Professor Katharine Wallis

Mayne Professor, Academy of General

Medical School (Greater Brisbane Clinical School)
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

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.

Research Interests

  • Safer prescribing in general practice
  • Decreasing unnecessary and potentially harmful long-term use of antidepressants to improve patient outcomes
  • Older driver medical assessment in general practice

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Otago
  • Masters (Coursework) of Bioethics, University of Otago
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics, University of Otago
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, University of Otago

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  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

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Book Chapter

  • Wallis, Katharine A. (2019). How to create an effective poster. How to Do Primary Care Research. (pp. 267-269) edited by Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Robert Mash. Boca Raton, Fl, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351014519-28

  • Goodyear-Smith, Felicity and Wallis, Katharine A. (2019). How to write and how to publish. How to Do Primary Care Research. (pp. 257-265) edited by Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Robert Mash. Boca Raton, Fl, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781351014519-27

  • Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga, Dunham, Annette, North, Nicola and Wallis, Katharine (2018). The concept of leadership in the health care sector. Leadership. (pp. 83-95) edited by Süleyman Davut Göker. London, United Kingdom: InTechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.76133

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