Katherine began her career as a pre-registration pharmacist at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in 2012, remaining there for six years after qualifying. During this time, she held specialist roles in renal medicine, diabetes, and infectious diseases, before moving into a specialist pharmacist practitioner post in respiratory medicine, where she gained and applied her independent prescribing qualification. 

She then joined NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group as a Diabetes Pharmacist. In this role, she contributed to multidisciplinary team meetings to optimise diabetes medicines, working closely with GPs, diabetes teams, and secondary care diabetologists to improve patient outcomes, reduce secondary care referrals and clinic waiting times. She also undertook diabetes medication reviews and diabetes quality and safety reviews at GP practices in the south Birmingham area. 

Following this, Katherine became Lead Pharmacist Teacher Practitioner at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and Aston University. She organised and delivered clinical hospital placements and taught fourth-year MPharm students, while also working as a clinical pharmacist responsible for the training and development of post-registration pharmacists. 

Katherine joined the University of Birmingham’s School of Pharmacy in Summer 2023 as an Assistant Professor in Clinical Pharmacy. She teaches Applied Pharmacy Practice on the MPharm programme and medicines optimisation and clinical reasoning on the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (International). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education 

Academy and is a member of the steering committee for the Pharmacy Education Conference. 

She is passionate about widening participation in higher education and actively supports outreach initiatives through her academic role.