Kate Nambiar, MD, PhD

Biography

Dr Kate Nambiar is a sexual health and gender identity physician who has worked in the UK National Health Service since 1999. She trained at Oxford and Imperial College, and completed a PhD in Bioinformatics and Immunology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Dr. Nambiar began her career working in sexual health & HIV and has spent the largest proportion of that time based in Brighton, England. Much of her work has focussed on trans healthcare, and in 2012 she co-founded Clinic T, a sexual health service for trans and gender diverse people. She trained as a gender specialist at the Tavistock & Portman Gender Identity Clinic in London and now works as a Gender Clinician and Endocrinology Specialist at the Welsh Gender Service in Cardiff and as the medical director for Terrence Higgins Trust.  She has been extensively involved in activism for the trans community and remains passionately committed to advocating for better healthcare for trans people.

Kate Nambiar
Position
Terrence Higgins Trust, United Kingdom