Speakers

Katy graduated from King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London in 2000, having also obtained an intercalated BSc in Biomedical Sciences & Anatomy (1997). She completed her postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Oxford Deanery, obtaining CCT in 2015. She undertook a DPhil in Prof Irene Tracey's Pain Imaging Neuroscience group investigating the influence of hormones on pain processing in humans and continued her post-doctoral work as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and then as the Senior Pain Fellow in the department. She was appointed as the Senior Fellow in Pain in Women in 2019. She leads the Pain in Women research group, who use a variety of methodologies to explore mechanisms generating and maintaining pain in women. Her clinical work focusses on chronic pelvic pain, particularly that in association with endometriosis and in teenagers/young women.