School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Mrs Karina O'Leary

Coordinator
Interprofessional Education (HaBS)
Conjoint, Interprofessional Education and Practice
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
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Researcher biography

Karina O'Leary is the Interprofessional Conjoint Fellow at the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Education and Research Alliance. A physiotherapist with extensive experience working within public and private musculoskeletal physiotherapy settings, Karina has also worked within academic settings in education and research roles.

Delivering high quality healthcare needs high functioning interprofessional teams. Karina's focus at STARS and her research is firstly, ensuring health professional students opportunities to develop interprofessional competencies, secondly, developing educators capability to deliver interprofessional work integrated learning opportunities and thirdly designing innovative ways to develop interprofessional practice within healthcare teams.

Karina 's PhD will use an experience based co-design framework to understand interprofessional practice within a local hospital setting, then designing interventions for students, educators and healthcare teams to engance interprofessional practice.

Qualifications

  • PhD candidate, The University of Queensland (commenced 2021)
  • Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, The University of Queensland (2009)
  • Master of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland (2005)
  • BSc (Honours) Physiotherapy, Leeds Metropolitan University (1997)

Awards and Fellowships

  • Heath and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Excellence in Clinical and Professional Skill Education Award (2022)

Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

O’Sullivan, Isobel C., da Costa, Nathalia Cordeiro, Franettovich Smith, Melinda M., Vicenzino, Bill, Crossley, Kay M., Kamper, Steven J., van Middelkoop, Marienke, Menz, Hylton B., Tucker, Kylie, O’Leary, Karina T. and Collins, Natalie J. (2022). Adolescent perspectives on participating in a feasibility trial investigating shoe inserts for patellofemoral pain. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 15 (1) 37, 37. doi: 10.1186/s13047-022-00537-4
O’Sullivan, Isobel C., Crossley, Kay M., Kamper, Steven J., van Middelkoop, Marienke, Vicenzino, Bill, Franettovich Smith, Melinda M., Menz, Hylton B., Smith, Anne J., Tucker, Kylie, O’Leary, Karina T., Costa, Nathalia and Collins, Natalie J. (2021). HAPPi Kneecaps! A double-blind, randomised, parallel group superiority trial investigating the effects of sHoe inserts for adolescents with patellofemoral PaIn: phase II feasibility study. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 14 (1) 64, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13047-021-00498-0
O’Sullivan, Isobel C., Crossley, Kay M., Kamper, Steven J., van Middelkoop, Marienke, Vicenzino, Bill, Franettovich Smith, Melinda M., Menz, Hylton B., Smith, Anne J., Tucker, Kylie, O’Leary, Karina T. and Collins, Natalie J. (2020). HAPPi Kneecaps! Protocol for a participant- and assessor-blinded, randomised, parallel group feasibility trial of foot orthoses for adolescents with patellofemoral pain. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 13 (1) 50, 50. doi: 10.1186/s13047-020-00417-9
Mandrusiak, Allison M., Isles, Rosemary, Chang, Angela T., Low Choy, Nancy L., Toppenberg, Rowena, McCook, Donna, Smith, Michelle D., O'Leary, Karina and Brauer, Sandra G. (2014). Senior physiotherapy students as standardised patients for junior students enhances self-efficacy and satisfaction in both junior and senior students. BMC Medical Education, 14 (1) 105, 105. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-105
O'Leary, K., Smith, M. and Vicenzino, B. (2008). Manual therapy in ankle management. Sports Physio (1), 21-23.
O'Leary, Karina and O'Leary, Shaun (2007). Managing soft tissue injuries. Australian pharmacist, 26 (6), 476-480.

Conference Paper

Collins, N., Cordeiro da Costa, N., Crossley, K., Kamper, S., Menz, H., O’Leary, K., O’Sullivan, I., Smith, A., Smith, M., Tucker, K., van Middelkoop, M. and Vincenzino, B. (2021). Foot orthoses make for Happi kneecaps! of adolescents with patellofemoral pain: a mixed methods design including randomised feasibility trial. 2021 SMA e-Conference, Online, 8-9 October 2021. Chatswood, NSW Australia: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.09.068