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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 data science. She also contributes data to multi-centre clinical trials. She is an ACEM Clinical Trials Network founding executive committee member and the chair of the ACEM research committee. She has served on the Cabrini Human Ethics and Research Committee, is a journal editor for binational and international journals, 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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Emergency Physician, Cabrini Health Limited
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
- Data science
- Visualisation
- Health Equity
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Projects
- 3 Finished
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Emergency Department data to assess the impact of COVID-19 restrictions
Craig, S. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), John-White, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), O'Reilly, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Middleton, P. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Jones, P. G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Borland, M. L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dalziel, S. R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Egerton-Warburton, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Kuhn, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Walker, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), West, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Fong, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Mosley, I. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Ben-Mier, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Joe, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Papatheohari, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rankin, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stephenson, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Martini, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Lowthian, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stephenson, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Blecher, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rodda, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Turhan, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Tantithamthavorn, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Aleti, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Jiarpakdee, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Department of Health and Aged Care (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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Mills, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cyarto, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Meyer, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dickins, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Thurgood, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Boyd, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Walker, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rose, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), De Villiers Smit, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Newnham, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hutchinson, A. M. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
1/07/19 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Infectious and sepsis presentations to, and hospital admissions from emergency departments in Victoria, Australia
Flacks, N., Martin, C., Liew, D., Walker, K. & Jones, D., Jun 2024, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 36, 3, p. 450-458 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Clinical presentation and assessment of older patients presenting with headache to emergency departments: A multicentre observational study
Beck, S., Kinnear, F. B., Maree Kelly, A., Chu, K. H., Sen Kuan, W., Keijzers, G., Body, R., Karamercan, M., Klim, S., Wijeratne, T., Kamona, S., Graham, C., Roberts, T., Horner, D., Laribi, S. & HEAD Study Group, Mar 2022, In: Australasian Journal on Ageing. 41, 1, p. 126-137 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Emergency medicine patient wait time multivariable prediction models: a multicentre derivation and validation study
Walker, K., Jiarpakdee, J., Loupis, A., Tantithamthavorn, C., Joe, K., Ben-Meir, M., Akhlaghi, H., Hutton, J. E., Wang, W. C., Stephenson, M., Blecher, G. E., Buntine, P. G., Sweeny, A., Turhan, B. & Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Clinical Trials Network, May 2022, In: Emergency Medicine Journal. 39, 5, p. 386-393 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
11 Citations (Scopus) -
From little things, big things grow: An exploratory analysis of the national cost of peripheral intravenous catheter insertion in Australian adult emergency care
Morgan, R., Callander, E. J., Cullen, L., Walker, K., Bumpstead, S., Hawkins, T., Kuhn, L. & Egerton-Warburton, D., Dec 2022, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 34, 6, p. 877-883 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access10 Citations (Scopus) -
Management of patients presenting with low back pain to a private hospital emergency department in Melbourne, Australia
Buchbinder, R., Bourne, A., Staples, M., Lui, C., Walker, K., Ben-Meir, M., Gorelik, A. & Blecher, G., Apr 2022, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 34, 2, p. 157-163 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
19 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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John Gilroy Potts award 2019
Walker, K. (Recipient), Ben-Meir, M. (Recipient), Dunlop, W. A. (Recipient), Rosler, R. (Recipient), West, A. (Recipient), O'Connor, G. (Recipient), Chan, T. (Recipient), Badcock, D. (Recipient), Putland, M. (Recipient), Hansen, K. (Recipient), Crock, C. (Recipient), Liew, D. (Recipient), Taylor, D. (Recipient) & Staples, M. (Recipient), 6 Nov 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)