September 2024 - Present

Lay Summary

Through previous co-creation workshops hosted by the lab, patient education was determined as a key factor in ensuring the effective use of health technologies in patient care. In-person interactive events serve as important tools for sharing knowledge and can also create opportunities for community building and support systems. Our goal is to build awareness of existing and emerging health technologies for patients, caregivers, and care providers by hosting a series of introductory workshops. Each session will be led by an expert to introduce an existing or emerging health technology. We will use feedback from workshop participants to identify key information for one-page technology summaries and short videos, which will be distributed through our research-user network. The final workshop features graduate student presentations that showcase their research and train the next generation of researchers and technology developers in effective public communication.

Personal Contributions

I have a valuable opportunity to be a Trainee for the series of workshops mentioned above. I am leading with Professor Sparrey on event planning and team coordination. Additionally, I am responsible for designing and creating short videos highlighting the health technologies discussed to maximize dissemination.