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Biography
Dr Carole A. Estabrooks is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Alberta, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation. She is a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) and a Fellow in both the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS) and the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She is Scientific Director of the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program (KUSP) and the pan-Canadian Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research program hosted at the University of Alberta.
Estabrooks' applied health services research program focuses on knowledge translation in the health sciences. She studies the influence of organizations on the use of knowledge and its effects on quality of care, quality of life/quality of end of life, and quality of work life outcomes. Her work is primarily situated in the residential long term care sector and focuses increasingly on quality improvement and the spread and scale-up of innovation.