Katherine Henderson (physician)

Henderson completed her medical degree at Robinson College, Cambridge.^[1] She moved to Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry for her specialty training, where she worked in clinical medicine.^{[citation needed]}

Henderson started her career at the Homerton University Hospital. In 2006, she joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She was appointed Clinical Lead in 2012.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, Henderson was the first woman elected President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.^[2][3] She planned to use her presidency to make emergency medicine a sustainable career, and ensure that no patients had to experience long wait times.^[2] Her presidency coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, and Henderson had to switch her focus to the ongoing crisis.^[4][5] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the National Health Service in the 2021 Birthday Honours.^[1] Later that year, Henderson highlighted the experience that healthcare workers were facing during the pandemic.^[5] She explained that staff had been violently threatened, and that some senior nurses wore body cameras to record incidents.^[5]