Keri-Michèle Lodge

Consultant in Learning Disability Psychiatry

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Biography

Keri-Michèle Lodge is a Consultant in Learning Disability Psychiatry at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She is the author of the Beyond Words book ‘Joe and Julie Stop Smoking’, a word-free picture story for people with learning disabilities, and others who find pictures easier to read than words. Keri is passionate about the health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities and autistic people and has published several articles about this. Before becoming a doctor, Keri worked as a community support assistant, supporting adults with a learning disability to live in their own homes. She is also a sibling carer.