Dr Leanne Te Karu
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- Position
- Associate Dean (Māori)
- Research summary
- Complex chronic care
Research
Dr Leanne Te Karu is a member of the first cohort of pharmacist prescribers in Aotearoa. Her expertise focuses on complex chronic care, with addressing unmet need and optimal prescribing to decrease morbidity and mortality. She works in general practices -predominantly Māori of lower socioeconomic demography.
Her leadership to create The Māori Pharmacists Association in 2003 has led to an autonomous entity being established.
Increasingly over the last decade she has worked with national organisations including the Ministry of Health, and at a regulatory level to influence how structure and policy can respond to the needs at the coalface. In addition, she is Associate Dean Māori at Otago University School of Pharmacy to ensure the next generation of pharmacists can respond with a Hauora Māori lens.
Leanne was Inaugural Recipient of the Clinical Pharmacist of the Year Award and pushes others to strive for clinical excellence in a culturally competent and safe paradigm.
Publications
Stamp, L. K., & Te Karu, L. (2023). Reframing gout management to empower those who need it most. Arthritis & Rheumatology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/art.42740
Paul, R., Keenan, R., Rodrigues, M., Te Karu, L., Clarke, P., Murphy, R., … Chepulis, L. (2023). Inclusion of ethnicity in Special Authority criteria improves access to medications for Māori and Pacific peoples with type 2 diabetes [Research letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 136(1574), 93-97. Retrieved from https://journal.nzma.org.nz/
Te Karu, L., Dalbeth, N., & Stamp, L. K. (2021). Inequities in people with gout: A focus on Māori (indigenous people) of Aotearoa New Zealand. Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 13. doi: 10.1177/1759720x211028007
Te Karu, L., Habib, T., & Crengle, S. (2021). The inequity of access to contraception for women in Aotearoa: An unfair, unsafe and ineffective system. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1532), 86-88. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Guillén, A. G., Te Karu, L., Singh, J. A., & Dalbeth, N. (2020). Gender and ethnic inequities in gout burden and management. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 46, 693-703. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2020.07.008
Paul, R., Keenan, R., Rodrigues, M., Te Karu, L., Clarke, P., Murphy, R., … Chepulis, L. (2023). Inclusion of ethnicity in Special Authority criteria improves access to medications for Māori and Pacific peoples with type 2 diabetes [Research letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 136(1574), 93-97. Retrieved from https://journal.nzma.org.nz/
Journal - Research Article
Stamp, L. K., & Te Karu, L. (2023). Reframing gout management to empower those who need it most. Arthritis & Rheumatology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/art.42740
Journal - Research Article
Te Karu, L., Dalbeth, N., & Stamp, L. K. (2021). Inequities in people with gout: A focus on Māori (indigenous people) of Aotearoa New Zealand. Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 13. doi: 10.1177/1759720x211028007
Journal - Research Article
Dalbeth, N., Douglas, M., MacKrill, K., Te Karu, L., Kleinstäuber, M., & Petrie, K. J. (2020). The impact of the illness label 'gout' on illness and treatment perceptions in Māori (Indigenous New Zealanders). BMC Rheumatology, 4, 23. doi: 10.1186/s41927-020-00120-z
Journal - Research Article
Guillén, A. G., Te Karu, L., Singh, J. A., & Dalbeth, N. (2020). Gender and ethnic inequities in gout burden and management. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 46, 693-703. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2020.07.008
Journal - Research Article
Norris, P., Tordoff, J., McIntosh, B., Laxman, K., Chang, S. Y., & Te Karu, L. (2016). Impact of prescription charges on people living in poverty: A qualitative study. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 12(6), 893-902. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.11.001
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, G., Dalbeth, N., Te Karu, L., Winnard, D., Gow, P., Gerard, C., & Minko, N. (2014). Variation in gout care in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national analysis of quality markers. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1404). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Dalbeth, N., House, M. E., Horne, A., Te Karu, L., Petrie, K. J., McQueen, F. M., & Taylor, W. J. (2013). The experience and impact of gout in Māori and Pacific people: A prospective observational study. Clinical Rheumatology, 32(2), 247-251. doi: 10.1007/s10067-012-2110-5
Journal - Research Article
Te Karu, L., Bryant, L., & Elley, C. R. (2013). Maori experiences and perceptions of gout and its treatment: A kaupapa Maori qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 5(3), 214-222. doi: 10.1071/HC13214
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, G., Wright, C., Thornley, S., Taylor, W. J., Te Karu, L., Gow, P. J., … Winnard, D. (2012). Potential unmet need for gout diagnosis and treatment: Capture-recapture analysis of a national administrative dataset. Rheumatology, 51(10), 1820-1824. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes147
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Martini, N., Bryant, L., Te Karu, L., Aho, L., Chan, R., Miao, J., … Tieu, A. (2012). Living with gout in New Zealand: An exploratory study into people’s knowledge about the disease and its treatment. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, 18(3), 125-129. doi: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e31824e1f6f
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Winnard, D., Wright, C., Taylor, W. J., Jackson, G., Te Karu, L., Gow, P. J., … Dalbeth, N. (2012). National prevalence of gout derived from administrative health data in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rheumatology, 51(5), 901-909. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker361
Journal - Research Article
Te Karu, L., Habib, T., & Crengle, S. (2021). The inequity of access to contraception for women in Aotearoa: An unfair, unsafe and ineffective system. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1532), 86-88. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Dalbeth, N., Dowell, T., Gerard, C., Gow, P., Jackson, G., Shuker, C., & Te Karu, L. (2018). Gout in Aotearoa New Zealand: The equity crisis continues in plain sight. New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1485), 8-12. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Dalbeth, N., Gerard, C., Gow, P., Jackson, G., Shuker, C., Te Karu, L., & Winnard, D. (2016). Gout in Aotearoa New Zealand: Are we going to ignore this for another 3 years? New Zealand Medical Journal, 129(1429), 10-13. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Davis, A., Davis, K., Gerard, C., Goyal, S., Jackson, G., James, C., … Shuker, C., & Te Karu, L. (2016). Opioid rain: Opioid prescribing is growing and practice is diverging. New Zealand Medical Journal, 129(1440), 11-17. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Dalbeth, N., Winnard, D., Gow, P. J., Boswell, D. R., Te Karu, L., Lindsay, K., … Stamp, L. K. (2015). Urate testing in gout: Why, when and how. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1420). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Norris, P., McIntosh, B., Tordoff, J., Te Karu, L., & Chang, S. Y. (2015). Poverty, medicines and health care: It's the little things... Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(2), 170-171. [Commentary].
Journal - Research Other