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Overview
Background
Professor Katharine Wallis MBChB, PhD, MBHL, Dip Obst, FRNZCGP, FACRRM, GAICD is Mayne Professor and Head, Mayne Academy of General Practice and Head, General Practice Clinical Unit at the University of Queensland Medical School and lead of the RELEASE program of research. Professor Wallis is a clinically active general practitioner and Fellow of both the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
Professor Wallis’s research centres around safer use of medicines in general practice, in particular developing and evaluating interventions designed to support people to stop antidepressants safely. Current projects include the RELEASE (REdressing Long-tErm Antidepressant uSE) effectiveness-implementation trial in general practice funded by a Medical Research Future Fund 2020 Clinician Researchers: Applied Research in Health grant and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.
Professor Wallis also leads a project funded by the Motor Accident Insurance Commission and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Foundation in the Princess Alexandra Hospital Occupational Therapy Driving Assessment & Rehabilitation Service developing and testing the 3-Domains screening toolkit for older driver medical assessment in general practice.
Professor Wallis is the Queensland Academic Lead for the PARTNER network, a national network of rural and remote practices established to support rural participation in clinical trials funded by the Medical Research Future Fund as part of the Australian Teletrials program, and is Founding Director of the UQGP Research practice-based research network.
Professor Wallis is a member of the Oxford International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme, University of Oxford.
Availability
- Professor Katharine Wallis is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, University of Otago
- Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics, University of Otago
- Masters (Coursework) of Bioethics, University of Otago
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Otago
Research interests
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Safer prescribing in general practice
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Decreasing unnecessary and potentially harmful long-term use of antidepressants to improve patient outcomes
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Older driver medical assessment in general practice
Works
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2021
Journal Article
Cardiovascular disease risk prediction in older people: A qualitative study
Taylor, Denise Ann, Wallis, Katharine Ann, Feki, Sione, Moala, Sione Sengili, Latu, Manusiu, Fanueli, Elizabeth Fono, Saravanakumar, Padmapriya and Wells, Susan (2021). Cardiovascular disease risk prediction in older people: A qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 71 (711), E772-E779. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2020.1038
2021
Journal Article
Medication-related harm in New Zealand general practice: a retrospective records review
Leitch, Sharon, Dovey, Susan M., Cunningham, Wayne K., Smith, Alesha J., Zeng, Jiaxu, Reith, David M., Wallis, Katharine A., Eggleton, Kyle S., McMenamin, Andrew W., Williamson, Martyn I. and Lillis, Steven (2021). Medication-related harm in New Zealand general practice: a retrospective records review. British Journal of General Practice, 71 (709), E626-E633. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2020.1126
2021
Journal Article
Epidemiology of healthcare harm in New Zealand general practice: a retrospective records review study
Leitch, Sharon, Dovey, Susan, Cunningham, Wayne, Wallis, Katharine, Eggleton, Kyle, Lillis, Steven, McMenamin, Andrew, Williamson, Martyn, Reith, David, Samaranayaka, Ariyapala and Tilyard, Murray (2021). Epidemiology of healthcare harm in New Zealand general practice: a retrospective records review study. BMJ Open, 11 (7) e048316, e048316. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048316
2021
Journal Article
Antidepressant prescribing in general practice
Wallis, Katharine A, Donald, Maria and Moncrieff, Joanna (2021). Antidepressant prescribing in general practice. Australian Journal of General Practice, 50 (12), 954-956. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-02-21-5828
2020
Journal Article
Long-term follow up of older people on diabetes medications: observational study using linked health databases
Wallis, Katharine A., Wells, Susan, Selak, Vanessa and Poppe, Katrina (2020). Long-term follow up of older people on diabetes medications: observational study using linked health databases. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 26 (4), 306-312. doi: 10.1071/py19246
2020
Journal Article
Assessing fitness to drive in older people: the need for an evidence‐based toolkit in general practice
Wallis, Katharine A., Matthews, James and Spurling, Geoffrey K. (2020). Assessing fitness to drive in older people: the need for an evidence‐based toolkit in general practice. Medical Journal of Australia, 212 (9) mja2.50588, 396-398.e1. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50588
2020
Journal Article
The Case for Research-Informed Immigrant Health Policies Within Health Care Systems
Montoya-Williams, Diana, Fuentes-Afflick, Elena and Wallis, Kate (2020). The Case for Research-Informed Immigrant Health Policies Within Health Care Systems. JAMA Network Open, 3 (4). doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3022
2020
Journal Article
Bad gene hunting-sudden unexplained death and familial long QT syndrome
Wallis, Katharine A (2020). Bad gene hunting-sudden unexplained death and familial long QT syndrome. JAMA Cardiology, 5 (4), 375-376. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.0039
2020
Conference Publication
General practitioner registrar management of herpes zoster: secondary analysis of ReCEnT data
Wallis, Katharine, van Driel, Mieke, Magin, Parker, Tapley, Amanda, Fielding, Alison, Tranter, Isaac and Davey, Andrew (2020). General practitioner registrar management of herpes zoster: secondary analysis of ReCEnT data. Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Annual Research Conference, Online, 14–15 August 2020. Clayton, VIC, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. doi: 10.1071/PYv26n4abs
2020
Journal Article
Welcome to The Lucky Country: the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners deters overseas-trained academic general practitioners
Wallis, Katharine A. (2020). Welcome to The Lucky Country: the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners deters overseas-trained academic general practitioners. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 782-783. doi: 10.1071/ah19276
2020
Conference Publication
Writing for publication
Wallis, Katharine (2020). Writing for publication. Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Annual Research Conference, Online, 14–15 August 2020. Clayton, VIC, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. doi: 10.1071/PYv26n4abs
2019
Journal Article
Gonorrhoea: the pain and shame of notification
Wallis, Katharine A. and Saxton, Peter J. (2019). Gonorrhoea: the pain and shame of notification. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11 (3), 195-206. doi: 10.1071/hc19038
2019
Journal Article
Patient Characteristics and General Practitioners’ Advice to Stop Statins in Oldest-Old Patients: a Survey Study Across 30 Countries
van der Ploeg, Milly A., Streit, Sven, Achterberg, Wilco P., Beers, Erna, Bohnen, Arthur M., Burman, Robert A., Collins, Claire, Franco, Fabio G., Gerasimovska-Kitanovska, Biljana, Gintere, Sandra, Gomez Bravo, Raquel, Hoffmann, Kathryn, Iftode, Claudia, Peštić, Sanda Kreitmayer, Koskela, Tuomas H., Kurpas, Donata, Maisonneuve, Hubert, Mallen, Christan D., Merlo, Christoph, Mueller, Yolanda, Muth, Christiane, Petrazzuoli, Ferdinando, Rodondi, Nicolas, Rosemann, Thomas, Sattler, Martin, Schermer, Tjard, Šter, Marija Petek, Švadlenková, Zuzana, Tatsioni, Athina ... Poortvliet, Rosalinde K. E. (2019). Patient Characteristics and General Practitioners’ Advice to Stop Statins in Oldest-Old Patients: a Survey Study Across 30 Countries. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34 (9), 1751-1757. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4795-x
2019
Journal Article
Implications of New Zealand’s primary health care policies for management and leadership
Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga, North, Nicola, Wallis, Katharine Ann and Dunham, Annette (2019). Implications of New Zealand’s primary health care policies for management and leadership. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health Management, 14 (2) i255, 40-48. doi: 10.24083/apjhm.v14i2.255
2019
Journal Article
Impact of training and professional development on health management and leadership competence: a mixed methods systematic review
Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga, North, Nicola Henri, Dunham, Annette and Wallis, Katharine Ann (2019). Impact of training and professional development on health management and leadership competence: a mixed methods systematic review. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 33 (4), 354-379. doi: 10.1108/JHOM-11-2018-0338
2019
Journal Article
Response
Wallis, Katharine and Ragupathy, Rajan (2019). Response. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11 (1), 14-15. doi: 10.1071/HC19010
2019
Journal Article
Doctors, drugs of dependence and discipline: a retrospective review of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand, 1997-2016
Wallis, Katharine A. and Middleton, Susie (2019). Doctors, drugs of dependence and discipline: a retrospective review of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand, 1997-2016. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132 (1488), 49-54.
2019
Conference Publication
Optimal HbA1c target for older people with diabetes
Wallis, K. A., Wells, S., Poppe, K., Selak, V. and Kerse, N. (2019). Optimal HbA1c target for older people with diabetes. In: North American Primary Care Research Group, Chicago, United States, (). 9-13 November 2019.
2019
Conference Publication
Safer Prescribing And Care for the Elderly (SPACE): a cluster randomised controlled trial in general practice
Wallis, K. A., Elley, C. R., Moyes, S., Hikaka, J., Lee, A. and Kerse, N. (2019). Safer Prescribing And Care for the Elderly (SPACE): a cluster randomised controlled trial in general practice. In: Australasian Association of Academic Primary Care, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (). 12-13 July 2019.
2019
Book Chapter
How to create an effective poster
Wallis, Katharine A. (2019). How to create an effective poster. How to Do Primary Care Research. (pp. 267-269) edited by Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Robert Mash. Boca Raton, Fl, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351014519-28
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
RELEASE: Redressing Long-term Antidepressant use in general practice: Implementation evaluation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Maria Donald, Dr Suzanne McDonald
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