Kate Prior

Surgeon Captain Kate Prior is a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy and at King’s College Hospital in London. Her particular interests are the provision anaesthesia for the multiply injured patient and leading the trauma team in the initial assessment, resuscitation and management of both adult and paediatric trauma patients. She is also the Medical Lead for Resuscitation Services and an Associate Director of Medical Education. She was the recipient of the Medical Women’s Federation Centenary Award for an Established Doctor and is a Member of the Order of St John in recognition of her work in Afghanistan. In her thirty-one years in the Royal Navy, her operational military role has taken her to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, working in the UN in South Sudan and to sea with the aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH as the Clinical Director for the Role 2 Afloat Surgical Team. Outside of the hospital, she provides medical care at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and mass sporting events in the UK. She is a keen theatregoer, tries not the get killed cycling to work and indulges in holidays, shoes and handbags.