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Dr Kimberley Marie Kendall
Teams and roles for Kimberley Marie Kendall
Clinical Lecturer
Senior Clinical Fellow
Overview
I am a clinical academic psychiatrist specialising in the genomic basis of severe mental illness and in translating biological discoveries into clinical practice. My research focuses on how genetic risk shapes illness outcomes and how molecular mechanisms can inform interventions within real-world clinical services.
I am a co-investigator on the Mental Health Goals Omics Psychosis programme, a major UK initiative that aims to recruit a large cohort of individuals with psychosis and integrate their multi-omic data with deep clinical phenotyping. I lead Welsh recruitment for this programme and the CONNECT study, and I serve as Health and Care Research Wales Specialty Lead for Mental Health. Clinically, I work in the All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service, the UK’s first dedicated psychiatric genomics clinic, delivering psychiatric genomic counselling and testing to individuals with psychiatric conditions and their families, as well as to individuals identified as carrying psychiatric genetic risk variants.
Publication
2026
- Eisner, E. et al., 2026. Using passive sensing to predict psychosis relapse: an in-depth qualitative study exploring perspectives of people with psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders 52 (4) sbaf126. (10.1093/schbul/sbaf126)
- Quinn, A. et al., 2026. Severe Mental Illness Longitudinal Evaluation (SMILE): protocol for establishing a cohort and bioresource for UK-based patients with psychosis. BMJ Open 16 (7) e116077. (10.1136/bmjopen-2025-116077)
- Bladon, S. et al., 2026. Evaluating wearable devices for remote monitoring in psychosis: Pilot study nested within the CONNECT cohort study. JMIR Formative Research 10 e86049. (10.2196/86049)
- Eisner, E. et al., 2026. Views of people with psychosis about algorithm-based relapse prediction and data sharing: qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 28 e86753. (10.2196/86753)
- Brah, H. S. et al., 2026. Clinical genetic testing in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological psychiatry 99 (7), pp.541-549. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.09.010)
- Ball, H. et al., 2026. Mental health professionals’ perspectives on digital remote monitoring in services for people with psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders 52 (1) sbaf043. (10.1093/schbul/sbaf043)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2026. The relationship between schizophrenia polygenic scores, blood-based proteins and psychosis diagnosis in the UK Biobank. Schizophrenia 12 24. (10.1038/s41537-025-00725-8)
2025
- Rammos, A. et al., 2025. Copy number variants and their implications for developmental and behavioural problems in cleft lip and/or palate. Human Molecular Genetics 34 (18), pp.1563-1574. (10.1093/hmg/ddaf115)
2024
- Kendall, K. et al. 2024. The translation of psychiatric genetics findings to the clinic. Schizophrenia Research 267 , pp.470-472. (10.1016/j.schres.2023.10.024)
2022
- Wadon, M. et al. 2022. Clinical and genotypic analysis in determining dystonia non-motor phenotypic heterogeneity: a UK Biobank study. Journal of Neurology 269 , pp.6436-6451. (10.1007/s00415-022-11307-4)
2021
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2021. The genetic basis of major depression. Psychological Medicine 51 (13), pp.2217-2230. (10.1017/S0033291721000441)
- Martin, J. et al. 2021. Examining sex differences in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetic risk in anxiety and depression. PLoS ONE 16 (9) e0248254. (10.1371/journal.pone.0248254)
- Silva, A. I. et al. 2021. Analysis of diffusion tensor imaging data from the UK Biobank confirms dosage effect of 15q11.2 copy number variation on white matter and shows association with cognition. Biological Psychiatry 90 (5), pp.307-316. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.969)
- Caseras, X. et al. 2021. Effects of genomic copy number variants penetrant for schizophrenia on cortical thickness and surface area in healthy individuals: analysis of the UK Biobank. British Journal of Psychiatry 218 (2), pp.104-111. (10.1192/bjp.2020.139)
- Kendall, K. 2021. Clinical genetics [TrOn learning module]. [Online].Royal College of Psychiatrists. Available at: https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/products/TrOn_Clinical_genetics.
- Kendall, K. 2021. The phenotypic expression of neuropsychiatric copy number variants. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
- McMillan, K. and Kendall, K. 2021. Basic genetics [TrOn learning module]. [Online].Royal College of Psychiatrists. Available at: https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/products/TrOn_Basic_genetics.
2020
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2020. Impact of schizophrenia genetic liability on the association between schizophrenia and physical illness: a data linkage study. BJPsych Open 6 (6) e139. (10.1192/bjo.2020.42)
- Brcic, L. et al. 2020. Medical and neurobehavioural phenotypes in carriers of X-linked ichthyosis-associated genetic deletions in the UK Biobank. Journal of Medical Genetics 57 (10), pp.692-698. (10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106676)
- Gubb, S. et al. 2020. Medical and neurobehavioural phenotypes in male and female carriers of Xp22.31 duplications in the UK Biobank. Human Molecular Genetics 29 (17), pp.2872-2881. (10.1093/hmg/ddaa174)
- Warland, A. et al. 2020. Schizophrenia-associated genomic copy number variants and subcortical brain volumes in the UK Biobank. Molecular Psychiatry 25 (4), pp.854-862. (10.1038/s41380-019-0355-y)
2019
- Legge, S. E. et al. 2019. Association of genetic liability to psychotic experiences with neuropsychotic disorders and traits. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (12), pp.1256-1265. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.2508)
- Escott-Price, V. et al. 2019. Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and season of birth within the UK Biobank cohort. Psychological Medicine 49 (15), pp.2499-2504. (10.1017/S0033291718000454)
- Underwood, J. et al. 2019. Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in adults: phenotype and genotype findings from a clinically derived cohort. British Journal of Psychiatry 215 (5), pp.647-653. (10.1192/bjp.2019.30)
- Underwood, J. et al. 2019. SA20COPY Number variants and polygenic risk scores in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): results from the NCMH adult ASD cohort. European Neuropsychopharmacology 29 (S4), pp.S1198-S1199. (10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.242)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2019. Cognitive performance and functional outcomes of carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of the UK Biobank. British Journal of Psychiatry 214 (05), pp.297-304. (10.1192/bjp.2018.301)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2019. Association of rare copy number variants with risk of depression. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (8), pp.818-825. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0566)
- Crawford, K. et al. 2019. Medical consequences of pathogenic CNVs in adults: Analysis of the UK Biobank. Journal of Medical Genetics 56 , pp.131-138. (10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105477)
2018
- Owen, D. et al. 2018. Effects of pathogenic CNVs on physical traits in participants of the UK Biobank. BMC Genomics 19 (1) 867. (10.1186/s12864-018-5292-7)
2017
- Cosgrove, D. et al., 2017. Cognitive characterization of schizophrenia risk variants involved in synaptic transmission: evidence of CACNA1C's role in working memory. Neuropsychopharmacology 42 , pp.2612-2622. (10.1038/npp.2017.123)
- Keynejad, R. C. et al., 2017. Docbate: a National Medical Student Debate. Academic Psychiatry 41 (6), pp.839-841. (10.1007/s40596-017-0697-1)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2017. Cognitive performance among carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of 152,000 UK Biobank subjects. Biological Psychiatry 82 (2), pp.P103-110. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.08.014)
- Kendall, K. , Kirov, G. and Owen, M. 2017. Schizophrenia Genetics. In: Benjamin, S. , Virginia, S. and Pedro, R. eds. Kaplan and Sadock?s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Wolters Kluwer
2016
- Whitton, L. et al., 2016. Cognitive analysis of schizophrenia risk genes that function as epigenetic regulators of gene expression. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 171 (8), pp.1170-1179. (10.1002/ajmg.b.32503)
- Rees, E. et al. 2016. Analysis of intellectual disability copy number variants for association with schizophrenia. JAMA Psychiatry 73 (9), pp.963-969. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1831)
2015
- Kendall, K. and Owen, M. J. 2015. Intellectual disability and psychiatric comorbidity: challenges and clinical issues. Psychiatric Times 32 (5)
2012
- Kendall, K. and Robertson, N. 2012. Neuroimaging. Journal of Neurology 259 (9), pp.2009-2011. (10.1007/s00415-012-6652-x)
- Kendall, K. et al. 2012. A neurological presentation of intravascular B-cell lymphoma. Case Reports (10.1136/bcr-2012-006439)
2009
- Carroll, L. S. et al. 2009. Evidence that putative ADHD low risk alleles atSNAP25may increase the risk of schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 150B (7), pp.893-899. (10.1002/ajmg.b.30915)
Articles
- Eisner, E. et al., 2026. Using passive sensing to predict psychosis relapse: an in-depth qualitative study exploring perspectives of people with psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders 52 (4) sbaf126. (10.1093/schbul/sbaf126)
- Quinn, A. et al., 2026. Severe Mental Illness Longitudinal Evaluation (SMILE): protocol for establishing a cohort and bioresource for UK-based patients with psychosis. BMJ Open 16 (7) e116077. (10.1136/bmjopen-2025-116077)
- Bladon, S. et al., 2026. Evaluating wearable devices for remote monitoring in psychosis: Pilot study nested within the CONNECT cohort study. JMIR Formative Research 10 e86049. (10.2196/86049)
- Eisner, E. et al., 2026. Views of people with psychosis about algorithm-based relapse prediction and data sharing: qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 28 e86753. (10.2196/86753)
- Brah, H. S. et al., 2026. Clinical genetic testing in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological psychiatry 99 (7), pp.541-549. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.09.010)
- Ball, H. et al., 2026. Mental health professionals’ perspectives on digital remote monitoring in services for people with psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders 52 (1) sbaf043. (10.1093/schbul/sbaf043)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2026. The relationship between schizophrenia polygenic scores, blood-based proteins and psychosis diagnosis in the UK Biobank. Schizophrenia 12 24. (10.1038/s41537-025-00725-8)
- Rammos, A. et al., 2025. Copy number variants and their implications for developmental and behavioural problems in cleft lip and/or palate. Human Molecular Genetics 34 (18), pp.1563-1574. (10.1093/hmg/ddaf115)
- Kendall, K. et al. 2024. The translation of psychiatric genetics findings to the clinic. Schizophrenia Research 267 , pp.470-472. (10.1016/j.schres.2023.10.024)
- Wadon, M. et al. 2022. Clinical and genotypic analysis in determining dystonia non-motor phenotypic heterogeneity: a UK Biobank study. Journal of Neurology 269 , pp.6436-6451. (10.1007/s00415-022-11307-4)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2021. The genetic basis of major depression. Psychological Medicine 51 (13), pp.2217-2230. (10.1017/S0033291721000441)
- Martin, J. et al. 2021. Examining sex differences in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetic risk in anxiety and depression. PLoS ONE 16 (9) e0248254. (10.1371/journal.pone.0248254)
- Silva, A. I. et al. 2021. Analysis of diffusion tensor imaging data from the UK Biobank confirms dosage effect of 15q11.2 copy number variation on white matter and shows association with cognition. Biological Psychiatry 90 (5), pp.307-316. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.969)
- Caseras, X. et al. 2021. Effects of genomic copy number variants penetrant for schizophrenia on cortical thickness and surface area in healthy individuals: analysis of the UK Biobank. British Journal of Psychiatry 218 (2), pp.104-111. (10.1192/bjp.2020.139)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2020. Impact of schizophrenia genetic liability on the association between schizophrenia and physical illness: a data linkage study. BJPsych Open 6 (6) e139. (10.1192/bjo.2020.42)
- Brcic, L. et al. 2020. Medical and neurobehavioural phenotypes in carriers of X-linked ichthyosis-associated genetic deletions in the UK Biobank. Journal of Medical Genetics 57 (10), pp.692-698. (10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106676)
- Gubb, S. et al. 2020. Medical and neurobehavioural phenotypes in male and female carriers of Xp22.31 duplications in the UK Biobank. Human Molecular Genetics 29 (17), pp.2872-2881. (10.1093/hmg/ddaa174)
- Warland, A. et al. 2020. Schizophrenia-associated genomic copy number variants and subcortical brain volumes in the UK Biobank. Molecular Psychiatry 25 (4), pp.854-862. (10.1038/s41380-019-0355-y)
- Legge, S. E. et al. 2019. Association of genetic liability to psychotic experiences with neuropsychotic disorders and traits. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (12), pp.1256-1265. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.2508)
- Escott-Price, V. et al. 2019. Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and season of birth within the UK Biobank cohort. Psychological Medicine 49 (15), pp.2499-2504. (10.1017/S0033291718000454)
- Underwood, J. et al. 2019. Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in adults: phenotype and genotype findings from a clinically derived cohort. British Journal of Psychiatry 215 (5), pp.647-653. (10.1192/bjp.2019.30)
- Underwood, J. et al. 2019. SA20COPY Number variants and polygenic risk scores in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): results from the NCMH adult ASD cohort. European Neuropsychopharmacology 29 (S4), pp.S1198-S1199. (10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.242)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2019. Cognitive performance and functional outcomes of carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of the UK Biobank. British Journal of Psychiatry 214 (05), pp.297-304. (10.1192/bjp.2018.301)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2019. Association of rare copy number variants with risk of depression. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (8), pp.818-825. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0566)
- Crawford, K. et al. 2019. Medical consequences of pathogenic CNVs in adults: Analysis of the UK Biobank. Journal of Medical Genetics 56 , pp.131-138. (10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105477)
- Owen, D. et al. 2018. Effects of pathogenic CNVs on physical traits in participants of the UK Biobank. BMC Genomics 19 (1) 867. (10.1186/s12864-018-5292-7)
- Cosgrove, D. et al., 2017. Cognitive characterization of schizophrenia risk variants involved in synaptic transmission: evidence of CACNA1C's role in working memory. Neuropsychopharmacology 42 , pp.2612-2622. (10.1038/npp.2017.123)
- Keynejad, R. C. et al., 2017. Docbate: a National Medical Student Debate. Academic Psychiatry 41 (6), pp.839-841. (10.1007/s40596-017-0697-1)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2017. Cognitive performance among carriers of pathogenic copy number variants: analysis of 152,000 UK Biobank subjects. Biological Psychiatry 82 (2), pp.P103-110. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.08.014)
- Whitton, L. et al., 2016. Cognitive analysis of schizophrenia risk genes that function as epigenetic regulators of gene expression. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 171 (8), pp.1170-1179. (10.1002/ajmg.b.32503)
- Rees, E. et al. 2016. Analysis of intellectual disability copy number variants for association with schizophrenia. JAMA Psychiatry 73 (9), pp.963-969. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1831)
- Kendall, K. and Owen, M. J. 2015. Intellectual disability and psychiatric comorbidity: challenges and clinical issues. Psychiatric Times 32 (5)
- Kendall, K. and Robertson, N. 2012. Neuroimaging. Journal of Neurology 259 (9), pp.2009-2011. (10.1007/s00415-012-6652-x)
- Kendall, K. et al. 2012. A neurological presentation of intravascular B-cell lymphoma. Case Reports (10.1136/bcr-2012-006439)
- Carroll, L. S. et al. 2009. Evidence that putative ADHD low risk alleles atSNAP25may increase the risk of schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 150B (7), pp.893-899. (10.1002/ajmg.b.30915)
Book sections
- Kendall, K. , Kirov, G. and Owen, M. 2017. Schizophrenia Genetics. In: Benjamin, S. , Virginia, S. and Pedro, R. eds. Kaplan and Sadock?s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Wolters Kluwer
Thesis
- Kendall, K. 2021. The phenotypic expression of neuropsychiatric copy number variants. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Websites
- Kendall, K. 2021. Clinical genetics [TrOn learning module]. [Online].Royal College of Psychiatrists. Available at: https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/products/TrOn_Clinical_genetics.
- McMillan, K. and Kendall, K. 2021. Basic genetics [TrOn learning module]. [Online].Royal College of Psychiatrists. Available at: https://elearninghub.rcpsych.ac.uk/products/TrOn_Basic_genetics.
Research
My research examines how genomic risk factors for severe mental illness shape biology and clinical features, including diagnosis, symptom severity and comorbidity. I use multi-omic approaches to investigate the mechanisms linking genetic risk to blood-based biomarkers and illness outcomes. I also lead translational work through the All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service, currently focusing on how patients experience psychiatric genetic counselling and testing in routine care. My long-term goal is to integrate multi-omic data with detailed clinical phenotyping to inform personalised treatment strategies and ultimately improve outcomes for people living with severe mental illnesses.
Teaching
Teaching
I deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in psychiatry, psychiatric genomics and communication skills at Cardiff University. My teaching covers core clinical psychiatry, the application of genomics in mental health, and the ethical and communication challenges involved in discussing genetic risk with patients and families. I contribute to small-group teaching, large-group lectures and skills-based workshops, and I support curriculum development around genomic medicine and severe mental illness.
Supervision and Mentoring
I have been the primary or co-supervisor for multiple medical, psychology and MSc students, including projects that have led to conference presentations and prize-winning work. Recent supervision has included projects on psychiatric genomics, psychosis and physical health, and the evaluation of novel clinical services such as the All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service. I am committed to developing early-career researchers and clinicians with strong skills in critical appraisal, research methods and translational psychiatry.
Academic Affiliations and Training
I am a clinical academic psychiatrist based at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, working at the interface of psychiatric genomics and clinical care. My training includes a PhD in Medicine, higher specialist training in General Adult Psychiatry with an endorsement in Rehabilitation Psychiatry, and a BSc in Medical Genetics. I have also undertaken formal leadership and management training, supporting my roles in programme leadership, supervision and educational development.
Biography
Current roles
2024 - present - Senior Clinical Fellow, Cardiff University
2022 - present - Consultant Psychiatrist, All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service
2024 - present - Mental Health Specialty Lead, Health and Care Research Wales
Past roles
2021 - 2024 - Higher Training Adult Psychiatry, Wales Clinical Academic Track
2020 - 2021 - Core Psychiatry Training, Wales Clinical Academic Track
2017 - 2020 - Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, Cardiff University
2013 - 2017 - Core Psychiatry Training, Wales Clinical Academic Track
2011 - 2013 - Core Medical Training, Wales Deanery
2009 - 2011 - Foundation Programme, Wales Deanery
Honours and awards
2024 - Future Leaders in Psychosis Research Award
2022 - Mental Health Incubator Award - Early impact category
2020 - European Psychiatric Society Research Prize
Professional memberships
Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training - General Adult Psychiatry, Endorsement in Rehabilitation Psychiatry
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Registered with the General Medical Council
Speaking engagements
2026 - The All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service. Plenary. Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress
2025 - Influencing mental health policy in the Senedd. Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress
2025 - Celebrating Merthyr Tydfil - Scientists. Science Cafe, BBC Radio Wales
2024 - Clinical translation of psychiatric genetic findings, British Neuroscience Society and the Senedd
2024 - The All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service, East London Foundation NHS Trust
2023 - Copy number variants in general adult psychiatry and their translation to the clinic, King's College London
2022 - Copy number variation and their interaction with polygenic risk scores, World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics
2022 - Organiser and chair, British Journal of Psychiatry Journal Club Cymru
2022 - Copy number variants in general adult psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University
Committees and reviewing
Current roles
2022 - present - PhD examiner - University of Copenhagen (external), Cardiff University (internal), King's College London (external), University of Montreal (external).
Peer review - multiple journals including JAMA Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry and Molecular Psychiatry
Past roles
2024 - 2025 - Member of the Editorial Board of Discover Mental Health
2022 - 2025 - International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Membership Committee
2018 - 2024 - International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Membership Committee Outreach Liaison Schizophrenia Group
Engagement
Policy Work
I have contributed to mental health policy engagement in Wales through a year-long collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatrists Wales. This work involved direct engagement with Members of the Senedd, including participation in meetings with cross-disciplinary health representatives and the then Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Lynne Neagle. As part of this activity, I attended the Senedd to advocate for greater prioritisation of severe mental illness and contributed to discussions on service needs and policy direction.
In collaboration with RCPsych Wales, I also supported the development and dissemination of practical guidance for policymakers, including presenting a briefing booklet to Senedd members that outlined approaches to managing psychiatric issues in constituency settings. This work reflects my commitment to bridging research, clinical priorities, and policy to improve mental health outcomes.
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Psychiatric Genetics
- Clinical Translation