INFORMATION
FOR KIDS
DR KATE HERSOV
Dr Kate Hersov is the Deputy CEO and Co-Founder of Medikidz. She qualified as a doctor in 2004 after graduating from the University of Otago. Specialising mainly in Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Oncology, she also worked as a Medical Research Fellow at the Medical Research Institute of NZ. She authored a number of journal articles published across healthcare and pharmaceutical press.
She met Dr Kim Chilman-Blair at medical school. Both eventually found that they shared a common frustration with finding accessible medical information for young patients. It was then when they had an idea of comic books that would explain childhood medical conditions.
However, what originally began as a simple task of collating medical information for young patients in New Zealand turned into a gruelling mission. Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair and Dr Kate Hersov's combined research highlighted the lack of information for children abroad, as well as in New Zealand. With a massive gap in the market waiting to be filled, both Dr Kate and Dr Kim gave up their full-time careers as doctors to focus solely on developing their medical comic book series and social networking website where children could connect and speak to each other about their experiences with various medical conditions. Finding unprecedented level of support and enthusiasm coming from Europe and the US, Dr Hersov and Dr Chilman-Blair moved their operations to London to expand Medikidz as an international business.
Email:
info@medikidz.com
Phone number:
+44 207 376 6630
