Dr. de Luca and I discuss her research on spinal pain in the elderly
and chiropractic. Katie de Luca is a post-doctoral research fellow in
the Department of Chiropractic at Macquarie University. She is a
chiropractor in clinical practice, however her research focuses on the
epidemiology and management of musculoskeletal conditions, with
expertise in the elderly. In 2016 she was awarded her PhD from the
University of Newcastle, School of Medicine and Public Health. Her
thesis explored the experience of pain in women with arthritis, and
resulted in substantial contributions to the fields of rheumatology,
pain and ageing research. She has 25 peer-reviewed journal publications
and more than 50 conference presentations, which includes several
invited keynote presentations on back pain in the elderly. These have
been at regional, national and international conferences in gerontology,
pain, public health and chiropractic forums. She is on the editorial
boards of Chiropractic and Manual Therapies and JMPT, and peer-reviews
for another 13 journals. She has received several large competitive
grants, most recently being awarded in excess of $400,00 in an industry
led grant from the Australia Chiropractors Association to perform a
longitudinal study on back pain in older Australians who present to a
chiropractor for treatment of their low back pain. She has won many
research prizes, including 1st prize at the World Federation of
Chiropractic Biennial Conference in Washington DC (March, 2017). She is
actively on the board for the Chiropractic Australia Research
Foundation, and is the Research Chair for Sports Chiropractic Australia.
She is one of only 13 CARL Fellows, a group which she is privileged to
be a part of. She hopes to be a leading chiropractic researcher on
spinal pain in the elderly.
View Dr. de Luca’s research at researchgate.net.
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