Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Katy is is a medically trained epidemiologist with specialist expertise in evaluating tests used for screening, diagnosis and surveillance. Her research has uncovered the importance of recognising the inherent measurement variability of tests when interpreting and communicating results, with work appearing in prominent journals such as BMJ (5 first-authored papers), JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year
Jan 28, 2020 08:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In the same year, we found that approximately one in five...
Five warning signs of overdiagnosis
Feb 05, 2019 09:32 am UTC| Health
Weve had it drummed into us over decades that early detection is key to treating diseases early, before they have a chance to turn into something really nasty. But weve since learnt the flip-side of this is...
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