Kate is a consultant neurologist in Sunderland where she is currently MS lead. Kate studied medicine in Bristol and stayed in the southwest to do her medical training in Bristol and Exeter moving to London to do neurology jobs at St Georges and The Royal Free. She made the move to the North East to undertake neurology specialist training. She is local PI for a number of observational studies. She is a member of the ABN quality committee and one of the medical advisors for the MS Society.