Dr. Barwick is a Registered Psychologist with a primary role as a Health Systems Scientist in the Community Health Systems Resource Group at SickKids.  She is Associate Scientist and inaugural Scientific Director of Knowledge Translation in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program of SickKids’ Research Institute, and holds appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. 

Since joining SickKids in 2001 she has led Ontario’s outcome measurement initiative to implement an outcome measure in 114 children’s mental health service provider organizations across the province, requiring the reliability and clinical training of over 6,700practitioners.  Her team supports training, implementation, and data analysis for the province and service providers. 

In this practice context she studies innovative health knowledge translation strategies and has developed the Scientist Knowledge Translation Training program the Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate. She currently leads a 5-year CIHR Emerging Team in Knowledge Translation for Child and Youth Mental Health that will develop and evaluate an innovative implementation model to bring evidence based practices into both the children's mental health and education sectors.  Her program of research is in the areas of knowledge transfer, implementation science, and organizational change, with a particular focus on the transfer of evidence-based interventions and research to mental health practice and the development of innovative knowledge translation approaches. 

She consults to the child and youth mental health sector and is a regular contributor to the CBC Health Weekly Check Up http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/weekly-checkup/index.html

CONTACT INFORMATION
Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Psychologist and Health Systems Scientist
Community Health Systems Resource Group
Scientific Director Knowledge Translation
Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute
The Hospital for Sick Children
www.sickkids.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto

Lead, "CAFAS in Ontario" - Provincial Initiative in Outcome Measurement for Children's Mental Health
www.cafasinontario.ca

Mailing Address: 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8
Tel: 416-813-1085 / Fax: 416-813-7258
Email: melanie.barwick@sickkids.ca
Twitter: Follow @MelanieBarwick