Karen Carlisle
- karen.carlisle@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1781-4057- Senior Lecturer, Medical Education
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Publications
39
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Contact Details
- +61747814308
- karen.carlisle@jcu.edu.au
Biography
Dr Karen Carlisle is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. With over 25 years of research experience in the UK and Australia, Karen has worked within population health, oral health, education and psychology settings. She has a particular interest and has published in the areas of health systems, community engagement and inter-sectoral collaboration to improve outcomes for the underserved and at risk.
Karen's primary degree is in Applied Psychology and began her career on a research council project examining skill acquisition in laparoscopic surgeons. Karen worked in the School of Education (Queen's University, Belfast) from 1999-2011 and completed her PhD exploring the experience of coteaching for pre-service science teachers (2003-2008). In addition Karen was part of a team researching multi-agency working in Northern Ireland which contributed to the development of the Shared Education Program aimed at promoting cross denominational school partnerships.
Karen moved to Australia in 2011 and joined Townsville Mackay Medicare Local as a research co-ordinator on the 'Townsville broadband enabled diabetes telehealth randomised controlled trial'. Karen has managed a number of NHMRC projects including the Rural Engaging Communities in Oral Health (Rural ECOH) project , Scaling up Quality Improvement through learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare services: Lessons from the Best, Leveraging Effective Ambulatory Practices (LEAP) and WOmen's action for Mums and Bubs (WOMB). Karen was also project manager for the ‘Strengthening capacity for policy relevant research on surveillance and response’ stream within the Partners in Tropical Health project funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (DFAT). Currently Senior Lecturer in the College of Medicine and Dentistry, co-ordinating Post Graduate Health Professional Education and Psychological Medicine and Human Development
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1781-4057