Patron
Dr Khair has worked with people with bleeding disorders for more than 30 years. She was a trustee of the Haemophilia Society (THS) for a total of nine years between 2008 and 2021 and continues to give her time generously in support of our charity.
Dr Khair is Director of Research at Haemnet, a specialist research and communications consultancy working in the bleeding disorders community.
Since becoming a state registered nurse in 1981, Dr Khair has gained many other professional qualifications including state registration in paediatric nursing, a master’s degree in anthropology, a City and Guilds master’s degree in higher levels of practice, several modules in advanced nursing and a PhD in health and social care. Kate is an advocate of the nurse’s role in the multi-disciplinary team, is the past chair of the nurses committee of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), a founding trustee of Haemnet and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Haemophilia Practice.
Dr Khair worked in the haemophilia centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children from 1991 as a consultant nurse. In 2018 she moved to the Centre for Outcomes Research and Experience in Children’s Health Illness and Disability (ORCHID) as a clinical academic to use her academic time to continue her work into outcomes research in haemophilia and bleeding disorders as well as to support PhD students in health research.