Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Katie is an emergency physician at Casey Hospital. Her main interests are in health services research, productivity, innovation and new technology. She has completed a multi-centre randomised study, evaluating the impact of scribes on physician productivity across Victoria (BMJ) and developed, evaluated and managed an Australian scribe training program.
Katie is a collaborator in work on geriatric/end-of-life care, private emergency medicine, musculoskeletal disease, new medical device technology research, emergency health policy and exploratory data-mining. She also contributes data to multi-centre clinical trials. She is an ACEM Clinical Trials Network founding executive committee member. She has served on the Cabrini Human Ethics and Research Committee, is a journal section editor and a reviewer for multiple academic journals.
Katie enjoys teaching clinical research skills to university students, emergency medicine trainees and emergency medicine specialists. She also advises and collaborates with established researchers in other fields regarding how to test their innovations in clinical settings.
Research interests
- Emergency medicine
- Health workforce
- Medical scribes
- Health policy
- Health technology
- Innovation
- Private emergency medicine
- End-of-life care
- Patient centred care
- Multi-centre emergency medicine clinical trials
- Geriatric emergency medicine
Clinical activities
Emergency Physician at Casey Hospital, Monash Health, Melbourne.
External positions
Emergency Physician, Cabrini Health
Emergency Physician, Casey Hospital
Research area keywords
- Emergency Medicine
- Scribe
- End of life care
- Goals of Care
- Geriatrics
- Health Economics (cost-effectiveness, health technology assessment, cost of illness, budget impact analysis)
- Patient experience
- Quality and safety
- Geriatric Emergency Medicine
- Cost Effectiveness
- Health workforce
- Medical Scribe
- Scribe education
- Scribe implementation
- Wait times
- Health policy
- Health Technology Assessments
- Palliative Care
Network
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Projects
- 3 Active
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Emergency Department data to assess the impact of COVID-19 restrictions
Craig, S., John-White, M., O'Reilly, G., Middleton, P. M., Jones, P. G., Borland, M. L., Dalziel, S. R., Egerton-Warburton, D., Kuhn, L., Walker, K., West, A., Fong, C. & Mosley, I.
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Investigation of the utility and the user experiences of widespread access to accurate emergency department wait times.
Walker, K., Ben-Mier, M., Joe, K., Papatheohari, J., Rankin, D., Stephenson, M., Martini, E., Lowthian, J., Stephenson, M., Blecher, G., Rodda, H., Turhan, B., Tantithamthavorn, C., Aleti, A. & Jiarpakdee, J.
Department of Health (Australia)
1/07/19 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Be Your Best: an innovative, co-designed approach to frailty and care transitions from hospital to home, in people aged 65 years or more.
Lowthian, J., Mills, A., Cyarto, L., Meyer, C., Dickins, M., Thurgood, L., Boyd, L., Walker, K., Rose, M., De Villiers Smit, P., Newnham, H. & Hutchinson, A. M.
Department of Health (Australia)
1/07/19 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Emergency medicine electronic health record usability: Where to from here?
Walker, K., Dwyer, T. & Heaton, H. A., 2021, In : Emergency Medicine Journal. 2 p., 211384.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other › peer-review
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A chest-based continuous cuffless blood pressure method: estimation and evaluation using multiple body sensors
Heydari, F., Ebrahim, M. P., Redoute, J. M., Joe, K., Walker, K. & Yuce, M. R., Feb 2020, In : Information Fusion. 54, p. 119-127 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Cuffless blood pressure estimation based on pulse arrival time using bio-impedance during different postures and physical exercises
Heydari, F., Ebrahim, M. P., Wu, T., Walker, K., Joe, K., Redouté, J. M. & Yuce, M. R., 2020, 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks. Iinatti, J., Mucchi, L., Pomalaza-Raez, C. & Anzai, D. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 301-307 7 p. (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing; vol. 3).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Description of the impact of flow, junior doctor supervision, and pandemic preparation on the ability of Emergency Physicians to provide direct patient care
Lim, A., Gupta, N., Lim, A., Hong, W. & Walker, K., 31 Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Australian Health Review. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Older person with vague symptoms in the emergency department: Where should I begin?
Jackman, C., Laging, R., Laging, B., Honan, B., Arendts, G. & Walker, K., Feb 2020, In : Emergency Medicine Australasia. 32, 1, p. 141-147 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Prizes
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John Gilroy Potts award 2019
Walker, Katie (Recipient), Michael Ben-Meir (Recipient), William A. Dunlop (Recipient), Rachel Rosler (Recipient), West, Adam (Recipient), Gabrielle O'Connor (Recipient), Thomas Chan (Recipient), Diana Badcock (Recipient), Mark Putland (Recipient), Kim Hansen (Recipient), Carmel Crock (Recipient), Liew, Danny (Recipient), David Taylor (Recipient) & Staples, Margaret (Recipient), 6 Nov 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)