Professional background
Katy Burke is a consultant physician in palliative medicine at UCLH. Katy completed her first undergraduate degree in music at the University of Cambridge before studying medicine at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. She trained in palliative medicine in Oxford, during which time she also worked as a clinical researcher with the Psychological Medicine Research Group in the Department of Psychiatry.
Katy works with both the inpatient palliative care team and also the Enhanced Supportive Care (ESC) team, who work with patients early in their cancer journey to help prevent and manage the adverse physical and psychological effects of cancer and its treatment.
Specialties
Research interests
Her research interests include doctors’ experiences of discussing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and improving the psychological care of medical patients.
Publications
- Magill, N., White, I. R., Walker, J., Burke, K., Toynbee, M., van Niekerk, M., ... & Frost, C. (2020). The HOME Study: Statistical and economic analysis plan for a randomised controlled trial comparing the addition of Proactive Psychological Medicine to usual care, with usual care alone, on the time spent in hospital by older acute hospital inpatients. Trials, 21, 1-14.
- Walker, J., Burke, K., Toynbee, M., van Niekerk, M., Frost, C., Magill, N., . . . Sharpe, M. (2019). The HOME Study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial comparing the addition of Proactive Psychological Medicine to usual care, with usual care alone, on the time spent in hospital by older acute hospital inpatients. Trials, 20(1), 483.
- Mulick, A., Walker, J., Puntis, S., Symeonides, S., Gourley, C., Burke, K., . . . Sharpe, M. (2019). Is improvement in comorbid major depression associated with longer survival in people with cancer? A longterm follow-up of participants in the SMaRT Oncology-2 and 3 trials. J Psychosom Res, 116, 106-112.
- Mulick, A., Walker, J., Puntis, S., Burke, K., Symeonides, S., Gourley, C., . . . Sharpe, M. (2018). Does depression treatment improve the survival of depressed patients with cancer? A long-term follow-up of participants in the SMaRT Oncology-2 and 3 trials. The Lancet Psychiatry, 5(4), 321-326.
- Walker, J., Burke, K., Wanat, M., Fisher, R., Fielding, J., Mulick, A., . . . Sharpe, M. (2018). The prevalence of depression in general hospital inpatients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of interview-based studies. Psychological Medicine, 1-14.
- Wanat, M., Walker, J., Burke, K., Sevdalis, N., Richardson, A., Mulick, A., . . . Sharpe, M. (2017). Linked symptom monitoring and depression treatment programmes for specialist cancer services: protocol for a mixed-methods implementation study. BMJ Open, 7(6), e016186.
- Walker, J., Wanat, M., Fielding, J., Martin, P., Petit, A., Burke, K., & Sharpe, M. (2017). Screening Medical Patients for Depression: Lessons From a National Program in Cancer Clinics. Psychosomatics, 58(3), 274- 280.