinical effectiveness programme in continence care.

Topic

• What is knowledge translation today

A second generational and applied review of KT research and the use of KT research information, with a specific focus on policy-maker and decision-maker use of research information