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Professor Katherine E Sleeman is the Laing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care at King’s College London, affiliated with the Cicely Saunders Institute and the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. She also serves as Honorary Consultant at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust and leads the Integrated Academic Trainee (IAT) programme in palliative medicine. Her research focuses on improving end-of-life care for people with dementia, using routinely collected healthcare data to understand care patterns and address health inequalities. She holds an NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship (2016-2021) and has led projects using databases like CRIS and CPRD. Her work bridges clinical practice, policy, and global health equity.
Education: BSc (1st class) in Developmental Biology from University College London (1996), MBBS (1999), PhD in Stem Cell Activity (2007), and extensive clinical training in oncology and general medicine.
Research Interests: Palliative care policy, data-driven healthcare improvements, dementia care pathways, and reducing inequalities in end-of-life care. Key projects include the EMBED-Care programme to reform dementia care and the CovPall initiative studying pandemic impacts on palliative services.
Recent Work: Her 2025 articles address digital advance care planning, global palliative care inequities, and data-driven policy. Awards include the 2019 Women in Palliative Care Award and a 2020 Churchill Fellowship.
Grants/Leadership: Leads NIHR-funded projects and collaborates internationally. Active in policy advocacy, including parliamentary engagements on palliative care equity.
Labs/Teams: Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute’s research centre, overseeing global health palliative care initiatives and data analytics teams.
