Grimmer, Karen

Karen is the inaugural director of the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE). She has grown the centre from 2003 with two researchers and two PhD students, to currently 63 members (39 university staff appointments, 4 postdocs, 7 research assistants, 11 PhD and Masters Research students). Karen has been publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles since 1989, and has authored and co-authored 281 papers to date, with another 15 in press. Karen’s scholarly work reflects allied health quality and service delivery issues; evidence based practice theory, practice and implementation; discharge planning quality and ageing in place; and adolescent spinal health. Karen has published eight invited book chapters, conceptualised and edited two niche textbooks on evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines, and presented hundreds of conference presentations. Since she entered academia in 1997, she has personally attracted over $4mill research income, and supported other iCAHE researchers to attract an additional $2.5mill. She has supervised 26 PhD students to completion, in a range of topic areas. She has established long term, valued and formal linkages with research institutions in South Africa, Tokyo, Manila, Hong Kong and California. These partnerships have fostered collaborative teaching, research and researcher/ student exchanges.