Katie is an emergency physician and the director of emergency medicine research at Cabrini. She has publishes original, also book chapters, perspectives, letters and case reports. She has presented work locally, nationally and internationally. Her main interests are in physician productivity, evaluating the role of the scribe and improving patient-centred care. She has completed a multi-centre randomised study, evaluating the impact 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 Cabrini data to multi-centre clinical trials. She is an ACEM Clinical Trials Network founding executive committee member. She is a member of the Cabrini Human Ethics and Research Committee, 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.

• 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

Emergency Physician at Cabrini Hospital, Melbourne.