The King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) offers advice, best practice and information on navigating a clinical academic career. We design and deliver bespoke training and development for all health professionals across all stages of their research careers to support our ambition to build a thriving pipeline of research-active health professionals.

Health professional researchers need to balance the pressures of clinical service, academic training and research. The KCATO will provide trainee-centred guidance to navigate the career journey so that King’s clinical academics emerge as highly skilled clinicians with the ability to deliver globally impactful research, as well as being inspirational role models.

The administration of the King's College London NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme has moved under KCATO. If you have any queries on the IAT Programme, please use the same email as before IATadmin@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s College London hosts a thriving community of research-active health professionals, many of whom are engaged in a formal period of research such as a DClinPsy, MPhil, MRes, PhD, or a pre/post-doctoral research position.

Health professionals are also sometimes known as clinical academic researchers, and we will occasionally make use of this and related terms to refer to pre-doctoral, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers on a clinical academic pathway at King's.

Health Professionals include, but are not limited to, medical doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, and other health professionals such as clinical psychologists and pharmacists.

This page provides information, resources, and events for this community, provided via the King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) and other King’s departments.

Further information and resources on training, development, funding and careers are available on the newly launched KCATO SharePoint site.

For colleagues in any of the King's Health Partners who wish to access the SharePoint site, please request access via this form.

KCATO Director	Prof Frances Williams
KCATO Deputy Director	Dr Rina Dutta
KCATO Deputy Director	Prof Catherine Evans
KCATO Manager	Dr Gursimran Oberoi
KCATO Manager	Ms Nora Park
IAT Programme Officer	Ms Kasia Bojko
IAT Programme Officer	Ms Sheila Adeyemi
Associate Director (Doctoral Environment and Development)	Dr Amy Moore

You can also receive regular updates and find out more by following us on Twitter and connecting with us on LinkedIn.

Further information and resources on training, development, funding and careers are available on the newly launched KCATO Hub on SharePoint.

You can reach us at kcato@kcl.ac.uk and sign up to our newsletter. Please also connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

For colleagues in any of the King's Health Partners who wish to access the SharePoint site, please request access via this form.

Health professional researchers will receive quarterly newsletters from the King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO). If you have not received the newsletters and would like to be added to our mailing lists, please sign up to our newsletter.

You can also receive regular updates and find out more by following us on Twitter and connecting with us on LinkedIn.

All doctoral research students in the Health Faculties at King’s enrolled on a DClinPsy, MPhil, MRes, PhD, or other PGR degree, automatically receive monthly email updates from the Health Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC).

However, if you are a pre- or post-doctoral research-active Health Professional, for example an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF or PCAF), Academic Clinical Lecturer (ACL), Clinical Research Fellow, or similar, at King's, and would like to be added to the HSDTC mailing lists, please email hs-dtc@kcl.ac.uk.

At King’s we train the future generation of Health Professional research leaders across many disciplines.

Here, we introduce you to some of our Health Professional Researchers at King’s. We interviewed them to get an insight into their journey into a PhD and how they manage dual careers.

• Captain Lawen Karim - Vascular Surgeon
• Dr Sheila McSweeney - Dermatologist
• Professor Bijan Modarai - Consultant Vascular Surgeon
• Tootie Bueser - British Heart Foundation Cardiac Genetic Nurse
• Dr Graham Blackman - Training in General Adult Psychiatry
• Peter Chessum - Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner
• Freya Brown - Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse