Executive Director, Performance Management and Evaluation, Alberta Innovates
Kathryn is the Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation at Alberta Innovates, a publicly‐funded provincial health research and innovation organization. She is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), a co‐founder of the International School on Research Impact Assessment, and Director of the School when it was hosted in Banff in 2014.
She has over 25 years of strategic evaluation experience in health care and health research and innovation. Her expertise is in developing performance management, evaluation, impact strategies, and implementing assessment frameworks for complex systems and organizations. She successfully implemented the CAHS (2009) health research impact framework and was instrumental in its application nationally and internationally. Kathryn is a social scientist, bridge builder and advisor on numerous expert committees that focus on the assessment of research and innovation.
