Katy Burke

MBBS MA (Cantab) MRCP

Clinical Researcher

I am a Clinical Researcher working with the Psychological Medicine Research Group. I am particularly interested in investigating ways to improve the psychological care of medical patients. Before training in medicine I completed my first undergraduate degree in music, and am now a specialty trainee in Palliative Medicine in Oxford.

Recent publications

Is improvement in comorbid major depression associated with longer survival in people with cancer? A long-term follow-up of participants in the SMaRT Oncology-2 and 3 trials
Journal article

Mulick A. et al, (2019), Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 116, 106 - 112
The Prevalence of Depression in General Hospital Inpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interview Based Studies
Journal article

Walker J. et al, (2018), Psychological Medicine
Does depression treatment improve the survival of depressed cancer patients? A long-term follow-up of participants in the SMaRT Oncology-2 and 3 trials.
Journal article

Mulick A. et al, (2018), The Lancet Psychiatry
Linked symptom monitoring and depression treatment programmes for specialist cancer services: Protocol for a mixed-methods implementation study
Journal article

Wanat M. et al, BMJ Open
Screening Medical Patients for Depression: Lessons from a National Program in Cancer Clinics
Journal article

Walker J. et al, Psychosomatics