Lauren Christie

Dr Lauren Christie is the Senior Implementation Science Research Fellow for Allied Health at St Vincent's Health Network Sydney, where she leads the Allied Health Research Unit. She is an occupational therapist, early career researcher and Clinical Senior Research Fellow of Australian Catholic University. Dr Christie is a practicing occupational therapist with over 18 years’ clinical experience in neurological rehabilitation in Australia and the United Kingdom. She is regularly invited to deliver training in evidence-based stroke rehabilitation and knowledge translation to clinicians in Australia and internationally. In her role as head of the St Vincent's Allied Health Research Unit, she supports allied health clinicians to engage in embedded clinical research, thus enhancing research capacity on campus. Dr Christie’s program of research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based interventions across the continuum of stroke and acquired brain injury recovery to enhance equity of access to high-quality care and rehabilitation. As Chief Investigator, she has been awarded competitive research funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), Heart Foundation, Stroke Foundation, NSW Health Translational Research Grant Scheme and philanthropic organisations.

Dr Christie has been recognised as an emerging leader in implementation science and stroke, with appointments to Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Implementation Science Collaborative and the International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance. She is an appointed committee member of the Australian & New Zealand Stroke Organisation, Stroke Foundation Clinical Council and contributor to the NHMRC Australian New Zealand Living Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management.

Lauren's publications can be found here