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Implementation Science 2019, 14(Suppl 1):27 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0878-2 MEETINGABSTRACTS Open Access Proceedings from the 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation Washington, DC, USA. 3-5 December 2018 Published: 25 March 2019 I1 importance of meeting the needs of end-users where they are, a sen- Introduction timent echoed by other plenary speakers across the three plenary Gila Neta1, David Chambers1, Lisa Simpson2 panel sessions. These sessions included one focusing on scaling up 1National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA; 2AcademyHealth, effective interventions particularly in low resource settings, and two Washington, DC, USA focusing on building capacity for D & I science within community Implementation Science 2019, 14(Suppl 1):I1 and healthcare settings, respectively. Each plenary panel enabled ac- tive dialogue between presenters and with the audience, further In December 2018, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Acade- deepening the discussion and surfacing many of the nuances and is- myHealth co-hosted the 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dis- sues in D&I science. Major themes across all the plenaries included semination and Implementation (D&I) in Health, “Scaling up Effective the importance of building relationships and trust among stake- Health and Healthcare: Advancing the Research Agenda and Necessary holders, focusing on the end-user’s needs, working across sectors to Infrastructure.” Reflecting increased interest in the field and growth in facilitate implementation and scale up, and understanding the value our research community, we had record attendance with nearly 1,300 of processes to inform generalizable strategies for implementation. researchers, practitioners and policymakers convening in Washington, The thematic tracks through which concurrent sessions were orga- DC, including a large number of attendees who had not previously nized once again included Behavioral Health, Big Data and Technol- taken part in the conference series. This eleventh iteration of the con- ogy for Dissemination and Implementation Science, Clinical Care ference balanced its three-day research agenda among concurrent Settings (separated into two tracks: Patient-Level Interventions and paper sessions, hundreds of posters, a keynote speaker and three plen- System-Level Interventions), Global Dissemination and Implementa- ary panels, all touching upon the conference theme of scaling up ef- tion Science, Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities, fective health and healthcare as well as building capacity and the Health Policy Dissemination and Implementation Science, Prevention necessary infrastructure in the field. This supplement contains the ab- and Public Health, and Models, Measures and Methods, and Building stracts from the concurrent sessions, reflecting the variety of dissemin- the Future of D & I Science: Training, Infrastructure, and Emerging Re- ation and implementation research supported and disseminated by our search Areas. This supplement is once again organized by these track conference sponsors, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), themes. AcademyHealth, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The call for abstracts generated 787 submissions, including individual (AHRQ), the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the paper presentations, individual posters and panel presentations Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the US Department of spread across the ten tracks. Over one hundred reviewers from mul- Veterans Affairs (VA). Although not included in this supplement, an tiple disciplines, sectors, settings and career stages devoted their additional 405 papers were presented in poster format and can be time to ensuring a comprehensive review, and reviews were con- viewed at https://academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/2018di/ ducted within each track and coordinated by the track leads. For the meetingapp.cgi/ModulePosterSessions/0. final program, 127 papers across 32 oral abstract sessions, 41 papers We marked the fifth year of a partnership between the NIH and Aca- across 13 panels, and 405 posters were presented over the three-day demyHealth in co-hosting the conference and were assisted by a meeting, in addition to a “poster slam.” Slides for the oral presenta- multidisciplinary program planning committee which informed the tions and panels (with the agreement of the authors) were posted plenary session development, recruited key speakers and developed on the conference website and all abstracts were included on the the topics for workshops, one of several new elements of the confer- conference webapp. For the third year in a row, a poster slam was ence this year. We organized concurrent sessions across ten tracks, held, which enabled the ten top scoring posters to be presented in with two to three leads per track developing the call for abstracts, rapid succession, sharing key findings in five minutes each. New this and chairing review panels to select thematic sessions. We also con- year, we also hosted a Best of D&I Session which brought together vened a scientific advisory panel to advise on the overall conference, five papers presented during the conference across five different particularly highlighting the theme of scaling up effective health and tracks to highlight major lessons learned and their value to the field. healthcare in community, public health, and healthcare settings, with We also offered poster walks with leading experts in the field and se- a focus on low resource settings. lected a Best Poster award for which the top ranked poster in each We were pleased to host Dr. Amy Abernethy, then chief medical offi- track competed. A final innovation this year, was the provision of a cer, chief scientific officer and senior vice president, oncology, at Flat- limited number of scholarships for patients to attend the conference iron Health, who delivered the keynote address “Making learning as well as for participants from low and middle income countries health systems a reality: Data, technology, analysis, implementation, (thanks in part to support from the Fogarty Center). and iteration.” Dr. Abernethy showcased the value of predictive ana- This supplement has compiled the abstracts for presented papers lytics to tailor treatment, demonstrating how real-world clinical data and panel sessions from the 11th Annual Conference on the Science that is typically unstructured and often disconnected across health- of Dissemination and Implementation in Health – Scaling up Effective care systems can be integrated in real time to promote the imple- Health and Healthcare: Advancing the Research Agenda and Neces- mentation of personalized care. Further, she highlighted the sary Infrastructure. We are pleased to have the combined © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Implementation Science 2019, 14(Suppl 1):27 Page 2 of 66 proceedings from the conference together in one volume once adherence and criminal risk intervention to be delivered directly by again, and look forward to the 12th Annual meeting, anticipated for probation officers for probationers with SMI. December 2019 in Washington, DC, which we hope will show ever Methods: The design for implementation process began by conven- increasing interest in the field and quality of the work underway. ing a series of collaborative meetings with the implementation site – a specialized mental health probation unit within the Cook County (IL) Adult Probation Department. These meetings elicited probation Behavioral Health officer tasks and roles; existing training and stated needs; examin- ation of probation protocols and required paperwork; and officer ac- S1 ceptability of additional intervention concepts. Next, research staff A randomized trial of deimplementation in response to new observed intake and regular supervision sessions between probation technology: The teachtown study 1 1 1 officers and probationers with SMI, to gain a real-world sense of the David Mandell , Melanie Pellecchia , Gwendolyn Lawson , Nathaniel context in which the intervention would be implemented. A central Williams2, Rinad Beidas1 1 2 activity that drove the intervention design involved a series of stake- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Boise State holder panels consisting of probation staff, former probationers with University, Boise, ID, USA SMI, mental health treatment providers, advocates, and other individ- Correspondence: David Mandell ([email protected]) uals with lived experience. Implementation Science 2019, 14(Suppl 1):S1 Findings: Across the stakeholder panel meetings and alternating consultations with implementation site leadership, numerous topics Background: The growing number of students with autism has re- were identified and discussed, including: defining key mental health sulted in a proliferation of computer-assisted interventions (CAI) to and criminal justice outcomes;