Keri West

MSW, RSW keri.west@utoronto.ca (416) 569-5283 256 Bloor St. W.•Toronto, ON • M5S1V4

EDUCATION

Present

Conferred 2015

Conferred2005

PhD Candidate

Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto

Master of Social Work

Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto

Honours Bachelor of Arts, English

University of Toronto

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Adverse childhood experiences and health across the life course Culturally responsive healthcare Epistemic injustice Simulation-based learning

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2016–Present Doctoral Candidate, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University ofToronto • Examining the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and inflammation in later life using data from the

Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging • Developed an integrated conceptual model of health and development in the context of early adverse exposures

2020 –Present

2016 –Present Research Associate, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto • Research and knowledge translation for COVID-19-related mental health projects, supported by a grant from the Canadian

Institutes for Health Research (Principal Investigator: Abi

Sriharan, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation,

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto) • Completed a rapid meta review for the Canadian Nurses

Association to inform urgent policy discussions with provincial and federal governments • Conducted a scoping review on the mental health impacts of pandemics on female frontline staff • Working with key stakeholders to ensure the rapid mobilization of the best available evidence to support the mental health needs of the healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic Research Assistant, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto • Instrumental leadership role in the development of a competency framework and a simulation-based teaching intervention for communicating research evidence in therapeutic relationships (Project leader: Dr. Keith Adamson) • A pilot study on the online intervention is launching in Fall 2020 • Project manager for the development of two Massive Online

Open Courses (Project leader: Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson; supported by the Larry Enkin Foundation) • Coordinate all aspects of this complex, large-scale project, including overseeing the core team, planning and monitoring budgets, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, managing the competitive procurement process, and ensuring deliverables meet project requirements / timelines and continuing education accreditation standards for major social worker and social service worker regulatory bodies globally • Contributed to the development research protocols, ethics submissions, and funding proposals for a range of quantitative, qualitative,and mixed methods projects; assisted with data collection, analysis, writing and preparation of manuscripts for publication

TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE

2020–Present Faculty-Field Liaison, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University

2020 2019 2013 of Toronto • Serve as the primary link between the social work faculty and field placements • Work with field instructors and students to resolve issues in the field • Monitor the educational field experience, and review and approve

2019 –Present

2018 –Present

learning contracts andevaluations for all assigned students Instructor, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto • Designed and delivered a 4-week professional development workshop on hospital discharge planning Research Assistant, Factor-Inwentash Facultyof Social Work, University of Toronto • Co-developed a competency framework and simulation-based teaching intervention for communicating research evidence in therapeutic relationships which was rolled out across all sections of the core research course for first-year Master of Social Work students at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in the 20192020 academic year (~250 students) • Assisted in training the teaching team to deploy the intervention, which represented a significant shift from the traditional pedagogical model • Adapted the intervention for online learning • Taught the competency framework in two sections of the course and assisted with grading the simulation assignment Facilitator, Practice Fridays, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto • Facilitate simulation-based learning activities to develop foundational competencies in Master of Social Work students • Deployed innovative 7-and 10-week virtual simulation-based practice seminars for Master of Social Work students in response to the COVID-19 disruption to field education Teaching Apprentice (SWK4510 Research for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice & SWK4513 Knowledge Building in Social Work), Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto • Assisted in all aspects ofcourse delivery, including preparing course syllabi, delivering lectures, consulting with students on major projects, and grading assignments Teaching Assistant (HAD 5727H Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: The Art and Science of Making Research Relevant and Increasing Utilization), Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto • Prepared and delivered course content, consulted with students on major projects, and graded assignments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017 –2018 Government Relations Strategist, SNAP Implementation & Research Team,

2011 Child Development Institute • Recruited to advance an ambitious national expansion of the SNAP (Stop Now and Plan) cognitive behavioural program • Made a substantial contribution to the achievement of 136% of the targeted goal ofdelivering SNAP to 100 underserved Canadian communities by 2022 • Conducted a scan of the regional policy landscape, identified governmental and non-governmental stakeholders and funding opportunities, and assisted in the creation of targeted advocacy toolkits forprovincial and federal governments

2015 –2016

2011 –2014 Social Worker, Surgical & Supportive Cardiology Programs, North York General Hospital

Knowledge Broker / Research Methods Specialist, Provincial System Support Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health • Convened and facilitated an advisory panel of persons with lived experience of mental health and substance use issues and family members to support Health Canada’s Drug Treatment Funding

Program (DTFP) Ontario Systems Projects • Led the development of twoannual calls for expressions of interest for provincial mental health and addictions Communities of Interest • Provided knowledge translation support to a portfolio of DTFP

Ontario Systems Projects Communications Associate, Provincial System Support Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health • Developed a communications strategy for Health Canada’s Drug

Treatment Funding Program Ontario Systems Projects • Created a database of data sources available to mental health and addictions researchers for the Northern Ontario Research and Data

Summit in order to help address the needs of underserved and marginalized populations impacted by health equity issues in

Northern Ontario

2008–2011 Communications Coordinator and Marketing Analyst, Courtyard Group Healthcare Consulting • Served as Production Editor for three regional thought leadership publications with collective distribution to over 5000 health systems stakeholders in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom

2007–2008 Freelance Consultant, Government Relations and Communications • Provided strategic communications, government relations, and project management services to international clients in diverse industries

SOCIAL WORK CLINICAL INTERNSHIPS

2014 –2015

2014

2014 Orthopaedic Surgery, Sarcoma & Fracture Teams, Mount Sinai Hospital Nephrology, Ophthalmology & Plastic Surgery Programs, The Hospital for Sick Children

Sheena’s Place

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Fuller-Thomson, E., Lung, Y., West, K., Keyes, C., & Baiden, P. (2020). Suboptimal baseline mental health associated with 4-month premature all-cause mortality: Lessons learned from 18 years of follow-up of the Canadian National Population Health Survey. [ACCEPTED]

White, B. A., West, K. J., & Fuller-Thomson, E. (2020).Is exposure to family member incarceration during childhood linked to diabetes in adulthood? Findings from a population-based study. SAGE Open Medicine, 8, 1-12.

Fuller-Thomson, E., West, K. J., & Baiden, P. (2019). The tide does turn: Predictors of remission from suicidal ideation and attempt among Canadians who previously attempted suicide. Psychiatry Research, 274, 313-321.

Fuller-Thomson, E., & West, K. J. (2019). Flourishing despite a cancer diagnosis: Factors associated with complete mental health ina nationally representativesample of cancer patients aged 50 years and older. Aging & Mental Health, 23(9), 1263-1274.

West, K. J., Wrobel, B., Pallotta, S., & Coatsworth, A. (2018). Bearing witness: Exploring the end-oflife needs of homeless persons andbarriers to appropriate care. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying. [Epub ahead of print]

Fuller-Thomson, E., West, K., Sulman, J., & Baird, S. (2015). Childhood maltreatment is associated with ulcerative colitis but not Crohn’s disease: Findings from a population-based study. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 21(11), 2640-2648.

REPORTS

West, K. J. & Sriharan, A. (2020). The mental health impacts of pandemics on nurses: A rapid narrative meta-review.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

West, K. J., Sriharan, A., Almost, J., & Hamza, A. The mental health impacts of pandemics on nurses: A rapid review. [UNDER REVIEW]

West, K. J. & Sriharan, A. The mental health impacts of pandemics on nurses: A rapid narrative meta-review. [UNDER REVIEW]

Kourgiantakis, T., Hu, R., Ramsundarsingh, S., Lung, Y., & West, K. J. Virtual Practice Fridays: Responding to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in field and classroom. [UNDER REVIEW]

West, K. J. & Greenblatt, A. Community and collective violence and obesogenic health behaviours across thelife course: A scoping review.

West, K. J., Lee, E., & Cameron, R. Epistemic injustice and resistance in Indigenous dementia care.

Adamson, K., & West, K. J. Communicating research evidence in therapeutic relationships: A competency framework for socialwork.

West, K. J., & Adamson, K. A simulation-based teaching intervention to develop competency in communicating research evidence in therapeutic relationships.

PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, AND POSTERS

‘It Takes A Village’ International Conference, Oslo, Norway, “Toward culturally-responsive dementia care for Indigenous peoples” (May 2019) National Institute for the Care of the Elderly & Institute for Life Course and Aging, World Hospice Day panel discussion on end-of-life care for the homeless and marginallyhoused [INVITED SPEAKER] (November 2018)

Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, 2018 Decolonizing Conference. “Epistemic injustice and resistance in Indigenous dementia care” (November 2018) Gerontological Society of America 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting. “Palliative carefor the homeless: A scoping review” (November 2018) Social Work, Education and Social Development Conference, “De-constructing clienthoodin health and mental health: Epistemic injustice, epistemic resistance and social work practiceimplications” (July 2018)

46th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG). “Flourishing despite a cancer diagnosis: Findings from a nationally representative study” (October 2017)

21st International Association of Gerontology andGeriatrics (IAGG) World Congress. “Flourishing despite a cancer diagnosis: Findings from a nationally representative study” (July 2017) National Institute for the Care of the Elderly, Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange. “What is known about palliative care for the homeless?” (May 2015) Hospital for Sick Children (Internal), Ophthalmology Grand Rounds. “Bouncers, brokers, andglue: The role of social work at SickKids” (July 2014)

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Issues of Substance National Conference. “Supporting knowledge exchange for Health Canada’s Drug Treatment Funding Program” (November 2013) National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. “Scientist Knowledge Translation Training (SKTT): Knowledge Translation Planning TemplateTM” (November 2012) Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Internal), Systems Improvement through Service Collaboratives, Service User Expert Panel Orientation. “The role of knowledge exchange in supporting the Service Collaboratives” (November 2012) Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Local Health Integration Networks Mental Health and Addictions Leads Table. “Knowledge exchange and the Evidence Exchange Network” (January 2012)

Health Research Transfer Network of Alberta, Reimagining Health throughKT Annual Conference. “How to build a provincial knowledge exchange network” (October 2011)

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2017,2018, 2019, 2020 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

2018

2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship University of Toronto PhD Fellowship School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant

Wilfred George Scott Fellowship in Gerontology

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2019

2019

2018

2015

2015

2015

2015

2014 G. Roman, University of Cambridge, MPlus Wizard

Enablytics • Introductory Structural Equation Modeling • Advanced Structural Equation Modeling • Multilevel Modeling • Growth Modeling Factor-InwentashFaculty of Social Work, Simulation-Based Learning in Social Work Education

Cambridge University, Structural Equation Modeling in MPlus

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network (PAIL), Pregnancy and Infant Loss Certificate University of Toronto, Interprofessional Health Education Curriculum Certificate & Interprofessional Education Facilitator Program

University of Toronto, Global Health Education Initiative: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

University of Toronto, Seniors Outreach Program

Hospital for Sick Children, Family Therapy Seminar

2012

2012 Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto, Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate

Kensington Hospice / Ontario Hospice Association, Hospice Palliative Care Training Certificate

COMMITTEES & SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Committees

2019, 2020 2019, 2020 2019, 2020 2020 FIFSW PhD Studies Committee FIFSW PhD ActivitiesCommittee FIFSW Faculty Council FIFSW Communications Committee

Scholarly Reviews

Medical Care Aging and Mental Health American Journal of Preventive Medicine Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership

REGISTRATIONS

Registered Social Worker (RSW) in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) Registered member of the Ontario Association of SocialWorkers (OASW)

Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto 246 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V4

416-978-6314 www.socialwork.utoronto.ca