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Dr Kayla Cornett

PhD, MSc, BHK (Ex Phys)

Postdoctoral Research Associate-Inherited Neuropathy
Sydney School of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health

Email

kayla.cornett@sydney.edu.au

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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Websites

Clinical Outcome Measures

Biographical details

Dr Kayla Cornett PhD, is a NIH funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney and Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She is an expert in clinical outcome measurement for pediatric neuromuscular diseases. As an early career researcher Dr Cornett has over 35 publications including a seminal report published in the Annals of Neurology focusing on the natural history of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease during childhood. She collaborates with leading researchers in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease internationally with her research focusing on reliable and sensitive assessment of function in children with neuromuscular diseases.

Themes

Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Neurosciences and Mental Health

Keywords

Exercise physiology, Neuromuscular diseases, Nervous system diseases, Paediatrics and Child Health

Approaches

Assessment/Evaluation, Clinical Trials, Rehabilitation

Current research students

Project title	Research student
An investigation of fatigue in paediatric patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease	Monica MARZOUK

Publications

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Journals

de Paula, C., Donlevy, G., Cardoso, J., Cornett, K., Kennedy, R., Woodhall, M., Mattiello-Sverzut, A., Burns, J. (2024). Translating a Clinical Practice Guideline to a Portuguese, Spanish and English Practice Brief to promote exercise therapy for paediatric Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Physiotherapy, 125, 101419. [More Information]
Donlevy, G., Garnett, S., Cornett, K., Baldwin, J., Shy, R., Yum, S., Estilow, T., Moroni, I., Foscan, M., Pagliano, E., Burns, J., Menezes, M., et al (2021). Association Between Body Mass Index and Disability in Children With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Neurology, 97(17), e1727-e1736. [More Information]
Argente-Escrig, H., Burns, J., Donlevy, G., Frasquet, M., Cornett, K., Sevilla, T., Menezes, M. (2021). Clinical, Genetic, and Disability Profile of Pediatric Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy. Neurology, 96(3), e423-e432. [More Information]
Montes, J., Goodwin, A., McDermott, M., Uher, D., Hernandez, F., Coutts, K., Cocchi, J., Hauschildt, M., Cornett, K., Rao, A., et al (2021). Diminished muscle oxygen uptake and fatigue in spinal muscular atrophy. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 8(5), 1086-1095. [More Information]
Towheed, A., Hietanen, C., Kamath, V., Singh, L., Ho, A., Engelstad, K., Cornett, K., Montes, J., De Vivo, D. (2021). Hypotonia-cystinuria 2p21 deletion syndrome: Intrafamilial variability of clinical expression. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 8(11), 2199-2204. [More Information]
Haynes, E., Neubauer, N., Cornett, K., O’connor, B., Jones, G., Jakobi, J. (2020). Age and sex-related decline of muscle strength across the adult lifespan: A scoping review of aggregated data. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 45(11), 1185-1196. [More Information]
Goodwin, A., Cornett, K., McKay, M., Burns, J., Garber, C., De Vivo, D., Montes, J. (2020). Limitations of 6-minute walk test reference values for spinal muscular atrophy. Muscle and Nerve, 61(3), 375-382. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Estilow, T., Yum, S., Bhandari, T., Burns, J., et al (2020). Refining clinical trial inclusion criteria to optimize the standardized response mean of the CMTPedS. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 7(9), 1713-1715. [More Information]
Bray, P., Cornett, K., Estilow, T., Pareyson, D., Zuccarino, R., Skorupinska, M., Pipis, M., Sowden, J., Scherer, S., Reilly, M., Burns, J., et al (2020). Reliability of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth functional outcome measure. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 25(3), 288-291. [More Information]
Zuccarino, R., Prada, V., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Foscan, M., Robbiano, G., Pisciotta, C., Cornett, K., Shy, R., Schenone, A., Burns, J., et al (2020). Validation of the Italian version of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Pediatric Scale. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 25(2), 138-142. [More Information]
Estilow, T., Glanzman, A., Burns, J., Harrington, A., Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Bray, P., et al (2019). Balance Impairment in Pediatric Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Muscle and Nerve, 60(3), 242-249. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Wojciechowski, E., Sman, A., Walker, T., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J. (2019). Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the anterior compartment of the lower leg is a biomarker for weakness, disability and impaired gait in childhood Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Muscle and Nerve, 59(2), 213-217. [More Information]
Lin, T., Gibbons, P., Mudge, A., Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Burns, J. (2019). Surgical outcomes of cavovarus foot deformity in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Neuromuscular Disorders, 29(6), 427-436. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J. (2018). Established and novel measures of upper limb impairment in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A and Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency type 2. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 23(1), 29-35. [More Information]
Eichinger, K., Burns, J., Cornett, K., Bacon, C., Shepherd, M., Mountain, J., Sowden, J., Shy, R., Shy, M., Herrmann, D. (2018). The Charcot-Marie-Tooth Functional Outcome Measure (CMT-FOM). Neurology, 91(15), e1381-e1384. [More Information]
Kanhangad, M., Cornett, K., Brewer, M., Nicholson, G., Ryan, M., Smith, R., Subramanian, G., Young, H., Zuchner, S., Kennerson, M., Burns, J., Menezes, M. (2018). Unique clinical and neurophysiologic profile of a cohort of children with CMTX3. Neurology, 90(19), e1706-e1710. [More Information]
Wojciechowski, E., Sman, A., Cornett, K., Raymond, J., Refshauge, K., Menezes, M., Burns, J. (2017). Gait patterns of children and adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Gait and Posture, 56, 89-94. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Estilow, T., Yum, S., Bhandari, T., Muntoni, F., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J., et al (2017). Natural history of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease during childhood. Annals of Neurology, 82(3), 353-359. [More Information]
Harwood, B., Scherer, J., Brown, R., Cornett, K., Kenno, K., Jakobi, J. (2017). Neuromuscular responses of the plantar flexors to whole-body vibration. Scandinavian Journal Of Medicine and Science In Sports, 27(12), 1569-1575. [More Information]
Burns, J., Sman, A., Cornett, K., Wojciechowski, E., Walker, T., Menezes, M., Mandarakas, M., Rose, K., Bray, P., Sampaio, H., Refshauge, K., Raymond, J., et al (2017). Safety and efficacy of progressive resistance exercise for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in children: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled trial. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 1(2), 106-113. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Shy, R., Yum, S., Estilow, T., Moroni, I., Foscan, M., Pagliano, E., Burns, J., et al (2016). Phenotypic variability of childhood Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. JAMA Neurology, 73(6), 645-651. [More Information]
Cornett, K., North, K., Rose, K., Burns, J. (2015). Muscle weakness in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 57(8), 733-736. [More Information]
Harwood, B., Cornett, K., Edwards, D., Brown, R., Jakobi, J. (2014). The effect of tendon vibration on motor unit activity, intermuscular coherence and force steadiness in the elbow flexors of males and females. Acta Physiologica, 211(4), 597-608. [More Information]

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Conferences

Duong, T., Uher, D., Young, S., Duong, T., Sangco, M., Cornett, K., Montes, J., Zanotto, D. (2021). Gaussian Process Regression for COP Trajectory Estimation in Healthy and Pathological Gait Using Instrumented Insoles. 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [More Information]

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2024

de Paula, C., Donlevy, G., Cardoso, J., Cornett, K., Kennedy, R., Woodhall, M., Mattiello-Sverzut, A., Burns, J. (2024). Translating a Clinical Practice Guideline to a Portuguese, Spanish and English Practice Brief to promote exercise therapy for paediatric Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Physiotherapy, 125, 101419. [More Information]

2021

Donlevy, G., Garnett, S., Cornett, K., Baldwin, J., Shy, R., Yum, S., Estilow, T., Moroni, I., Foscan, M., Pagliano, E., Burns, J., Menezes, M., et al (2021). Association Between Body Mass Index and Disability in Children With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Neurology, 97(17), e1727-e1736. [More Information]
Argente-Escrig, H., Burns, J., Donlevy, G., Frasquet, M., Cornett, K., Sevilla, T., Menezes, M. (2021). Clinical, Genetic, and Disability Profile of Pediatric Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy. Neurology, 96(3), e423-e432. [More Information]
Montes, J., Goodwin, A., McDermott, M., Uher, D., Hernandez, F., Coutts, K., Cocchi, J., Hauschildt, M., Cornett, K., Rao, A., et al (2021). Diminished muscle oxygen uptake and fatigue in spinal muscular atrophy. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 8(5), 1086-1095. [More Information]
Duong, T., Uher, D., Young, S., Duong, T., Sangco, M., Cornett, K., Montes, J., Zanotto, D. (2021). Gaussian Process Regression for COP Trajectory Estimation in Healthy and Pathological Gait Using Instrumented Insoles. 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [More Information]
Towheed, A., Hietanen, C., Kamath, V., Singh, L., Ho, A., Engelstad, K., Cornett, K., Montes, J., De Vivo, D. (2021). Hypotonia-cystinuria 2p21 deletion syndrome: Intrafamilial variability of clinical expression. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 8(11), 2199-2204. [More Information]

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2020

Haynes, E., Neubauer, N., Cornett, K., O’connor, B., Jones, G., Jakobi, J. (2020). Age and sex-related decline of muscle strength across the adult lifespan: A scoping review of aggregated data. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 45(11), 1185-1196. [More Information]
Goodwin, A., Cornett, K., McKay, M., Burns, J., Garber, C., De Vivo, D., Montes, J. (2020). Limitations of 6-minute walk test reference values for spinal muscular atrophy. Muscle and Nerve, 61(3), 375-382. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Estilow, T., Yum, S., Bhandari, T., Burns, J., et al (2020). Refining clinical trial inclusion criteria to optimize the standardized response mean of the CMTPedS. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 7(9), 1713-1715. [More Information]
Bray, P., Cornett, K., Estilow, T., Pareyson, D., Zuccarino, R., Skorupinska, M., Pipis, M., Sowden, J., Scherer, S., Reilly, M., Burns, J., et al (2020). Reliability of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth functional outcome measure. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 25(3), 288-291. [More Information]
Zuccarino, R., Prada, V., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Foscan, M., Robbiano, G., Pisciotta, C., Cornett, K., Shy, R., Schenone, A., Burns, J., et al (2020). Validation of the Italian version of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Pediatric Scale. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 25(2), 138-142. [More Information]

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2019

Estilow, T., Glanzman, A., Burns, J., Harrington, A., Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Bray, P., et al (2019). Balance Impairment in Pediatric Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Muscle and Nerve, 60(3), 242-249. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Wojciechowski, E., Sman, A., Walker, T., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J. (2019). Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the anterior compartment of the lower leg is a biomarker for weakness, disability and impaired gait in childhood Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Muscle and Nerve, 59(2), 213-217. [More Information]
Lin, T., Gibbons, P., Mudge, A., Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Burns, J. (2019). Surgical outcomes of cavovarus foot deformity in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Neuromuscular Disorders, 29(6), 427-436. [More Information]

2018

Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J. (2018). Established and novel measures of upper limb impairment in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A and Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency type 2. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 23(1), 29-35. [More Information]
Eichinger, K., Burns, J., Cornett, K., Bacon, C., Shepherd, M., Mountain, J., Sowden, J., Shy, R., Shy, M., Herrmann, D. (2018). The Charcot-Marie-Tooth Functional Outcome Measure (CMT-FOM). Neurology, 91(15), e1381-e1384. [More Information]
Kanhangad, M., Cornett, K., Brewer, M., Nicholson, G., Ryan, M., Smith, R., Subramanian, G., Young, H., Zuchner, S., Kennerson, M., Burns, J., Menezes, M. (2018). Unique clinical and neurophysiologic profile of a cohort of children with CMTX3. Neurology, 90(19), e1706-e1710. [More Information]

2017

Wojciechowski, E., Sman, A., Cornett, K., Raymond, J., Refshauge, K., Menezes, M., Burns, J. (2017). Gait patterns of children and adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Gait and Posture, 56, 89-94. [More Information]
Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Shy, R., Moroni, I., Pagliano, E., Pareyson, D., Estilow, T., Yum, S., Bhandari, T., Muntoni, F., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Burns, J., et al (2017). Natural history of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease during childhood. Annals of Neurology, 82(3), 353-359. [More Information]
Harwood, B., Scherer, J., Brown, R., Cornett, K., Kenno, K., Jakobi, J. (2017). Neuromuscular responses of the plantar flexors to whole-body vibration. Scandinavian Journal Of Medicine and Science In Sports, 27(12), 1569-1575. [More Information]
Burns, J., Sman, A., Cornett, K., Wojciechowski, E., Walker, T., Menezes, M., Mandarakas, M., Rose, K., Bray, P., Sampaio, H., Refshauge, K., Raymond, J., et al (2017). Safety and efficacy of progressive resistance exercise for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in children: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled trial. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 1(2), 106-113. [More Information]

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2016

Cornett, K., Menezes, M., Bray, P., Halaki, M., Shy, R., Yum, S., Estilow, T., Moroni, I., Foscan, M., Pagliano, E., Burns, J., et al (2016). Phenotypic variability of childhood Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. JAMA Neurology, 73(6), 645-651. [More Information]

2015

Cornett, K., North, K., Rose, K., Burns, J. (2015). Muscle weakness in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 57(8), 733-736. [More Information]

2014

Harwood, B., Cornett, K., Edwards, D., Brown, R., Jakobi, J. (2014). The effect of tendon vibration on motor unit activity, intermuscular coherence and force steadiness in the elbow flexors of males and females. Acta Physiologica, 211(4), 597-608. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

Clinical Trial Readiness, Cornett K, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (USA)/Research Grant
Establishing a global certification system for CMT clinical trial evaluators, Burns J, McKay M, Cornett K, Donlevy G, Muscular Dystrophy Association (USA)/MDA Research Infrastructure Grants (RIG)
Clinical trial readiness for children with CMT and related neuropathies, Cornett K, Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation/2024 Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) Fellowship Grant

2022

FMH Showcase Travel Award 2023, Cornett K, Faculty of Medicine and Health/FMH Showcase Travel Award 2023
CMTA funded The Inherited Neuropathy Consortium, Cornett K, Shy M, Menezes M, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (USA)/Research Grant

2014

Disability in Children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Burns J, Cornett K, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute/Research Support

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