We are the Pediatric Emergency: Advancing Knowledge (PEAK) Research Team. We create research to inform better care for ill and injured children in the pediatric emergency department. Within the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta and in conjunction with the Stollery Children's Hospital Emergency Department, we find ways to improve the experiences of families through knowledge creation, knowledge synthesis, knowledge translation and quality improvement initiatives. 

Studies have found that it usually takes 17 years for research findings to be implemented into practice, when using traditional approaches of disseminating knowledge. In other words, it takes the lifetime of a child to see care practices change based on proven evidence. The PEAK Research Team aims to shorten this lag in knowledge translation by having a collaborative team of principal investigators, knowledge mobilization specialists, a quality improvement team, research coordinators/nurses/assistants, volunteers and people with lived experiences.