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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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.
2012
Journal Article
'Woe is me!': New Zealand's non-punitive regulatory environment
Wallis, Katharine (2012). 'Woe is me!': New Zealand's non-punitive regulatory environment. Journal of Primary Health Care, 4 (1), 73-76. doi: 10.1071/HC12073
2011
Journal Article
Incident reporting in primary care: epidemiology or culture change?
Dovey, Susan M. and Wallis, Katharine A. (2011). Incident reporting in primary care: epidemiology or culture change?. BMJ Quality and Safety, 20 (12), 1001-1003. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000465
2011
Journal Article
No-fault compensation for treatment injury in New Zealand: identifying threats to patient safety in primary care
Wallis, Katharine and Dovey, Susan (2011). No-fault compensation for treatment injury in New Zealand: identifying threats to patient safety in primary care. BMJ Quality and Safety, 20 (7), 587-591. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.047696
2011
Journal Article
Assessing patient safety culture in New Zealand primary care: a pilot study using a modified Manchester Patient Safety Framework in Dunedin general practices
Wallis, Katharine and Dovey, Susan (2011). Assessing patient safety culture in New Zealand primary care: a pilot study using a modified Manchester Patient Safety Framework in Dunedin general practices. Journal of Primary Health Care, 3 (1), 35-40. doi: 10.1071/HC11035
2009
Journal Article
Ethics: Uncertainty, fear and whistling happy tunes
Wallis, Katharine (2009). Ethics: Uncertainty, fear and whistling happy tunes. Journal of Primary Health Care, 1 (1), 71-73. doi: 10.1071/hc09071
2008
Journal Article
Severe vitamin D deficiency presenting as hypocalcaemic seizures in a black infant at 45.5 degrees south: A case report
Wallis, Katharine (2008). Severe vitamin D deficiency presenting as hypocalcaemic seizures in a black infant at 45.5 degrees south: A case report. Cases Journal, 1 (1) 12. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-1-12
2008
Journal Article
Response [4]
Wallis, Katharine (2008). Response [4]. New Zealand Medical Journal, 121 (1268).
2008
Journal Article
Health information privacy: the patient perspective
Wallis, Katharine (2008). Health information privacy: the patient perspective. New Zealand Family Physician, 35 (3), 171-174.
2007
Journal Article
Cervical screening legislation is unethical and has the potential to be counter-productive
Wallis, Katharine (2007). Cervical screening legislation is unethical and has the potential to be counter-productive. New Zealand Medical Journal, 120 (1266), 69-74.
2007
Journal Article
Do you know your legal obligations with regard to the National Cervical Screening Programme?
Wallis, Katharine (2007). Do you know your legal obligations with regard to the National Cervical Screening Programme?. New Zealand Family Physician, 34 (4), 285-288.
Funding
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