Katy Vincent
GROUP MEMBERS
Miss Jennifer Brawn (DPhil student)
Dr Archana Ranganathan (Clinical Research Fellow)
Miss Lisa Buck (EndoPain/WIPSOx Research Nurse)
Miss Danielle Hewitt (EndoPain 2 Research Assistant)
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS
Prof Irene Tracey, Prof Charlotte Stagg & Dr Katie Warnaby, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Prof Philippa Saunders & Prof Andrew Horne, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh
Prof Tonia Vincent & Dr Fiona Watt, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
Prof Idhaliz Flores, Ponce Health Sciences University, Puerto Rico
Oxford University - Bayer HealthCare Translational Alliance in endometriosis and uterine fibroids
Katy Vincent
DPhil BSc MBBS MRCOG
Senior Pain Fellow, Associate Professor
- Principal Investigator
- Research Group Leader
- Locum Consultant Gynaecologist
Research groups
BIOGRAPHY
I graduated from King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London in 2000, having also obtained an intercalated BSc in Biomedical Sciences & Anatomy (1997). I completed my early clinical training in Cambridge and Worthing before obtaining a NTN in the Oxford Deanery in 2004. During this time I undertook a DPhil using fMRI to investigate the influence of hormones on pain processing in humans (Supervisors: Prof Irene Tracey, Prof Stephen Kennedy & Miss Jane Moore). I was appointed as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in 2009 and then as the NDOG Pain Fellow in 2014. Both these posts have allowed me to continue my research whilst completing my clinical training and developing specialist skills in the management of women with chronic pelvic pain.
RESEARCH
Chronic pain is common. In the UK alone approximately 7.8 million people live with chronic pain and, at any time, over a third of households contain someone in pain. Women suffer with almost all chronic pain conditions to a much greater extent than men. Additionally, they also suffer from female-specific pains; particularly in their pelvis, including period pain (dysmenorrhoea) and the pains associated with diseases such as endometriosis. My research focuses on the role that the central nervous system (CNS) plays in generating and maintaing pain in women. I am particularly interested in the interactions between pain and steroid hormones.
Key publications
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Brain imaging reveals that engagement of descending inhibitory pain pathways in healthy women in a low endogenous estradiol state varies with testosterone
Journal article
Vincent K. et al, (2013), Pain, 154, 515 - 524
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Pain scoring in endometriosis: entry criteria and outcome measures for clinical trials. Report from the Art and Science of Endometriosis meeting
Journal article
Vincent K. et al, (2010), Fertility and Sterility, 93, 62 - 67
Recent publications
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Development of a visual, patient-reported tool for assessing the multi-dimensional burden of endometriosis.
Journal article
As-Sanie S. et al, (2021), Curr Med Res Opin
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An update on the management of chronic pelvic pain in women.
Journal article
Vincent K. and Evans E., (2021), Anaesthesia, 76 Suppl 4, 96 - 107
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Developing consensus on core outcome domains for assessing effectiveness in perioperative pain management
Journal article
Pogatzki-Zahn EM. et al, (2021), Pain, Publish Ahead of Print
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Preclinical models of endometriosis and interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome
Journal article
Nunez-Badinez P. et al, (2021), Pain, Publish Ahead of Print
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Laparoscopic treatment of isolated superficial peritoneal endometriosis for managing chronic pelvic pain in women: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (ESPriT1).
Journal article
Whitaker LHR. et al, (2021), Pilot Feasibility Stud, 7