Dr Kimberley Kendall
Specialty Lead for Mental Health / WCAT Clinical Fellow
Dr Kendall is a clinical academic psychiatrist based at Cardiff University. Her overarching interests are psychiatric genetics and the potential for big data to improve patient care. Dr Kendall conducts research to establish how psychiatric genetic variants influence clinical presentation and functioning. She is passionate about translating research findings into clinical practice and puts this into action in the All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service, the UK’s first dedicated psychiatric genomics clinic. In addition to her research, Dr Kendall does clinical work in early intervention in psychosis.
Publications
Kendall et al, 2023. The translation of psychiatric genetic findings to the clinic. Schizophrenia Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2023.10.024.
Kendall K et al. 2020. Impact of schizophrenia genetic liability on the association between schizophrenia and physical illness: a data linkage study. BJPsych Open 6(6), E139. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2020.42.
Kendall et al. 2019. Association of Rare Copy Number Variants With Risk of Depression. JAMA Psychiatry 76(8):818–825. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0566.
Kendall K et al. 2019. Cognitive performance and functional outcomes of carriers of pathogenic CNVs: analysis of UK Biobank. British Journal of Psychiatry 214(5), 297–304, doi: 10.1192/bjp.2018.30.
In the news:
Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)