Summary
Dr Kemp is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer with APMIC & the Pain Research Group. Clinically she works as a pain physician at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
Her main research interests are the long term, pain-related, outcomes associated with traumatic injury and critical illness. She is currently conducting the PainCRITICAL study, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, investigating potential biomarkers for the development of pain following critical care admission. She also works with the ADVANCE Study to understand pain-related outcomes from combat injury.
She was the joint project lead for the Pain in INTensive Care (PAINT) Study with Dr Helen Laycock and the Pan London Perioperative Audit and Research Network, and continues to investigate interventions to improve acute pain in the critically ill.
Her projects involve quantitative sensory testing, conditioned pain modulation, skin biopsy, cognitive function testing and patient-reported outcome measures.
Having completed an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Anaesthetics, Dr Kemp was appointed to the EU NeuroPain Grant to investigate pain in patients with HIV. She completed her doctoral thesis on chronic pain in HIV infection in 2019. In 2017 she was awarded the Clulow Award from the British Pain Society to investigate neuropathic pain in HTLV-1 infection with the National Centre for Human Retrovirology.
She was a founding member of PAINTRAIN, a collaboration of Pain Trainees interested in Pain Research, a previous Vice-Chair of the Research and Audit Federation of Trainees (RAFT) and a previous trainee member of the Management Committee of the IASP Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG).
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Kennedy DL, Kemp HI, Ridout D, et al., 2016, Reliability of Conditioned Pain Modulation: a Systematic Review, Pain, Vol:157, ISSN:1872-6623, Pages:2410-2419