What's New: 2006 Archives

CCS Heart Failure Consensus Program Welcomes International Perspective!

August 21, 2006

Dr. Claude Lenfant, former Director National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, recently joined the CCS Heart Failure Advisory Roundtable and brings with him a much-welcome international perspective and considerable knowledge translation expertise to the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Program.

"The CCS is very pleased to welcome Dr. Claude Lenfant to the Heart Failure Consensus Advisory Roundtable. CCS is taking the leadership role in identifying best practices in knowledge translation and quantifying their impact on clinical practice patterns and health outcomes. The international perspective and knowledge translation expertise that Dr. Lenfant brings to this Program establishes an important precedent for national implementation of evidence-based care recommendations. Through this unique collaboration with our many Canadian stakeholders and Partners and individuals such as Dr. Lenfant, the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Program will continue to grow and mature and provide meaningful opportunities for collaboration and learning." Heather Ross MD, Chair CCS Consensus Conference Committee

"I am honored and pleased to be invited to join the CCS' Heart Failure Consensus Advisory Round Table. I believe that the CCS program to disseminate consensus recommendations is a very significant step forward to helping patients with this condition. What is most innovative is that the program includes family physicians, pharmacists and nurses who play such a critical role in patient care. This, undoubtedly, will encourage patients and their families to become proactive partners in their own care." Claude Lenfant MD

In his Shattuck Lecture entitled Clinical Research to Clinical Practice – Lost in Translation? (NEJM March 2003), Dr. Lenfant calls for "closing the loop" between research and practice and that "professional organizations must assume a greater role, if not the leading role, in our collective efforts to realize the full public health benefits of research ... (and) ... ensure that these recommendations actually influence the way medicine is practiced." (p. 872)

The CCS Heart Failure Consensus Program aspires to achieve these important goals.

Dr. Lenfant’s entire Shattuck lecture can be accessed by clicking here.

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