Dr Catherine Franklin

Senior Research Fellow

Mater Research Institute-UQ
Faculty of Medicine
c.franklin1@uq.edu.au
+61 7 3163 1625

Overview

Dr Cathy Franklin is a psychiatrist who specialises in the psychiatry of intellectual disability and autism in adolescents and adults. Cathy has worked in this area since 2004, and her career has largely focussed on clinical work and education until 2015, when she commenced a part-time research appointment. Cathy is the inaugural Director of the Mater Intellectual Disability and Autism Service (MIDAS), a statewide clinical service established in 2018 that works to improve the health and mental health of adults with intellectual or developmental disability (including autism). MIDAS has recently delivered an 18 month project commissioned by the Queensland Health Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Service, working to support mental health service clients who have intellectual and developmental disability, including support to access NDIS. Cathy has also recently become Director of QCIDD, the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability, a centre established in 1997 by Professor Nick Lennox and best known for its many contributions to health of people with intellectual disability, including the CHAP health assessment tool and the AbleX massive open-online course that Cathy contributed to.

Cathy's research interests include health services research and the biological underpinnings and health sequelae of conditions occurring in this population. She is Chief Investigator on several projects, including the ICARDS (Investigation of Catatonia and Acute Regression in Down Syndrome) Study, funded by the BICARE grant ($120,000) and also the EASY-Health (Enhancing Access to Services for Your Health) Project, funded by the Australian Government NDIS ($2.3 million 2020-2023). Cathy has presented at several different national and international conferences and meetings including numerous times at the Bi-National RANZCP Congress. She has served on the committee of the RANZCP Section of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability for over 10 years, is chair of the Qld Branch of the Section and also serves as Vice-President of the Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine (AADDM). In 2020 she was awarded the Mater Research Sister Regis Dunne award for Outstanding Contribution to research relative to opportunity.

Qualifications

  • Master of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Santoro, Jonathan, Spinazzi, Noemi, Filipink, Robyn, Rezvan, Penteha, Kammeyer, Ryan, Patel, Lina, Sannar, Elise, Dwyer, Luke, Banerjee, Abhik, Khoshnood, Mellad, Jafarpour, Saba, Boyd, Natalie, Partidge, Rebecca, Gombolay, Grace, Christy, Alison, del Carmen Ortega, Maria, Manning, Melanie, Van Mater, Heather, Worley, Gordon, Franklin, Cathy, Stanley, Maria, Brown, Ruth, Capone, George, Quinn, Eileen and Rafii, Michael (2023). Immunotherapy responsiveness and risk of relapse in Down Syndrome Regression Disorder (S34.003). Unknown, Unknown, Unknown. Philadelphia, PA USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. doi: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000202313

  • Edwards, Nicole, Franklin, catherin, king, Julie and Watling, Hanna (2023). Australian psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists’ perceptions of chemical restraint of adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/19315864.2023.2192689

  • Oreskovic, Nicolas M., Baumer, Nicole T., Di Camillo, Chiara, Cornachia, Michelle, Franklin, Catherine, Hart, Sarah J., Kishnani, Priya S., McCormick, Andrew, Milliken, Anna L., Patsiogiannis, Vasiliki, Pawlowski, Katherine G., Santoro, Stephanie L., Sargado, Sabrina, Scoppola, Vittorio, Torres, Amy, Valentini, Diletta, Vellody, Kishore, Villani, Alberto and Skotko, Brian G. (2023). Cardiometabolic profiles in children and adults with overweight and obesity and down syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 191 (3), 813-822. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63088

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Publications

Book

  • Hall, Caroline, Amor, David, Cohen, Jonathan, Davis, Robert, Durvasula, Seeta, Franklin, Catherine, Hemsley, Bronwyn, Karve, Avanti, Kyrkou, Margaret, Lennox, Nicholas, Leonard, Helen, Marraffa, Catherine, McVilly, Keith, Ng, Raphael, Palmer, Hugh, Shek, Annie, Siegel-Brown, Natalie, Small, Jacqueline, Somerville, Ernest, Tracy, Jane, Wilson, Nathan J., Wishart, Jo and Zimmet, Marcel eds. (2021). Developmental Disability, at eTG online. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Therapeutic Guidelines.

  • Judd, Fiona, Burkett, Ellen, Chan, Betty, Franklin, Catherine, Isoardi, Katherine, Kalucy, Megan, Kanagarajah, Shanthi, Knott, Jonathon, Koutsogiannis, Zeff, McLorinan, C. Paula, Munir, Venita, Rowles, Greg, Waddell, Lisa and Wilkin, Claire eds. (2021). Psychotropic Guidelines (eTG Complete). Melbourne, VIC Australia: Therapeutic Guidelines.

Book Chapter

  • Franklin, Catherine (2012). Psychiatric disorders: assessment. Management Guidelines: Developmental Disability. (pp. 143-151) edited by Susie Rogers. West Melbourne, Australia: Therapeutic Guidelines.

Journal Article

  • Edwards, Nicole, Franklin, catherin, king, Julie and Watling, Hanna (2023). Australian psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists’ perceptions of chemical restraint of adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/19315864.2023.2192689

  • Oreskovic, Nicolas M., Baumer, Nicole T., Di Camillo, Chiara, Cornachia, Michelle, Franklin, Catherine, Hart, Sarah J., Kishnani, Priya S., McCormick, Andrew, Milliken, Anna L., Patsiogiannis, Vasiliki, Pawlowski, Katherine G., Santoro, Stephanie L., Sargado, Sabrina, Scoppola, Vittorio, Torres, Amy, Valentini, Diletta, Vellody, Kishore, Villani, Alberto and Skotko, Brian G. (2023). Cardiometabolic profiles in children and adults with overweight and obesity and down syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 191 (3), 813-822. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63088

  • Santoro, Stephanie L., Baumer, Nicole T., Cornacchia, Michelle, Franklin, Catherine, Hart, Sarah J., Haugen, Kelsey, Hojlo, Margaret A., Horick, Nora, Kishnani, Priya S., Krell, Kavita, McCormick, Andrew, Milliken, Anna L., Oreskovic, Nicolas M., Pawlowski, Katherine G., Sargado, Sabrina, Torres, Amy, Valentini, Diletta, Vellody, Kishore and Skotko, Brian G. (2023). Response to Letter to the Editor by Palffy and Ghaziuddin. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A, 191 (5), 1470-1473. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63116

  • Santoro, Stephanie L., Baumer, Nicole T., Cornacchia, Michelle, Franklin, Catherine, Hart, Sarah J., Haugen, Kelsey, Hojlo, Margaret A., Horick, Nora, Kishnani, Priya S., Krell, Kavita, McCormick, Andrew, Milliken, Anna L., Oreskovic, Nicolas M., Pawlowski, Katherine G., Sargado, Sabrina, Torres, Amy, Valentini, Diletta, Vellody, Kishore and Skotko, Brian G. (2022). Unexplained regression in Down syndrome: Management of 51 patients in an international patient database. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A, 188 (10), 3049-3062. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62922

  • Flavell, Joshua, Franklin, Catherine and Nestor, Peter J. (2022). A systematic review of fragile X-associated neuropsychiatric disorders. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 35 (2), 110-120. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.21110282

  • Santoro, Jonathan D., Patel, Lina, Kammeyer, Ryan, Filipink, Robyn A., Gombolay, Grace Y., Cardinale, Kathleen M., Real de Asua, Diego, Zaman, Shahid, Santoro, Stephanie L., Marzouk, Sammer M., Khoshnood, Mellad, Vogel, Benjamin N., Tanna, Runi, Pagarkar, Dania, Dhanani, Sofia, Ortega, Maria del Carmen, Partridge, Rebecca, Stanley, Maria A., Sanders, Jessica S., Christy, Alison, Sannar, Elise M., Brown, Ruth, McCormick, Andrew A., Van Mater, Heather, Franklin, Cathy, Worley, Gordon, Quinn, Eileen A., Capone, George T., Chicoine, Brian ... Rafii, Michael S. (2022). Assessment and diagnosis of Down syndrome regression disorder: international expert consensus. Frontiers in Neurology, 13 940175, 940175. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.940175

  • Santoro, Stephanie L., Cannon, Sheila, Capone, George, Franklin, Cathy, Hart, Sarah J., Hobensack, Victoria, Kishnani, Priya S., Macklin, Eric A., Manickam, Kandamurugu, McCormick, Andrew, Nash, Patricia, Oreskovic, Nicolas M., Patsiogiannis, Vasiliki, Steingass, Katherine, Torres, Amy, Valentini, Diletta, Vellody, Kishore and Skotko, Brian G. (2019). Unexplained regression in Down syndrome: 35 cases from an international Down syndrome database. Genetics in Medicine, 22 (4), 767-776. doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0706-8

  • White, Melissa and Franklin, Catherine (2018). Adult with autism spectrum disorder presenting with insidious onset of catatonia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52 (11), 1092-1093. doi: 10.1177/0004867418802898

  • Theodoratos, Oreste, McPherson, Lyn, Franklin, Catherine, Tonge, Bruce, Einfeld, Stewart, Lennox, Nicholas and Ware, Robert S. (2017). Psychopathology of adolescents with an intellectual disability who present to general hospital services. Australasian Psychiatry, 25 (5), 481-485. doi: 10.1177/1039856217706820

  • Trollor, Julian N., Salomon, Carmela and Franklin, Catherine (2016). Prescribing psychotropic drugs to adults with an intellectual disability. Australian Prescriber, 39 (4), 126-130. doi: 10.18773/austprescr.2016.048

  • Franklin, Cathy (2014). Obituary: Professor Gregory O'Brien (1955-2014). Australasian Psychiatry, 22 (6), 601-602. doi: 10.1177/1039856214558986c

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