Carole A Estabrooks

Carole Anne Estabrooks is a prominent Canadian applied health services researcher, recognized for her work in knowledge translation. Born in 1954, she obtained her Bachelor of Nursing from the University of New Brunswick in 1977 and later earned her Master's and PhD from the University of Alberta. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and the University of Toronto, she joined the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta in 1987. Estabrooks was appointed as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Knowledge Translation from 2005 to 2010. During this time, she co-founded TREC (Translating Research in Elder Care) with Peter Norton, focusing on improving patient outcomes in long-term care. This initiative used randomized controlled trials and longitudinal studies. She also contributed to the development of the Alberta Context Tool (ACT), which measures organizational context in healthcare settings. By 2013, the ACT was adopted in nine countries and six languages. Estabrooks has received numerous accolades, including being elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and receiving an Alumni Award from the University of New Brunswick. She became a Tier 1 CRC upon concluding her Tier 2 role, earning the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations Distinguished Academic Award. In 2014, she was listed among the highest-cited researchers in her field and awarded the CIHR Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging. In 2016, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to improving healthcare for older Canadians. ...