PURPOSE
The CANN-NET Knowledge User Committee will work with the Executive Committee and all of the CANN-NET working committees to guide CANN-NET priorities, and to facilitate knowledge translation activities.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- To work in partnership with the Ad Hoc Guidelines Working Group to establish priorities for new Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) guidelines;
- To work in partnership with the Knowledge Translation Committee to establish priorities for new knowledge translation activities
- To work in partnership with the Clinical Trials Group to provide feedback on priority areas for new knowledge
- To ensure adequate communication between knowledge users and the five working committees.
COMPOSITION
- Chair and vice-chair appointed by the CANN-NET Executive Committee
- Members
- between three and five leading Nephrology knowledge users selected based on experience, expertise, and geographic representation
- CANN-NET Chair (ex officio)
- CANN-NET Communications / KT Broker (ex officio)
ACCOUNTABILITY
The Knowledge User Committee is accountable to CANN-NET Executive Committee
MEETINGS
- The Committee meets via online meetings, teleconference, email and other available technology
- If the budget permits, the Committee may meet face-to-face biannually with the working committees, knowledge users and partners ideally in conjunction with other meetings
- Minutes shall be kept for all meetings as a record of discussion and action steps
Current membership of the KU Committee:
Name |
Institutional Affiliation |
Chair: Adeera Levin |
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
Vice-Chair: Steven Soroka |
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS |
Braden Manns (rep Executive Committee) |
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
Andrey Cybulski |
McGill University, Montreal, QC |
Nairne Scott Douglas |
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
Kailash Jindal |
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB |
TBA |
The Kidney Foundation of Canada |
Andrew Steele |
Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON |
Cheryl Harding |
Canadian Association of Nephrology Administrators (CANA) |
Maury Pinsk (rep Pediatrics Committee) |
University of Alberta, CANN-NET Pediatrics Committee rep. |
Selina Allu (KT Broker) |
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |