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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2017
Journal Article
Safer Prescribing and Care for the Elderly (SPACE): feasibility of audit and feedback plus practice mail-out to patients with high-risk prescribing
Wallis, Katharine and Tuckey, Rebecca (2017). Safer Prescribing and Care for the Elderly (SPACE): feasibility of audit and feedback plus practice mail-out to patients with high-risk prescribing. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9 (2), 145-152. doi: 10.1071/hc17018
2017
Journal Article
Epidemiology of patient harms in New Zealand: protocol of a general practice records review study
Dovey, Susan M., Leitch, Sharon, Wallis, Katharine A., Eggleton, Kyle S., Cunningham, Wayne K., Williamson, Martyn I., Lillis, Steven, McMenamin, Andrew W., Tilyard, Murray W., Reith, David M., Samaranayaka, Ari and Hall, Jason E. (2017). Epidemiology of patient harms in New Zealand: protocol of a general practice records review study. JMIR Research Protocols, 6 (1) e10, e10. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6696
2017
Journal Article
No-fault, no difference: no-fault compensation for medical injury and healthcare ethics and practice
Wallis, Katharine A. (2017). No-fault, no difference: no-fault compensation for medical injury and healthcare ethics and practice. British Journal of General Practice, 67 (654), 38-39. doi: 10.3399/bjgp17x688777
2017
Conference Publication
Feasibility of a multifaceted intervention (SPACE) to support safer prescribing in primary care
Wallis, K. A. (2017). Feasibility of a multifaceted intervention (SPACE) to support safer prescribing in primary care. In: North American Primary Care Research Group, Montreal, QC, Canada, (). 14-18 November 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
GP e-records review research: is confidentiality a con?
Wallis, K. A. (2017). GP e-records review research: is confidentiality a con?. In: NZ Bioethics, Dunedin, New Zealand, (). 28 January 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Feasibility of a multifaceted intervention to improve the safety of prescribing in general practice (SPACE feasibility)
Wallis, K. A. (2017). Feasibility of a multifaceted intervention to improve the safety of prescribing in general practice (SPACE feasibility). In: WONCA, Prague, Czech Republic, (). 22 June 2017.
2016
Journal Article
Outcomes and Impact of Training and Development in Health Management and Leadership in Relation to Competence in Role: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Protocol
Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga, North, Nicola, Wallis, Katharine Ann, Liang, Zhanming and Dunham, Annette (2016). Outcomes and Impact of Training and Development in Health Management and Leadership in Relation to Competence in Role: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Protocol. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 5 (12), 715-720. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.138
2016
Journal Article
Master of Primary Health Care degree: who wants it and why?
Andrews, Abby, Wallis, Katharine A. and Goodyear-Smith, Felicity (2016). Master of Primary Health Care degree: who wants it and why?. Journal of Primary Health Care, 8 (2), 106-114. doi: 10.1071/HC15026
2016
Conference Publication
The ethics of sharing: What concerns under pin practitioner decisions about what to document in shared electronic records and how should they be resolved?
Cairns, I., Jonas, M. and Wallis, K. A. (2016). The ethics of sharing: What concerns under pin practitioner decisions about what to document in shared electronic records and how should they be resolved?. In: Privacy Research Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, (). 13 December 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Patient harms in New Zealand primary care: Records review study protocol
Wallis, K. A. and Dovey, S. (2016). Patient harms in New Zealand primary care: Records review study protocol. In: Australasian Association of Academic Primary Care, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (). 15-18 November 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Swimming against the tide: barriers and enablers to deprescribing in everyday practice
Wallis, K. A. (2016). Swimming against the tide: barriers and enablers to deprescribing in everyday practice. In: North American Primary Care Research Group, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (). 15-18 November 2016.
2015
Journal Article
Learning from no-fault treatment injury claims to improve the safety of older patients
Wallis, Katharine Ann (2015). Learning from no-fault treatment injury claims to improve the safety of older patients. Annals of Family Medicine, 13 (5), 472-474. doi: 10.1370/afm.1810
2015
Journal Article
No medicine is sometimes the best medicine
Wallis, Katharine Ann (2015). No medicine is sometimes the best medicine. BMJ Case Reports, 2015 (may14 1) 207152, bcr2014207152-bcr2014207152. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207152
2015
Journal Article
Ethics: Ageing is not for the faint-hearted: are we making it worse? Polypharmacy-related harm in the elderly
Wallis, Katharine (2015). Ethics: Ageing is not for the faint-hearted: are we making it worse? Polypharmacy-related harm in the elderly. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7 (2), 167-169. doi: 10.1071/hc15167
2015
Journal Article
Back to Back: General practitioners should allow use of anonymised patient records for research: No
Wallis, Katharine (2015). Back to Back: General practitioners should allow use of anonymised patient records for research: No. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7 (3), 253-255. doi: 10.1071/hc15253
2014
Journal Article
Herpes zoster: when do patients present and who gets antiviral treatment?
Wallis, Katharine, Hood, Lynley and Rao, Kavita (2014). Herpes zoster: when do patients present and who gets antiviral treatment?. Journal of Primary Health Care, 6 (2), 108-113. doi: 10.1071/hc14108
2014
Journal Article
Ethics: Regular practice review: promised joy or naught but grief and pain?
Wallis, Katharine (2014). Ethics: Regular practice review: promised joy or naught but grief and pain?. Journal of Primary Health Care, 6 (2), 165-168. doi: 10.1071/hc14165
2013
Journal Article
Global research priorities to better understand the burden of iatrogenic harm in primary care: an international delphi exercise
Cresswell, Kathrin M., Panesar, Sukhmeet S., Salvilla, Sarah A., Carson-Stevens, Andrew, Larizgoitia, Itziar, Donaldson, Liam J., Bates, David, Sheikh, Aziz, Aibar, Carlos, Al-Bulushi, Hamad, Al-Mudaf, Buthaina, Aljadhey, Hisham, Amin, Fawzi, Avery, Anthony, Barker, Pierre, Brami, Jean, Chikobvu, Perpetual, Esmail, Aneez, Hickner, John, Houston, Neil, Khoja, Tawfik, Langelaan, Maaike, Letaief, Mondher, Liu, Chaojie, Madhok, Rajan, Makeham, Meredith, Michel, Philippe, Neyaz, Yakoub, Herault, Ludovic Reveiz ... on behalf of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Safer Primary Care Expert Working Group (2013). Global research priorities to better understand the burden of iatrogenic harm in primary care: an international delphi exercise. PLoS Medicine, 10 (11) e1001554, e1001554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001554
2013
Journal Article
Professional accountability of doctors in New Zealand
Wallis, Katharine (2013). Professional accountability of doctors in New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 5 (2), 165-169. doi: 10.1071/HC13165
2013
Journal Article
New Zealand's 2005 'no-fault' compensation reforms and medical professional accountability for harm
Wallis, Katharine (2013). New Zealand's 2005 'no-fault' compensation reforms and medical professional accountability for harm. New Zealand Medical Journal, 126 (1371), 33-44.
Funding
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Supervision
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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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