Deconstructing Translational Research: What Works And What Doesn’t

Session Type: Professional Development Session

Abstract

Some of the most pivotal research on child development fails to reach its most critical audience – children and families. Often, the most challenging barrier can be the process of translating work into practical and actionable tools for wide scale and dissemination. In this workshop, we outline our strategy in developing evidence-based programming for the healthcare setting, born from decades of research on child development and positive parenting behaviors. The unique, repeated interaction between healthcare providers and families offers an unmet opportunity to encourage and promote early childhood development. In a variety of programs developed through a partnership with the Mount Sinai Parenting Center and Bezos Family Foundation, we will detail successful strategies used to identify the problem, articulate a theory of change, align with like-minded partners, present a compelling business case, solicit feedback and address challenges, all while considering interprofessional roles, resource constraints such as time, availability and expertise, and existing interventions and supports. Strategies shared will help audience to realize potential for scale in their own work and best practices around implementation design and scale.

Participants: Aliza Pressman, PhD, Ellen Galinsky, MS, Blair Hammond, MD and Mariel Benjamin, LCSW.

In this session we will:
• Share strategies around how to effectively translate child development research into actionable and scalable programming
• Highlight the opportunities for this work in the healthcare setting
• Share lessons learned from creating and delivering interprofessional programming for healthcare audience
• Identify best practices for future intervention design and implementation

Sub Unit

• Professional Development Sessions

Session Organizers

• Mariel Benjamin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Aliza W. Pressman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Participants

• Mariel Benjamin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Aliza W. Pressman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Blair S Hammond, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Ellen Galinsky, Bezos Family Foundation