Kara McLoughlin

Kara Mc Loughlin graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy from Teesside University in 2012. She worked in the UK & New Zealand before returning to Ireland in 2016. She has taken an active role in prompting Occupational Therapy in Ireland and sat on the management team for the Association of Occupational Therapy.

Both academically and clinically Kara has had an active role in the emerging area of Geriatric Emergency Medicine. She completed her MSc in Older Persons Rehabilitation at University College Cork and completing research exploring Emergency Medics understanding and management of frailty. She was also involved in the setting up of a number of Frail Intervention Therapy Teams through Ireland before commencing her current post as research fellow/PhD candidate in the University of Limerick in May 2023.

Her current post is the principal investigator on the CREAT-ED – Development of Core Outcome Set for Older Adults in the Emergency Department project.

T he primary aim of this study is to develop an evidence and consensus-based Core Outcome Set (COS) for research studies with older adults in the Emergency Department (ED). It will involves a large steering group of international specialise in the area of older adults in the ED as and Patient and pubic (PPI) involvement. This project will run from 2023-2027.