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Heidi  Lempp

Professor Heidi Lempp

Emeritus Professor of Medical Sociology in Rheumatology and Medical Education

Biography

Sociology applied in muscular-skeletal health and its psycho-social impact, the physical and mental interface in long-term muscular-skeletal conditions, patient involvement and public engagement in research, quality of life, patient-generated outcome measures; non-medicinal interventions, Sociology of medical education.

    Research

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    Lempp Group

    Sociology applied in muscular-skeletal health and its psycho-social impact, physical and mental interface in long-term muscular-skeletal conditions, patient involvement and public engagement in research, quality of life, patient generated outcome measures; non-medicinal interventions, Sociology of medical education

    managing-virtual-teams-mobile
    King’s Health Programmes Attainment Gaps Research Group

    Providing culturally appropriate care for all is core to health equality and patient-centred care.

    News

    The use of metaphors enables patients and caregivers to communicate their experiences of living with long-term conditions

    Patients can provide a unique insight into their own physical and emotional world through their own words with intentional or unintentional metaphors

    Cancer patient website

    The Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health

    Experts call for radical global action to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, as this is often ‘worse than the...

    Mental Health

    King's team wins award to investigate equality in healthcare education

    A team led by Dr Shuangyu Li, Centre for Education and Dr Heidi Lempp, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, has won the Autumn 2019 round of the King’s...

    The seed fund will investigate disparities in the academic attainment of undergraduate students on Health School programmes.

    Funding awarded to study long-term conditions in Black African communities with HIV

    A team of researchers from King’s have been awarded funding to study multiple risk factors in the setting of HIV infection in African and Caribbean people.

    HIV

    Researchers to investigate the emotional impact of Axial Spondyloarthritis

    Researchers from King’s College Hospital and the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences receive funding to explore the impact of Axial Spondyloarthritis on...

    mental health

    Events

    18JanInaugural Lectures General 2022-23 thumbnail reduced text final

    Inaugural Lecture: Professors Simon Ameer-Beg & Heidi Lempp

    Inspiring talks from some of our brightest minds

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    DDI Spotlight: 5 minutes with Susan John and Heidi Lempp

    Our DDI Spotlights explore our Academic Leads for Development, Diversity and Inclusion from across the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

    guys-campus-hero

    5 minutes with Heidi Lempp

    Dr Heidi Lempp is a Reader in Medical Sociology in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, and was recently appointed as the School Academic Lead,...

    Healthcare

      Research

      lempp-hero
      Lempp Group

      Sociology applied in muscular-skeletal health and its psycho-social impact, physical and mental interface in long-term muscular-skeletal conditions, patient involvement and public engagement in research, quality of life, patient generated outcome measures; non-medicinal interventions, Sociology of medical education

      managing-virtual-teams-mobile
      King’s Health Programmes Attainment Gaps Research Group

      Providing culturally appropriate care for all is core to health equality and patient-centred care.

      News

      The use of metaphors enables patients and caregivers to communicate their experiences of living with long-term conditions

      Patients can provide a unique insight into their own physical and emotional world through their own words with intentional or unintentional metaphors

      Cancer patient website

      The Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health

      Experts call for radical global action to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, as this is often ‘worse than the...

      Mental Health

      King's team wins award to investigate equality in healthcare education

      A team led by Dr Shuangyu Li, Centre for Education and Dr Heidi Lempp, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, has won the Autumn 2019 round of the King’s...

      The seed fund will investigate disparities in the academic attainment of undergraduate students on Health School programmes.

      Funding awarded to study long-term conditions in Black African communities with HIV

      A team of researchers from King’s have been awarded funding to study multiple risk factors in the setting of HIV infection in African and Caribbean people.

      HIV

      Researchers to investigate the emotional impact of Axial Spondyloarthritis

      Researchers from King’s College Hospital and the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences receive funding to explore the impact of Axial Spondyloarthritis on...

      mental health

      Events

      18JanInaugural Lectures General 2022-23 thumbnail reduced text final

      Inaugural Lecture: Professors Simon Ameer-Beg & Heidi Lempp

      Inspiring talks from some of our brightest minds

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      DDI Spotlight: 5 minutes with Susan John and Heidi Lempp

      Our DDI Spotlights explore our Academic Leads for Development, Diversity and Inclusion from across the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

      guys-campus-hero

      5 minutes with Heidi Lempp

      Dr Heidi Lempp is a Reader in Medical Sociology in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, and was recently appointed as the School Academic Lead,...

      Healthcare