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Ovid helps researchers, librarians, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information so that they can make critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.
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Ovid Synthesis is an evidence-based practice workflow solution that creates a culture of EBP and transforms research infrastructure.
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Beyond ROI: Demonstrating the True Value of Nursing

April 2026
Presented by: Dr. Lynn Gallagher-Ford, Dr. Carl A. Kirton, Dr. Jodie Pufundt, and Dr. Wendy Tuzik Micek

Explore how nurse-led EBP and QI initiatives create value through ROI. Learn to identify meaningful outcomes, communicate impact, and see how new technology streamlines improvement and supports nursing excellence.

*Lippincott Professional Development (LPD) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

LPD is also provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 11749, and LPD is an approved provider by the boards of nursing in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, and West Virginia (CE Broker #50-1223)

Practical, evidence-based guidance to support seamless and sustainable implementation in aged care

March 2026
Presented by: Dr. Alice Windle, Assoc. Prof Craig Lockwood, and Allan Finn

Join Craig Lockwood, Allan Finn, and speaker Dr. Alice Windle to explore practical considerations for implementing change and innovation in aged care.

Making the case for “so what” outcomes in EBP for real-world impact and ROI

October 2025
Presented by:

Bernadette (Bern) Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, EBP-C, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Co-founder & President, EBP Solutions
Lynn Gallagher-Ford, PhD, RN, EBP-C, DPFNAP, FAAN
Co-founder & CEO, EBP Solutions
David Troy
National Business Development Manager, Wolters Kluwer, Health Learning, Research & Practice

Watch EBP experts Drs. Bern Melnyk and Lynn Gallagher-Ford to learn how to identify "so what" outcomes that drive real-world impact and ROI. Gain practical strategies to measure what matters and demonstrate the value of nurse-led evidence-based initiatives.

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*Lippincott Professional Development (LPD) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

LPD is also provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 11749, and LPD is an approved provider by the boards of nursing in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, and West Virginia (CE Broker #50-1223)

Mastering multi-database searching with Ovid TermFinder

October 2025
Presented by: Allan Finn, Senior Customer Service Technical Specialist, Wolters Kluwer

This webinar demystifies multi-database searching using the Ovid® TermFinder tool. Learn how to effectively search MEDLINE® and EMBASE® together, leverage thesaurus features, and avoid common search pitfalls.

Nurse-led research in action: Perspectives of American Nurses Enterprise and Ovid Synthesis

September 2025
Presented by: Marcela Cámpoli, Una Hopkins, and Rachel Dicker

Explore strategies, success stories, and tools empowering nurses to drive evidence-based care, optimize outcomes, and elevate the profession.

Systematic review best practices and platform updates

September 2025
Presented by: Allan Finn

Join our webinar to unlock Ovid's full potential for systematic reviews: streamline database selection, optimize search strategies, and explore new features with expert tips, real-world examples and step-by-step guidance.

Unlock the power of AI: Transform your library discovery service and stay ahead

August 2025
Presented by: Jessica Ware Senior Customer Success Specialist, Wolters Kluwer

Join us for a dynamic session where we’ll share tips and best practices for using Ovid® Discovery AI effectively. More than just a search tool, it uses advanced artificial intelligence to understand the true intent behind user queries and content — delivering results that are meaningfully relevant, not just keyword matched.

Systematic review best practices and platform updates

September 2025
Presented by: Allan Finn

Join our webinar to unlock Ovid's full potential for systematic reviews: streamline database selection, optimize search strategies, and explore new features with expert tips, real-world examples and step-by-step guidance.

Step up with JBI PACES: A clinician's guide to quality improvement

July 2025
Presented by: Rosemary Kennedy and Lucylynn Lizarondo

Boost your quality improvement (QI) efforts with our engaging and practical webinar tailored for health professionals. This session provides a straightforward, clinician-friendly framework to help you plan and implement evidence-based QI initiatives with confidence.

OvidGO! Webinar Series: An Introduction to Ovid Skills Videos

June 2025
Presented by: Maurice Clementi and Rani Southern-Darbar

This 30-minute engaging session will introduce you to Ovid Skills Videos, designed to sharpen your approach to database use. Whether you are just starting out or you’re already an experienced user, you will leave the session equipped with practical techniques to significantly improve your research outcomes.

Enhancing research and efficiency on the Ovid platform

June 2025
Presented by: Kate Charron, David Troy, and Mauro Castillo

This webinar showcases advanced tools and updates on the Ovid Platform, including Ovid Synthesis, Ovid Discovery AI, and NEJM Complete Collection — plus expert tips to help users boost research efficiency and drive better outcomes.

Putting evidence to work: Practical tools for clinical change

June 2025
Presented by: Alexa McArthur; Robin Christian, DNP, FNP-C; and Michelle Palokas, DNP, RN, CPN

Watch the webinar to discover practical tools for implementing evidence-based change in clinical settings. Learn strategies from experts, real-world examples, and actionable insights to improve patient outcomes and drive quality improvement in your practice.

How journals transform clinical practice: A conversation with NEJM Group editors

April 2025
Presented by: Ewen Harrison, OBE, MB ChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, FRSE, FMedSci; Raja-Elie E. Abdulnour, MD; and Patrick McGinty

NEJM Group drives advancements in clinical practice by translating the latest research into actionable knowledge, improving patient outcomes. Join the editors to explore how we shape medical publishing to make a real impact where it matters most: at the bedside.

OvidGO! Webinar series: An introduction to focused searches

April 2025
Presented by: Michael Fanning and Rani Southern-Darbar

Join us for the first session in a dedicated webinar series focusing on bibliographic databases and evidence-based research techniques, useful for academic, medical and clinical librarians, researchers, information specialists, educators, and anyone who runs searches using Ovid®.

Driving sustainable innovation in EBP and QI: A deep dive with Stanford Medicine and WVU Health System

March 2025
Presented by: Lya M. Cartwright-Stroupe and Kristina K. Davis

Discover how Stanford Medicine and West Virginia University are revolutionizing EBP and QI through a centralized workflow solution. Watch this webinar to explore strategies, real-world case studies, and a demo of Ovid Synthesis, driving collaboration and measurable patient care improvements.

Introducing Ovid TermFinder for EMBASE

March 2025
Presented by: Allan Finn

Learn how TermFinder revolutionizes searches by mapping Emtree results, exploring Permuted Index data, and incorporating UMLS terms. Join our webinar to simplify your research process and maximize insights with EMBASE®.

Bridging the nutrition gap in medical education

January 2025
Presented by: Carol Durham and Rani Southern-Darbar

Discover how Ovid® NutriHealth is revolutionizing the discovery of vital nutrition information for medical professionals and researchers.

Empowering new nurses: Evidence-based clinical decision support

November 12, 2024
Presented by: Madeleine Whalen, MSN/MPH, RN, CEN, NPD-BC and Adam Cooper, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, EBP-C

In this JBI LIVE webinar, hosted by Wolters Kluwer Health and in partnership with Johns Hopkins Nursing and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), leaders in evidence-based practice will address the need for practical, evidence-based clinical decision support for new nurses. Participants will explore how integrating JBI resources into practice can enhance clinical decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and build professional confidence.

Discover the power of systematic reviews in healthcare

October 22, 2024
Presented by: Fabio Di Bello

Are you passionate about improving healthcare through evidence-based practices? This engaging and informative webinar is designed for researchers, librarians, healthcare professionals, and anyone eager to deepen their understanding of systematic reviews and their crucial role in healthcare. Learn how to leverage the Ovid® Evidence-Based Practice Suite, including the valuable Cochrane Library, to support your professional growth.

Getting Across the Quality Finish Line: An Ovid Synthesis Webinar

Recorded October 8, 2024
Presented by: David Nash, MD, MBA; David Bates, MD, MSc; and Evan Benjamin, MD

This webinar presents a framework to improve the adoption and implementation of patient safety initiatives. The presentation includes a live demonstration of Ovid® Synthesis, an innovative workflow solution that supports quality improvement initiatives and fosters a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and sustained innovation.

Building confidence and resilience in newly licensed nurses with technology-driven EBP and QI

September 26, 2024
Presented by: Audria Denker, DNP, RN, FAADN, ANEF; Stephanie DiRubbo, BS, MS; and Nicole Farnsworth, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CPN

In this expert panel, leaders from Galen College of Nursing and the University of Maryland’s Baltimore Washington Medical Center will share their strategies for addressing critical challenges of newly licensed nurses, residents, and educators. They will offer best practices for facilitating evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI), and research innovation in nursing education and clinical settings.

JBI Live: Enhance clinical leadership and governance by leveraging evidence-based solutions

August 21, 2024
Presented by: Lucy Lizarondo, PhD and Craig Lockwood, PhD

In this webinar, our speakers will challenge the status quo of quality improvement and evidence-based practices by demonstrating how collaborative models, methods, and mechanisms of action assist and facilitate project management, data collection, data analysis, reporting, and implementation planning with cross-sector relevance and applicability.

Tips and tricks with research tools on Ovid

August 15, 2024
Presented by: Allan Finn

This informative webinar is designed for healthcare professionals, academics, and researchers. Discover how to harness the power of Ovid®'s premier databases — Ovid MEDLINE®, PsycINFO®, and EMBASE® — using our newly revamped Ovid interface.

Real-world healthcare innovation: A webinar with NEJM Catalyst

June 20, 2024
Presented by: Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc; Namita Seth Mohta, MD; and Edward Prewitt, MPP

NEJM Catalyst Editors Thomas H. Lee, Namita Seth Mohta, and Edward Prewitt have a nuanced discussion of healthcare innovation and how to test and affirm its applicability in novel settings. They cover what real-world innovation looks like, how that work can be adopted and put to immediate use by researchers and organizational stakeholders, and why the NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery journal is the best source for reproducible innovations.

Ovid tools designed to drive your search experience!

June 19, 2024
Presented by: Maurice Clementi, Ovid Customer Success Team

Led by a veteran Ovid® trainer, this 45-minute webinar provides an overview of tools, available within the platform and to all users, designed to help your searching become more efficient and productive. The session is perfect for anyone who uses Ovid — researchers, librarians, faculty and educators, students, and healthcare practitioners — and includes simple, step-by-step instructions.

EBP, QI, and research innovation across academic medical centers and university campuses: An Ovid® Synthesis webinar

June 6, 2024
Presented by: Shea Polancich, PhD, RN; Peggy Kain; and Leslie W. Hayes, MD, LSSBB

The expert panel speaks to how they’ve solved these tough realities across the University of Alabama at Birmingham academic medical center and university campus with best practices for facilitating EBP, QI, and research innovation through three distinct workstreams: funding, launching, and sustaining innovation.

Ovid MEDLINE and Embase on Ovid: Comparing the content

May 15, 2024
Presented by: Charlotte Viken and Yvonne van de Vrede

The webinar includes information on the indexing process and the benefit of deep indexing on Embase, as well as practical examples.

JBI LIVE: Pioneering integration of implementation methodology in Doctorate of Nursing Programs

April 11, 2024
Presented by: Dr. Robin Christian; Dr. Michelle Palokas; moderated by Craig Lockwood

In this webinar, our speakers Robin and Michelle highlighted valuable strategies for universities offering DNPs that are seeking evidence-based approaches to improving student experiences and opportunities. This JBI LIVE free webinar is hosted by Wolters Kluwer Health and facilitated by Associate Professor Craig Lockwood, Director of Implementation Science at JBI.

The Role of AI in Medicine: Innovations and Insights

April 11, 2024
Presented by: Arjun (Raj) Manrai, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Watch our on-demand webinar for an eye-opening session hosted by Wolters Kluwer featuring Arjun “Raj” Manrai, Deputy Editor, NEJM AI. This session provided an opportunity to hear from an expert on the intersection of cutting-edge AI and the practice of medicine.

Driving EBP and QI transformation to improve outcomes: An Ovid Synthesis webinar

March 26, 2024
Presented by: Lya M. Cartwright-Stroupe, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC; NEA-BC, NPD-BC; Barbara Mayer, RN, PhD, CPHQ; and Rachel Dicker

Watch our speakers perform a live demo of how Ovid® Synthesis is used to inspire a spirit of inquiry, empower nurses, share results across hospitals, drive practice improvements through research/EBP/QI, and streamline the required reporting for stories to support Magnet® designation.

Explore new frontiers of research and EBP education in the era of AI: An Ovid Synthesis webinar

February 27, 2024
Presented by: Annie Rohan, PhD, RN, FAANP, FAAN and Jennie Chang De Gagne, PhD, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, ANEF, FAAN

During the webinar, the panel provided examples of how Ovid® Synthesis, a new innovative solution, can be used to provide the oversight and guidance for AACN Domain 4 to support a learning environment that promotes independent critical thinking and academic integrity as well as to support collaboration and communication.