Professor Katie Sheehan, BSc DipStat PhD MCSP fHEA
Professor of Rehabilitation
Centre: Bone and Joint Health
Email: k.sheehan@qmul.ac.ukTwitter: @KatieJSheehan
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Professor Katie Sheehan is a health services researcher and physiotherapist with experience from Ireland, Canada, and the UK.
Katie is available for PhD and postdoctoral supervision in rehabilitation, bone and joint health, and/or ageing (as they relate to health services research). She is particularly keen to support aspiring allied health professional researchers.
Katie is driven by the potential for rehabilitation to enable people to recover what matters to them following illness/injury. Her research focuses on improving access to- and delivery of- quality rehabilitation across the care continuum to optimise outcomes of fragility fractures in older adults. She has a strong track record in secondary analysis of linked audit data, qualitative interview studies, and complex intervention development to meet this focus.
Katie has published over 60 peer-reviewed publications and been awarded more than £1.9 million in grant funding from UKRI, NIHR, and charities for her research.
Katie is the Chair-elect of the Scientific Committee of the Global Fragility Fracture Network, and Chair of the National Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme Scientific and Publications Committee. She serves on the Royal Osteoporosis Society and NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research funding panels.
Katie is a Fellow of both the UK Young Academy and the Young Academy of Europe where she advocates for clinical academics and early career researchers.
Research
Research Interests:
Professor Katie Sheehan is keen to support the next generation of rehabilitation researchers to achieve their ambitions of optimising patient care. She is happy to support research in the areas of rehabilitation, bone and joint health, and/or ageing (as they relate to health services research).
Katie’s own research focuses on:
1. Access, delivery and outcomes of care after fragility fracture
2. Stratified approaches to care after fragility fracture
3. Observational data analysis (competing risk, prediction modelling, causal inference)
4. Qualitative interview studies
5. Development of complex interventions
Publications
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Turabi RY, O’Connell MDL, Wyatt D et al. (publicationYear). Weight-bearing and mobilisation timing after hip fracture surgery in older adults: an international survey of clinicians' perspectives. nameOfConference
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Hall MC, Smith B, Sheehan KJ et al. (2025). Non-surgical interventions for arthrofibrosis following knee joint replacement: A systematic review.. nameOfConference
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Tang D, Sheehan KJ, Goubar A et al. (2025). The temporal trend in frailty prevalence from 2011 to 2020 and disparities by equity factors among middle-aged and older people in China: A population-based study. nameOfConference
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Alobaid T, Karalliedde J, O’Connell MD et al. (2025). The Prevalence and Progression of Microvascular Complications and the Interaction With Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status in People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1155/jdr/3307594
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Bell J, Turabi R, Olsen SU et al. (publicationYear). Interdisciplinary Oral Nutrition Support and Supplementation After Hip Fracture Surgery in Older Adult Inpatients: A Global Cross-Sectional Survey (ONS-STUDY). nameOfConference
DOI: 10.3390/nu17020240
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Sheehan KJ, Guerra S, Ayis S et al. (publicationYear). Structured tailored rehabilitation after hip fragility fracture: The ‘Stratify’ feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial protocol. nameOfConference
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Stubbs DJ, Davies BM, Edlmann E et al. (2024). Clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with a chronic subdural haematoma: multidisciplinary recommendations from presentation to recovery. nameOfConference
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Sheehan KJ, Bastas D, Guerra S et al. (publicationYear). Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of the 'Outdoor' mobility intervention for older adults after hip fracture.. nameOfConference
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Siminiuc D, Gumuskaya O, Mitchell R et al. (publicationYear). Rehabilitation after surgery for hip fracture – the impact of prompt, frequent and mobilisation-focused physiotherapy on discharge outcomes: an observational cohort study. nameOfConference
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Milton-Cole R, Sheehan KJ (2024). Author response to: OSIN-D-24–00452, “Comment on: Effectiveness of exercise rehabilitation interventions on depressive symptoms in older adults post hip fracture: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. nameOfConference