Hub for Applied Research Translation Program (HART)
From 2020 to 2025, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (BU CPR) and the Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) at UMass Chan Medical School ran the Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (CeKTER) with a goal to improve how disability employment research could be translated into real-world services, policies, and practices that help people with disabilities achieve better employment outcomes.
Hub for Applied Research Translation Program (HART) is the repository that houses the research work and resources we created under grant #90DPEM004. These outputs are committed to advancing knowledge translation— making research more relevant, accessible, and useful for those who can put it into practice.
Knowledge translation (KT) refers to strategies that move research into practice by improving the relevance, reporting, accessibility, interpretation, and application of research results.
Meet the Team:

Marsha Ellison, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Principal Investigator

Colleen McKay, MA, CAGS
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Debbie Nicolellis, MS, CRC, CPRP
Training Director

Robin Tasca, BA
Communication Specialist