Karina Coffey

PHYSIOTHERAPIST & DIRECTOR

• Master of Health Administration (La Trobe)

• Grad Cert Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy (University of Melbourne)

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy (La Trobe)

• APPI Matwork Pilates Level 1

Karina graduated from La Trobe University in 2007 and has since specialised in Women’s Health physiotherapy. She has extensive experience working within the pelvic floor and continence field in the public sector within Australia and the UK, having worked within some of the UK’s most prominent maternity and gynaecology units including St Thomas’s Hospital, University College Hospital and King’s College Hospital in London.

Complementing her role at MPPP, Karina is a Senior Clinician in the Women’s Physiotherapy Department at Western Health. In this role, she established an Advanced Practice Urogynaecology clinic (which received a ‘Highly Commended’ in the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards) and oversees the physiotherapy care of maternity and gynaecological inpatients and outpatients across the organisation. She also worked in a senior role facilitating the transition of Allied Health workforce and models of care into the new Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s at Sunshine Hospital.

Karina is a clinical tutor on the Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Post Graduate Certificate at the University of Melbourne and enjoys working with junior staff through mentoring and training.

Karina consults at MPPP on Wednesday and Thursday

Contact: karina@mppp.com.au