Dr Katie Ward

Dr Katie Ward is a Consultant Respiratory and General Physician at the Royal Free Hospital in the NHS. Her private practice is at Cleveland Clinic London and the Royal Free Private Patients Unit.

Dr Katie Ward attained her MBBS with distinction from Barts and the London School of Medicine in 2001.

She trained in respiratory and general medicine in South Thames (including King’s, Guy’s and St Thomas’) and at the Royal Brompton Hospital and became a consultant in 2016. She worked as a locum consultant at the Royal Free from 2016 to 2018 then became a substantive consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2018. After 6.5 years at Imperial she returned to the Royal Free.

She has a PhD in respiratory physiology and has published and collaborated on many peer reviewed research papers. Her research interests cover physiology of cough, breathlessness and respiratory failure in patients with respiratory and multisystem disease.

She is an honorary senior lecturer for Imperial College London School of Medicine.

Dr Ward participates in the general medical take (admitting patients via A & E) as well as working on the respiratory ward and she gives respiratory opinions for patients on the wards at the Trust.

She has NHS respiratory outpatient clinics at the Royal Free for interstitial lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis including connective tissue disease in the lungs). Dr Ward has a particular interest in multisystem disease affecting the lung and works closely with renal physicians and rheumatologists.

She works in the scleroderma unit at the Royal Free.

 Ms Catherine Helen Ward - GMC 6029259