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Prior to taking on this role, Karen had been the Department’s Health Professions Advisor since 2003.

Karen completed the European Leadership Programme at the INSEAD graduate business school in 2004, and her masters degree in Consultation and the Organisation: a psychoanalytic approach in 2006.

Before joining the Department, Karen worked at the Directorate of Health and Social Care (DHSC) London. In this role, she developed primary care across the capital with a focus on allied health professionals.

Karen’s other previous roles include Associate Director for Primary Care, where she led a review of the community nursing service and allied services.

In 1996 she managed a large user consultation project in Tower Hamlets, east London, and went on to develop the Disability Options Team, an inter-disciplinary service for people with physical disability.

Karen qualified as a chartered physiotherapist in 1985 and went onto specialise in musculoskeletal therapy.

She became a Fellow of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine in 1994, and taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in both Orthopaedic Medicine and Hydrotherapy.