Dr Katharine Fowler
Visiting Senior Fellow in Public Health
- School/Directorate
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health
Dr. Katharine Fowler is the Team Lead for locally developed research at ESNEFT. Katharine has a PhD in Clinical Exercise Physiology, which focused on perioperative optimisation for cancer and abdominal aortic aneurysm patients. Her research experience has been diverse, from military research projects to clinical projects covering; immunology, heat illness, sleep deprivation, prehabilitation and perinatal mental health. Katharine has refocused her research career in the past two years, to focus on perinatal mental health optimisation.
Katharine is second supervisor for a PhD students at University of Suffolk.
Research interests
- Prehabilitation
- Perinatal mental health
- Co-production
- Lived experience research
Publications
Thomas, G., West, MA., Browning, M., Minto, G., Swart, M., Richardson, K., McGarrity, L., Jack, S., Grocott, MPW. and Levett, DZH.. (2020) ‘Why women are not small men: sex-related differences in perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing.’, Perioperative medicine (London, England), 9.
Reeves, T., Bates, S., Sharp, T., Richardson, K., Bali, S., Plumb, J., Anderson, H., Prentis, J., Swart, M. and Levett, DZH.. (2018) ‘Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in the United Kingdom-a national survey of the structure, conduct, interpretation and funding.’, Perioperative medicine (London, England), 7.
Richardson, K., Levett, DZH., Jack, S. and Grocott, MPW.. (2017) ‘Fit for surgery? Perspectives on preoperative exercise testing and training.’, British journal of anaesthesia, 119(suppl_1).
Richardson, K. and Hopker, J.. (2016) ‘One minute to assess frailty, but what should we do next?’, Anaesthesia, 71(6).
West, MA., Asher, R., Browning, M., Minto, G., Swart, M., Richardson, K., McGarrity, L., Jack, S. and Grocott,MP.. (2016) ‘Validation of preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing-derived variables to predict in-hospital morbidity after major colorectal surgery.’, The British journal of surgery, 103(6).
Costa, RJ., Fortes, MB., Richardson, K., Bilzon, JL. and Walsh, NP.. (2012) ‘The effects of post exercise feeding on saliva antimicrobial proteins.’, International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism, 22(3).
Grants
Exploring people’s views of PeRinAtal exercise and its role for Mental health
Funder: UEA Health and Care Partnership Scheme
Amount awarded: £24,000
Role: Lead applicant and researcher
No research about us, without us
Funder: NIHR PDG
Amount awarded: £143,160
Role: PPI Lead
Ref: NIHR205211
Observational study exploring the timing of postnatal neonate weight measurements
Funder: UEA Health and Care Partnership Scheme
Amount awarded: £24900
Role: Co-applicant, and mentor to lead applicant
Is online patient education feasible in people with patellofemoral pain whilst they wait for
physiotherapy: a RCT
Funder: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Amount awarded: £98000
Role: PPI Lead
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of INSPIRatory musclE training (IMT) for reducing postoperative
Pulmonary complications
Funder: NIHR HTA
Amount awarded: £1900000
Role: Prehabilitation expertise and expertise around the evidence base for inspiratory muscle training an designing patient and staff training manuals.
NIHR Ref: 16/140/07
Accredited Clinical Exercise Physiologist (AHCS)