Current research and activities
Kate is a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine, specialising in Haematology. Beyond St Hugh’s, Kate is currently Junior Dean of University College where she is completing her Graduate-entry medical studies. Kate is a passionate medical educator who enjoys empowering students on their journey to becoming curious, confident, and compassionate learners.
Alongside her welfare and teaching roles, Kate is undertaking a post-doc in social care policy and economics at Green-Templeton College in partnership with the Care Initiative and Care Dorset, where her interests include health inequalities, the role of invisible womxn in informal care, and social care delivery in the Global South. Kate is also leading a national project in collaboration with the UKOSS, OUH and the NPEU evaluating the clinical profile of thrombophilias in pregnant women and their management. She is also leading a systematic meta-analysis of the use of Chest-Wall Perforator Flaps in locally advanced or recurrent breast cancer patients.
Collectively, Kate’s research has resulted in numerous publications, awards, and invitations to present her work at national platforms including BSH 2024. Outside of her research, Kate volunteers for The Oxford Refugee Health Initiative to help displaced families access healthcare and is a mock interviewer for the Oxford Graduate Entry Access scheme to promote equity in medical education.
Biography
Kate completed her DPhil in Medical Sciences (Oxford), with her research exploring the mechanistic basis for paediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Specifically, Kate’s work explored the pathological basis for the significant propensity that young children with Down syndrome have for developing ALL. This research entailed characterising the process of lymphoid cell development during human fetal development through in vitro functional and epi/genetic studies. Publishing her primary research in Nature, Kate was awarded the prestigious WIMM-UKRI Medical Research Council scholarship and won academic prizes worth over £120,000, including the Higgs Haematology prize (OCH).
Contact
Learn more about Kate on her department page and on Research Gate.
