Our people

A small partnership team helps coordinate and support activity right across the partnership. We work very closely with colleagues in partner organisations to drive delivery of our shared mission.

We provide strategic leadership to our core programmes of work, develop innovative and cross-cutting projects to help deliver our strategic priorities and share our partnership's ambition and success.

Find out more about the staff and students across King’s Health Partners through the KHPeople series, which highlights some of the most exciting work, progress and collaboration across the partnership.

Governance

King’s Health Partners is governed and supported by these groups:

The KHP Executive Group drives and challenges progress and delivery.  

It is responsible for ensuring we make the most of our assets and links as a partnership. It offers King’s Health Partners oversight of the pace and development of all of major programmes and activities.  

The KHP Executive meets quarterly and is formed of representatives from across King’s Health Partners including medical directors, strategy directors, site chief executives and school deans. Attendance from King’s Health Partners includes the Executive Director, Director of Partnerships and Operations, and Director of Strategy.  

Membership also includes the Chief Executive of Health Innovation Network South London and Director of NIHR Maudsley BRC.

To drive the development, impact and operation of Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), CAG Leaders meetings occur bi-monthly. 

The programmes and partnerships which form their own programme boards to drive operational delivery include, KHP Neurosciences, KHP Haematology, KHP Women and Children’s Health, KHP Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity, KHP Cardiovascular and Respiratory Partnership Programme, and KHP Mind & Body.

Leadership team

  • Prof Lord Kakkar, Independent Chair, King’s Health Partners 
  • Prof Graham Lord, Executive Director, King’s Health Partners
  • Prof Matthew Hotopf, Deputy Executive Director, King's Health Partners
  • Dr Catherine French, Director of Strategy, King’s Health Partners
  • Prof Josip Car, Director of Population Health at King's Health Partners 
  • Joseph Casey, Director of Partnerships and Operations, King’s Health Partners 
  • Dr Rachna Chowla, Joint Director of Clinical Strategy, King’s Health Partners
  • Prof Prokar DasGupta, Professor of Surgery, King’s Health Partners 
  • Dr Claire Mallinson, Director of Education, King’s Health Partners 
  • Prof Grainne McAlonan, Director, NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
  • Prof Phil Newsome, Director of the King’s Health Partners Centre for Translational Medicine 
  • Prof Seb Ourselin, Director for Digital Health and Data Sciences at King's Health Partners
  • Dr Irem Patel, Joint Director of Clinical Strategy, King’s Health Partners