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Professor Katy Vincent is Professor of Gynaecological Pain and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. She leads the Pain in Women research group, focusing on mechanisms generating and maintaining pain in women, with particular emphasis on endometriosis-associated pain and adolescent period pain. Her work bridges clinical practice at the John Radcliffe Hospital's Women's Centre with translational neuroscience research.
Her research interests center on the gender pain gap, chronic pelvic pain, hormonal influences on pain processing, and the development of chronic pain from adolescent period pain. She employs diverse methodologies including neuroimaging, clinical trials, and translational models to investigate female-specific pain conditions. Her work addresses how women suffer disproportionately from chronic pain conditions, particularly pelvic pain including dysmenorrhoea and endometriosis-related pain.
Professor Vincent's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on endometriosis pain mechanisms, translational research models, pain assessment methodologies, and clinical management approaches. Her work spans basic science to clinical implementation, with significant contributions to understanding pain pathways, developing outcome measures, and improving patient care pathways for women with chronic pelvic pain.
- President of the RCOG Blair Bell Research Committee
- Immediate Past Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) SIG on Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
- Medical Advisory Panel member for Endometriosis UK
She supervises multiple DPhil students and post-doctoral researchers while collaborating with institutions worldwide including the University of Edinburgh, University of Michigan, Imperial College London, and University of Muenster. Her leadership extends to major collaborative projects including the IMI-2 funded TRiPP project and the APDP RoADPain project investigating adolescent period pain's role in chronic pain development.
Her clinical work focuses on chronic pelvic pain, particularly in association with endometriosis and in teenagers/younger women, delivered through NHS pelvic pain clinics at the John Radcliffe Hospital. She also supports the NHS adolescent gynaecology clinic, emphasizing optimization of quality of life and reproductive health during adolescence.
