Dr Alex King

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

DClinPsy CPsychol

BSc Social Psychology (1st Class) at the University of Kent in 1997, MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology (1998, UCL) and DClinPsy Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2003, UCL).

I have practiced clinical psychology in medical settings since 2003 and specialist cancer settings at Guy's & St Thomas' (2007-2013), Imperial College Healthcare (2013-2023) and King Edward VII (2021 - present). I am currently Head of Department for Health Psychology at a London NHS hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College, London. I am on the Editorial Board for the international academic journal Psycho-oncology. 

Career highlights include the 2017 BMJ Awards for Surgery and Patient Partnership with the PREPARE prehabilitation team, the 2018 Anthony Nolan Clinical Supporter Award for work on the post-transplant care pathway. Other contributions include co-leading the 2019 NHS London guidelines for cancer psychological care and jointly editing the 2024 British Psychological Society guidance on competences for psychologists in cancer.