KING'S HEALTH PARTNERS - Key Persons
Anna has joined KHP DEO as a project support officer to provide programme support to the DEO Programme Board and the One Team Oversight Group. She also supports and helps manage the Obesity Working Group with Professor Barbara McGowan, a Lancet Commission piece with Professor Francesco Rubino, and the HARPdoc project. Anna also works for KHP Women and Children's Health.
Anna has previously worked as research assistant at the University of Bath, where she investigated the efficacy of alcohol calorie labelling on perceived behaviour change. She has also worked on bank as a senior project support officer at RM Partners, a West London Cancer Alliance, where she supported the Research and Innovation workstream.
Job Titles:
- Business Support Officer for Education & Training
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Director of Education
Dr Claire Mallinson is a Consultant Anaesthetist specialising in anaesthesia for children's complex deformity surgery. She was Director of Medical Education (Deputy Medical Director) for 12 years at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest under and post graduate training institutions in the country. Claire is immediate past Chair of NACT, in which she contributed to national medical education reports. She is an active participant of HEE South London, often speaking and contributing to programmes, and has contributed to various national reports, including Safer Prescribing of cytotoxic drugs after raising a concern regarding Foundation doctors prescribing. She is also an Elected Member of Council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and is Chair of the CPD and education events including hosting over 1,100 participants in May 2022 at Anaesthesia 2022.
Gavin has a well-established reputation within the field of diabetes and obesity research built over the last 20 years and is an experienced leader within KCL. His current theme lead role focuses on research strategy within SCMMS, an area also identified as a priority for the DEO Clinical Academic Partnership. Gavin has also been a driving force behind the research and innovations workstream within DEO.
A key current interest of the Bewick lab is the role of the gut epithelium in the control of metabolism and the pathophysiology of diabetes and obesity. His lab is exploring the role of diet, the microbiome and immune signalling in shaping the gut epithelium in health and disease. The lab is also exploring how gut hormones can be targeted to prevent or treat Type 1 Diabetes. The lab used both pre-clinical and translational approaches encompassing methods ranging from organoid culture to single-cell transcriptomics to physiological studies.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of the Children
- Member of the Children 's Health Systems
Ingrid oversees the delivery of the Institute's vision and strategic plan to ensure we continue to improve outcomes locally, nationally and globally for women and children.
Ingrid is a qualified paediatrician and public health consultant. This makes Ingrid a children's doctor in a very broad sense, as she has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice and a population perspective. These aspects come together in her academic work, which focuses on children's health services, systems, and policy in the UK and European countries.
Ingrid is a member of the Children's Health Systems and Policy Research Group. The group is part of our Institute and King's College London's School of Life Course Sciences, Department of Women's and Children's Health.
Ingrid is also Director of the Children and Young People's Health Partnership in Lambeth and Southwark, where she has led the development and evaluation of a new model of children's health care. She is a consultant in child public health at Evelina London Children's Hospital and clinical senior lecturer in child public health at King's College London. Ingrid is co-chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health, and was awarded an OBE for services to children's health in 2016.
Job Titles:
- Consultant Integrated
- Joint Director of Clinical Strategy
As a Joint Director of Clinical Strategy, Dr Irem Patel leads on supporting engagement across King's Health Partners and our local boroughs to better use our data and partners' capabilities to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes, including through the Vital 5 programme.
Irem is a Consultant Integrated Respiratory Physician at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College London, the Chair of the South East London Respiratory Right Care Network and member of the London Respiratory Programme Board. Irem also co-leads the Respiratory Department and Public Health Committee at King's College Hospital, is the Trust's Smokefree lead and a Trustee of the Primary Care Respiratory Society.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Joint Director
Jozef co-leads on delivering the Institute's vision and strategic plan to ensure we continue to improve outcomes locally, regionally, nationally and globally for those with neurological conditions.
Jozef is a leading consultant neuroradiologist and former clinical director of the Regional Neurosciences Centre at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Joint Clinical Director
Dr Karen Breen is a consultant haematologist with a specialist interest in thrombosis and is based in the haemostasis and thrombosis centre and in the department of haematology.
She trained in haematology in Ireland and moved to the UK to conduct research in antiphospholipid syndrome leading to an MD.
Her main area of clinical interest is in thrombosis and in particular, in the field of antiphospholipid syndrome. She is currently involved in several clinical trials and in translational research in antiphospholipid syndrome.
Job Titles:
- King 's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust As a Consultant
- Senior Responsible Owner
Leonie is the Senior Responsible Owner for King's Health Partners Haematology.
Leonie has worked at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant obstetrician for 14 years. She has an interest in fetal medicine and high-risk obstetrics and is committed to both undergraduate and postgraduate education in this area.
Leonie has held a number of leadership roles at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, initially limited to women's health but in 2017 she became the Divisional Medical Director for urgent, planned and allied clinical services, before becoming Chief Medical Officer in 2020.
Leonie also has an interest in fetal monitoring education, undertaking this locally and for organisations such as the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists (RCOG). She also spent a short period in 2010 working in Ethiopia and is interested in global women's health. Leonie lectures for the RCOG and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Nandi leads the Institute's programme team and offers senior programme leadership to the Institute's strategic vision and clinical-academic strategy.
Nandi is a research management professional with 16 years of laboratory experience gained in academic and clinical organisations in the UK and France. Her primary area of expertise is infectious disease research. Since 2009, Nandi's focus has been on research coordination and project management, facilitating clinical and academic research, as well as industry interactions.
Job Titles:
- Primary Care Clinical Advisor
Naomi is a salaried GP in a busy Lambeth practice. She is passionate about General Practice and enjoys many aspects of this challenging and unpredictable specialty. She enjoys applying a holistic approach to her clinical practice and is particularly interested in improving the management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms. Her role is to improve social and primary care engagement with the Mind & Body programme.
Job Titles:
- Joint Director of Clinical Strategy
As a Joint Director of Clinical Strategy, Dr Rachna Chowla leads on King's Health Partners collaborations with primary care and the emerging primary care networks to improve outcomes for local people.
Rachna is a GP at Albion Street Group Practice in Rotherhithe and a Clinical Lead for Clinical Effectiveness Southwark, a Southwark-wide quality improvement programme. Rachna has an MBA from INSEAD, where she is also part of their Healthcare Management Initiative. She has previously worked at a health-tech start-up, in Strategy and Marketing for a large pharmaceutical company in Milan and with the King's Fund on Compassionate Leadership and Innovation. Rachna also conducted research for the Health Foundation on innovation in healthcare.
Job Titles:
- Value Based Healthcare Mind & Body Lead
Rumina is the Value Based Healthcare Mind and Body Lead at King's Health Partners. She focuses on improving patient outcomes and integrating mental and physical healthcare. She is a Clinical Psychologist by training, and has extensive experience of working with patients with severe mental illness and transforming NHS services.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Director
- Clinical Director of the Mind & Body Programme at King 's Health Partners
Sean is Clinical Director of the Mind & Body Programme at King's Health Partners; a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Managing Director of Maudsley Learning. Sean feels strongly that better integration of mental and physical healthcare provision requires evidence-based service transformation; high quality, meaningful education and training, and the harnessing of staff, patient and carer enthusiasm to bring about culture change in all our organisations.
Job Titles:
- Joint Director
- Psychiatrist and Clinical Director for the Forensic Service at the South London
Dr Lade Smith is a consultant psychiatrist and Clinical Director for the Forensic Service at the South London and Maudsley NHS FT. She is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and Clinical Director at the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH).
She was awarded a CBE for services to forensic psychiatric intensive care in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2019.She is Joint Presidential Lead for Race Equality at the Royal College of Psychiatrist. Alongside significant leadership experience, she has a strong academic focus and continues to do research at the IoPPN. She is also a clinical supervisor and trainer for junior psychiatrists from Guy's, King's, and St Thomas' (GKT) Medical School, and teaches regularly on the DClinpsy and MRCPsych courses.
Shubulade was voted a BMA pioneering consultant and nominated as a Woman of the Year in 2002 for the development of her ‘One Stop Shop', a medication review and physical monitoring clinic for people with mental health problems. She is known nationally and internationally for her work in the hormonal and reproductive effects of antipsychotic medications. Shubulade was responsible for some of the key sections in the influential ‘The Abandoned Illness' report of the Schizophrenia Commission. More recently she was a key contributor to the Independent Mental Health Act Review, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely. She led the Criminal Justice System topic group, and sat on the core working group, evidence review group and the African and Caribbean working group.
Sophie is a Diabetes Consultant and Clinical Lead for Diabetes at King's College Hospital NHS FT, alongside her role as Deputy Clinical Director of Diabetes at the South London Health Innovation Network (HIN). Her role within the HIN gives her insight into current innovation and implementation priorities across South London. She has leadership roles within the NHSEI London clinical network for diabetes and has recently taken on national responsibilities, including chairing a Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) diabetes at the front door working group and leading a project for NHS England looking at user experience and outcomes in diabetes.
Her previous research investigated reasons for inequalities in uptake of self-management education in people with type 1 diabetes in South London. The findings of this PhD supported a successful application for NHS England transformation funding and the subsequent development and implementation of a diabetes booking platform across South London.
Sophie is a research active clinician with a strong understanding of the priorities within KCL, and a passion for addressing health inequalities in service access and delivery. Her specific interests are around digital health, improvement and implementation, self-care, patient education and empowerment, including peer- support strategies. With specific clinical interest in Type 1 diabetes, diabetes and eating disorders and diabetes in pregnancy.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Director of the London Diabetes Clinical Network
- Joint Director
Stephen in a clinical leader across diabetes, endocrinology and obesity at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (NHS FT) and has a strong understanding of the local system, having previously been a consultant at King's College Hospital and an academic lecturer and academic research fellow in Diabetes & Endocrinology.
Stephen's clinical work focussed on looking after those with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who need extra specialist input and cares from people in internal medicine in an inpatient setting. Stephen is also a Clinical Director at the Trust and manages two busy directorates which focus on both outpatient and inpatient care, as well as a number of support functions.
Stephen is also the Clinical Director of the London Diabetes Clinical Network (NHS England, London Region), overseeing transformation and improvement across the capital to improve outcomes and reduce variation in care for people with diabetes. He was previously also the diabetes and long-term condition lead for Healthcare for London.
Susan graduated from King's College London, before becoming a consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in 2010. At the Trust she is now a clinical director, clinical lead and an internationally recognised expert in obstetric haematology and transfusion medicine.
Susan's wider roles include: clinical lead for the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership South East London Pathology Programme and member of both the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Transfusion guideline group and Quality Standards and British Society for Haematology Transfusion Task Force. Susan also sits on the UK Blood Services' Standing Advisory Committee where she helps improve blood for patients and analyses adverse outcomes, providing recommendations through the National haemovigilance scheme.
Job Titles:
- Education & Training Project Support Officer - Interim
Evgenia initially joined KHP Women and Children's Health in November 2021 as maternity cover to support and facilitate Education and Training programmes. Since January 2022 she has also joined KHP DEO assisting the team with One Team Education & Training priority areas. Evgenia's professional experience sits predominantly in Higher Education with various responsibilities across Academic Development and Services, Admissions, PG, PhD and Research Support and Quality Assurance. As a recent MA Advance Theatre Practice graduate, Evgenia also brings a creative background and experience in production to DEO.
Isabel joined the KHP DEO team in November 2022 as a Programme Manager. She is the team lead for obesity and programme team lead for the One Team Education and Training workstream. She also contributes to the KHP work on Population Health from an obesity perspective.
Before joining KHP, Isabel completed the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme (GMTS) and held multiple operational and strategic roles in a range of settings. She has experience of primary care commissioning at place and national levels and has led on projects relating to health inequalities, COVID-19 vaccinations, and remote monitoring. At system level, Isabel worked as an Integrated Care System Programme Development Manager, overseeing the successful merging of three Clinical Commissioning Groups into an Integrated Care Board, and producing an organisational strategy for engaging with people and communities.
Isabel also contributed to quality improvement projects during her time in a Big four consulting firm and led transformation initiatives alongside her operational management responsibilities as Service Support Manager at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Registered Nurse
Jake joined the team in July 2022 and is managing projects across both the Neurosciences and DEO Clinical Academic Partnerships. He is supporting the Research and Innovation workstream within the One Team programme, the Diabetes workstream in the international Health Outcomes Observatory (H20) project, and KHP Patient & Public Engagement initiative.
Jake is a registered nurse and has management experience across NHS and private healthcare settings, including acting as a CQC Registered Manager. He has delivered operational projects including development of training and clinical competency practices, implementing electronic patient records, authoring published patient resources and improving referral triage processes in the community.
Prior to joining KHP, Jake was a Lead Analyst on the Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Apollo Programme Deployment Team and led the electronic health record configuration strategy for adult and children's community nursing services across Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts
Jennifer started her career as a Unilever graduate trainee and joined the NHS soon after. She has worked in a number of large teaching hospitals, including University College London Hospital and St. George's University Hospital, and in a number of operational, commercial and programme roles. This includes being part of creating, transforming and running South West London Pathology. Prior to joining King's Health Partners, Jennifer was the Associate Director, Commercial, at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of King 's Health Partners
Jill Lockett is Managing Director of King's Health Partners. Jill works across the full King's Health Partners agenda to deliver our strategy and oversees our local and international programmes, tracks progress and maintains our culture of partnership. Jill is a member of the King's Health Partners Joint Boards, the CEOs' Group and the Executive.
Jill joined King's Health Partners in 2012, as Director of Performance and Delivery. Prior to this, Jill was Director of the Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Clinical Academic Group within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Jill's other previous roles include: National Director of Cancer Waits and Heart Team Capital Programme at the Department of Health, Director of Commissioning in a London Primary Care Trust, and Chief Executive of a primary care organisation.
Jill is also Chair of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, supporting the reduction of mental health stigma and maintaining public access to a large collection of mental health art and artefacts.
Job Titles:
- Director of Partnerships and Programmes for King 's Health Partners
Joseph Casey is Director of Partnerships and Programmes for King's Health Partners. Joseph is supporting the development of our Clinical Academic Groups, and leads our programme work on value based healthcare and informatics.
Prior to joining, Joseph worked in management consultancy, initially with private sector clients before focusing on supporting NHS organisations and delivering training in central government departments. Joseph started his career in Brussels in social policy research.
Juliana joined KHP DEO as a Project Manager in July 2022. Her role entails providing support and management to several projects, including supporting the co-development of a Mental Health Strategy for Diabetes. This includes working alongside our partners to set out our priorities for the next three years. Juliana is also the Communications Lead for DEO and is responsible for producing the quarterly newsletter and sharing DEO news and achievements on social media.
Juliana has previous experience working in both the private and public health sectors. Prior to joining DEO, Juliana worked for KHP as an Executive Assistant for the Neurosciences and Haematology Clinical Academic Partnerships. She has also worked in medical assistance on a government contract managing the healthcare of diplomats posted overseas.
Juliana is also a Project Manager for KHP Neurosciences Clinical Academic Partnership.
Karen leads the Institute's programme team. She has more than 25 years of experience working in operational management, strategic planning and programme management within the NHS. This includes running complex, large scale change programmes across organisational boundaries to improve services and outcomes for patients.
Having graduated with a History degree, Kate joined the Civil Service in 2009. After a short stint in the Department of Transport, Kate joined the Department of Health. She was most recently Senior Team Lead on the Department of Health's Efficiency Programme before leaving the Civil Service to join the NHS to lead the Mind & Body Programme.
Professor Matthew Hotopf is Academic Director of the Mind & Body Programme at King's Health Partners.
Prof Hotopf is Vice Dean of Research at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He is a Professor of General Hospital Psychiatry, a consultant liaison psychiatrist and is also Director of The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). His main area of research is in the grey area between medicine and psychiatry, exploring the interaction between mental and physical health.
Job Titles:
- Programme Director ( Maternity Cover )
Michelle joined DEO as our (interim) Programme Director in May 2022 where she leads DEO's programme to ensure the delivery of its overall vision and mission.
Michelle has more than 25 years' experience as a clinician and healthcare manager, 20 of these being within the private and public healthcare market within the UK. She has specialist expertise in strategic business and relationship development, clinician engagement and consultant relations, and strategic partner joint ventures of various structures. She has been instrumental in completing complex healthcare projects including tender processes, bid management and healthcare acquisitions and assimilation or transition of new facilities into existing organisations. Specifically, she has extensive experience of the development and implementation of successful private and NHS and other commercial joint ventures.
Alongside her role as DEO Programme Director, Michelle is also the current Director for Partnerships and Programmes for King's Health Partners.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at South London
- Joint Director
Helen is Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at South London and the Maudsley NHS FT. She is also an active member of the research and development team at the Trust which works to ensure the co-ordination and delivery of several clinical research studies within the Trust, including clinical, academic, and commercial research.
Helen has worked across acute, mental health and community services, clinically and within leadership positions at NHS Foundation Trusts. Prior to her current role, Helen was the Divisional Director of Nursing responsible for Acute and Emergency Medicine, Medical speciality Inpatient Services, Palliative care, and Cancer services, as well as a diverse number of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Advanced Nurse and Assistant Clinical Practitioners at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
She is currently responsible for the development and maintenance of professional standards across the Trust, contributing to strategic planning for the Trust as part of the Senior Nursing Leadership Team. Helen has experience in the delivery of both current and previous Trust's strategic ambitions and quality priorities, including authoring and delivering Chelsea and Westminster 2020 - 2025 dementia clinical strategy. She co-led on the rapid redesign of non-elective patient pathways during the COVID-19 pandemic, having recognised a need for significant safe-service redesign. Helen leads on behalf of Nursing for the delivery of the South London and Maudsley NHS FT for Physical Health Care has a strong understanding of the local population but is also well connected with approaches to quality nationally.
Natalia started her career in consulting and has since worked in the NHS primarily driving strategy development at a service, organisation and national level at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England/Improvement. She works across a number of Mind & Body projects and has an overview of the wider Programme.
Job Titles:
- Joint Director
- Professor of Clinical Endocrinology at King 's College London
Emma is a Professor of Clinical Endocrinology at King's College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS FT. She is a specialist in endocrinology, with special interest in bone and neuroendocrine disease. She also holds roles as Professor of Medicine (honorary) at the University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor within the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology.
Emma is a highly experienced researcher and clinical research leader, who has led on both basic and clinical research studies across diverse areas of endocrinology. She has held many elected leadership positions within professional societies, contributing to leadership and governance nationally and internationally, previously serving as President of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, and currently serving as Councillor for the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and Associate Editor for the Journal for Bone and Mineral Research and Endocrine Reviews.
Emma's main area of work is Bone and skeletal dysplasias, and common and rare genetics. Her research spans the genetics of many endocrine disorders, from common variant to rare monogenic diseases, publishing multiple high-impact papers interrogating genetics of osteoporosis and skeletal dysplasias, MODY [maturity- onset diabetes of the young], and phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas. Prof Duncan's practical experience in gene mapping includes genetic epidemiology, linkage, genome-wide association studies, and massively parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies; and she has played a pioneering role in the translation of genetic technologies (such as high- throughput microarray genotyping and massively parallel sequencing) into clinical practice. Recently, she has contributed to COVID-19 research, particularly COVID-19 in children; and she co-leads the KCL COVID Symptom Study Biobank with particular focus on interrogating the genetics of the post-COVID syndrome.
Mark is jointly responsible for leading the Institute's strategic vision and strategy. He is also the Head of School, Neuroscience, which forms part of the world-renowned Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience within King's College London. His research focuses on individuals with epilepsy and the reasons why seizures start.
Mark is also a practicing neurologist and regularly holds epilepsy clinics at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Director for Haematology and Pathology at King 's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Joint Clinical Director
Roopen is Clinical Director for Haematology and Pathology at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. His other roles include: Director of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Thrombosis Centre; Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis at King's College London and Director of the National VTE Exemplar Centres Network in England.
Roopen trained at the University of Oxford and King's College London. His main interests are venous thromboembolism, thrombophilia, and women's health. He is passionate about thrombosis research and advancing safety and quality of care through innovative and patient-centric approaches.
Rachel has a PhD in molecular biology and a background in international health policy. As part of the Mind & Body team, Rachel leads the patient and public engagement activities, and the education and training programme. Rachel also has responsibility for the Champions Network.
Job Titles:
- Health Nurse
- Lead Nurse, IMPHS
Ray is a registered mental health nurse. He trained at King's College London on their under graduate nursing degree programme, and since qualifying has worked at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in a variety of nursing roles. In his current role, Ray uses his clinicalexperience to support implementation of IMPHS initiatives in practice; he also has responsibilities for navigating the clinical systems - auditing and service evaluation.
Rosie joined the KHP Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity team in September 2022 as a programme manager. She is the team lead for diabetes and programme management lead for the One Team Clinical Transformation workstream. She also works on the integration of mental and physical health in the context of diabetes.
Prior to joining the team, Rosie completed the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, working as a service manager and then as project manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , and as an executive officer at the Department of Health and Social Care. She has delivered a range of operational and strategic projects. These include the introduction of video appointments, the set-up of COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinics, and the introduction of a new paediatric complex obesity service.
She is a registered PRINCE2 Practitioner and has recently completed a masters in the Control of Infectious Diseases.
Ross is posted with KHP as part of the civil service project delivery fast stream. His first role on the fast stream was a 12-month posting in HMRC, working as a project manager on a Data Transformation programme. Prior to starting the fast stream, Ross completed a degree in Business and Economics. As part of a year in industry during degree, he had a role as a procurement analyst in the private sector.
Ross has been posted to KHP on a six-month secondment as a project manager. He will be leading and supporting on a range of projects across DEO. Some examples include the creation of a CBT diabetes module at KCL and the Diabetes Transition & Young Adult Care Pilot in Southwark and Lambeth.
Sofie joined King's Health Partners Diabetes, Endocrinology & Obesity (KHP DEO) in July 2022, taking on the role of Programme Lead.
Sofie is experienced in strategic planning, national policy development, and service commissioning and delivery, having worked within health at a local and national level and in both UK and US health systems. She has spent time working as the National Programme Lead for childhood obesity and the National Child Measurement Programme at the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (formerly Public Health England) within the Department of Health and Social Care, and as the Regional Strategic Lead for obesity, nutrition, and prediabetes at Southern California Kaiser Permanente.
Sofie is an experienced public health professional and a Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RNutr) with the Association for Nutrition.
Sophie graduated with a BSc in Psychology and began working in the NHS in 2010. Having worked in health and social care commissioning and public health, Sophie now leads on a range of Mind & Body projects including Intellectual Disabilities, Staff Health and Wellbeing, and developing the Mind & Body offer for the Kings Health Partners Institutes. Sophie also has responsibilities for programme evaluation, data and analytics and research.