Kate Polling is Clinical co-lead of the Clinical Informatics Service. The CIS has received an infrastructure grant from Maudsley Charity to develop tools which draw on the clinical informatics expertise within the BRC and enable front-line clinicians and service planners to better use their clinical data to identify inequalities and unmet need. Over the next two years the service will be transitioning the current VIEWER proof-of-concept visualisations to an operational service within SLaM, taking a user-led design approach involving front-line clinicians.   

Kate came to SLaM and KCL in 2009 as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. She completed a PhD with Professor Stephani Hatch in the Health Inequalities Research Group and is now an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine. Her research has used mixed methods, including work with clinical data in CRIS, to understand inequalities in self-harm and emergency department presentations in London.  She works clinically as a consultant liaison psychiatrist in SLaM.