Publications

ACPAC Program Publications

  • 2020. Lundon K., Inrig T., Paton M., Shupak R., Kennedy C., McGlynn M., Barber C. 2020. Measuring Advanced/Extended Practice Roles in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Care in Canada. ACR Open Rheumatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr2.11129. Download PDF Here
  • 2019. Passalent L., Hawke C., Lawson D. O., Omar, A., Alnaqbi, K. A., Wallis, D., Steinhart, H., Silverberg M., Wolman, S., Derzko-Dzulynsky, L., Haroon, N., Inman, R.D. 2019. Advancing Early Identification of Axial Spondyloarthritis: An Interobserver Comparison of Extended Role Practitioners and Rheumatologists. Journal of Rheumatology. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.180787.
  • 2019. Ahluwalia, V., Larsen, T., Kennedy, C., Inrig, T., Lundon, K. 2019. An advanced clinician practitioner in arthritis care can improve access to rheumatology care in community-based practice. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Volume 12, https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S183397.
  • 2018. Lundon, K., and Shupak, R. 2018. A Successful Standardized Academic Interprofessional Post-licensure Education Program Exists to Train MSK Professionals to Become Advanced Practitioners in Arthritis Care: Lessons Learned from the ACPAC Program. Arthritis Care & Research, Letter to the Editor, In press. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23700.
  • 2018. Caldana, L. and Lundon, K. 2018. An ACPAC Program Trained Physiotherapy Practitioner and Orthopaedic Surgeon Share Care in an Interprofessional Orthopaedic Private Practice. OPA Today Autumn 2018, pp.8-11. http://acpacprogram.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OPA-Today-November-2018-Ortho-PT-ACPAC.pdf.
  • 2018. Lundon, K., Shupak, R., and Pullan, A. 2018. Measuring the ACPAC Program Trained Extended Role Practitioner (ERP) Workforce in Canada: A Profile of Practice Settings, Roles and Participation in Models of Arthritis Care in Canada. The Journal of Rheumatology July 2018, 45 (7) 964-1069, https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.180300.
  • 2018. Lundon, K., Ahluwalia, V., and Shupak, R. 2018. Extended-Role Practitioners Improve Access to Care for Ontarians. CRAJ. Volume 28 (1), pp. 13-14.
  • 2018. Bignell, K., Bender, C., Lichtenstein, A., McArthur, B., Musselman, K., Kay, T., and Farrer, C. 2018. Improving access in rheumatology: Evaluating the validity of a paper triage process involving an advanced practice physiotherapist through a retrospective chart review. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2018.1482978.
  • 2017. Warmington, K., Flewelling, C., Kennedy, C., Shupak, R., Papachristos, A., Jones, C., Linton, D., Beaton, D., and Lineker, S. Telemedicine delivery of patient education in remote Ontario communities: feasibility of an Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC)-led inflammatory arthritis education program. Open Access Rheumatology. Vol. 9, pp. 11-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/OARRR.S122015
  • 2017. Kennedy, C., Warmington, K., Flewelling, C., Shupak, R., Papachristos, A., Jones, C., Linton, D., Beaton, D., Lineker, S. and Hogg-Johnson, S. 2017. A Prospective Comparison of Telemedicine Versus In-Person Delivery of an Interprofessional Education Program for Adults with Inflammatory Arthritis. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Vol. 23 (2) 197-206. DOI: 10.1177/1357633X16635342
  • 2016. Barber, C., Lundon, K., Shupak, R., and Marshall, R. 2016. So We Stood Up and Got Counted…Now What? CRAJ 26(3): 7-7A.
  • 2016. Farrer, C., Abraham, L., Jerome, D., Hochman, J., Gakhal, N. 2016. Triage of Rheumatology Referral Facilitates Wait Time Benchmarks. The Journal of Rheumatology Nov 2016, 43(11) 2064-2067, DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.151235.
  • 2016. Magee, S., Heath, N., MacLeod, A., Lundon, K. – Models of Arthritis Care Using Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) Trained Therapists in Thunder Bay and the North West LHIN September, 2016- Read the article from the Ontario Physiotherapy Association’s Summer Issue of Physiotherapy Today
  • 2016. Soever, L., McGlynn, M. 2016. A Novel Initiative at University Health Network: Extended Role Physiotherapists in an Outpatient Orthogeriatric Setting – Read the article from the Ontario Physiotherapy Association’s Summer Issue of Physiotherapy Today
  • 2015. Warmington, K., Kennedy, C., Lundon, K., Soever, L., Brooks, S., Passalent, L., Shupak, R., Schneider, R. 2015. The Patient Perspective: Arthritis care provided by Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) Program trained clinicians. Open Access Rheumatology: Research and Reviews 2015(7):45–53
  • 2015. Lundon, K., Shupak, R., Canzian, S., Ziesmann, E. Schneider, R. 2015. Don’t Let Up: Implementing and Sustaining Change in a New Post-Licensure Education Model for Developing Extended Role Practitioners involved in Arthritis Care. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2015(8):389–395
  • 2014. Gillis, K., Augruso, A., Coe, T., O’Neill, A., Radford, L., Gibson, B.E., O’Callaghan, L., Soever, L. 2014 Physiotherapy Extended-Role Practitioner for Individuals with Hip and Knee Arthritis: Patient Perspectives of a Rural/Urban Partnership. Physiotherapy Canada 66(1);25-32.
  • 2014. Whitney-Mahoney, K., Marcuz, J. March is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month – Physiotherapy Today, Winter Issue #143, 2014 Read the full story from The Ontario Physiotherapy Association
  • 2013. Passalent, L., Kennedy, C., Lundon, K., Rozmovits, L., Sinclair, L., Soever, L., Schneider, R., Brooks, S., Warmington, K., Shupak, R. 2013. System integration and clinical utilization of the Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) program-trained extended role practitioners in Ontario: a 2-year system-level evaluation. Healthcare Policy 8(4):56-70.
  • 2013. Lundon, K., Kennedy, C., Rozmovits, L., Sinclair, L., Soever, L., Schneider, R., Brooks, S., Passalent, L., Warmington, K., Shupak, R. 2013. Evaluation of Perceived Collaborative Behaviour Amongst Stakeholders and Clinicians of a Continuing Education Programme in Arthritis Care. Journal of Interprofessional Care 27(5): 401-407.
  • 2011. Kennedy, C., Beaton, D., Warmington, K., Shupak, R., Jones, C. and Hogg-Johnson, S. 2011. Prescription for Education: Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of a Successful Interprofessional Education Program for Adults with Inflammatory Arthritis. The Journal of Rheumatology. Vol. 38 (10): pp. 2247-2257, https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.101307
  • 2011. Lineker, S., Lundon, K., Shupak, R., Schneider, R., MacKay, C, and Varatharasan, N. 2011. Arthritis Extended-Role Practitioners: Impact on Community Practice (An Exploratory Study). Physiotherapy Canada 63(4):434-442.
  • 2011. Lundon, K., R. Shupak, R. Schneider and J. McIlroy. 2011. Development and Early Evaluation of an Inter-professional Post-licensure Education Programme for Extended Practice Roles in Arthritis Care. Physiotherapy Canada 63(1):94-103.
  • 2011. Warmington, K., L. Passalent, C. Kennedy, K. Lundon, S. Brooks, and R. Shupak. December 2011. “The Early Impact of Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) program-trained Extended Role Practitioners (ERP) on the Ontario Healthcare System: A System Level Evaluation.” A Report for: The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario. Available at:  http://acpacprogram.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2011-EXEC-SUMM_ACPAC-MOH-REPORT_copyright.pdf
  • 2010. Shupak, R., Schneider, R., Lundon, K. 2010. Advanced Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) Program: An Update. CRAJ 19(4):16-17.
  • 2009. Lundon, K., Shupak, R., S. Reeves, R. Schneider, J. McIlroy. 2009. The Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) Program as A Model for Transfer of Knowledge and Skills and Attitudes: Moving From an Interprofessional Arthritis Education Program to Interprofessional Arthritis Care. Journal of Interprofessional Care 1-3.
  • 2008. Lundon, K., Shupak, R., Sunstrum-Mann, L., Galet, D., and Schneider, R. 2008. Leading Change in the Transformation of Arthritis Care through Development of an Interprofessional Academic Clinical Education Training Model in an Academic Healthcare Facility. Healthcare Quarterly 11(3):59-65.
  • 2007. Shupak, R., Lundon, K. 2007. St. Michael’s Hospital: The Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care Program. CRAJ 17(4): 16-17.