Dr Katie Ward

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.

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 acute respiratory unit and gives respiratory opinions for patients on the wards at the Trust. She performs diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy and pleural procedures.

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.