Karen Graham
Karen has been working with children with disabilities for most of the 17.5 years she has been a physiotherapist. She has a moderate-severe addiction to learning and uses the skills that she has learnt on dozens of courses to provide the best possible care to children and families she works with.
About this speaker
Karen moved to Tasmania for a year as a new graduate physiotherapist in 2007. She spent just over a year working in an hospital setting and has since worked in community paediatrics and/or private practice.
After 17 years as a clinician with only recent toe-dips into the world of research, Karen commenced her PhD at the start of 2024. Trying to balance research studies with clinical work has been challenging, but the combination of a passion-project around inclusion and swimming as well as an amazing supervision team has meant that it needed to be done.
Karen is a physiotherapist with a passion for inclusion, a love of yoga and is a bit too much of a “yes” person. She is a neurodivergent woman with a wonderfully tolerant neurotypical husband and they have two beautifully sparkly neurodivergent children. Karen loves the outdoors and enjoys a variety of outdoor activities with her family in all kinds of weather.
