Kat is an MRI Radiographer and PhD student who divides her time between Alfred Health and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Her doctoral research investigates early, preclinical cardiovascular changes in type 2 diabetes and obesity via cardiac MRI, with a focus on stress perfusion and MR spectroscopy.

Kat is supervised by Professor Eylem Levelt and Professor John Greenwood, with additional supervisory input from collaborators at the University of Oxford and the National Institutes of Health (USA). At the Baker Institute and Alfred Health, she contributes to MRI research protocol development, quality assurance, and multi-site coordination for advanced research imaging.

Clinically, Kat has worked across public hospitals in both regional and metropolitan Victoria, including Bendigo Health and The Royal Children’s Hospital. These experiences inform her patient-centred approach and her focus on translational imaging methods that can improve early diagnosis and prevention strategies in cardiometabolic disease.

Kat graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Radiography and Medical Imaging (Honours) and holds a Graduate Certificate in Magnetic Resonance Technology from the University of Queensland.