Dr Stephanie Bown

Director of Policy, Communications and Marketing

Dr Stephanie Bown LLB(Hons) MRCP DRCOG FFFLM is Director of Policy, Communications and Marketing at the Medical Protection Society.

She represents and promotes the interests of MPS and its members externally to decision makers and a wide range of health and legal stakeholders. She works to establish MPS as the preferred choice of  professional protection for doctors and other healthcare workers in the markets in which MPS operates. Through her role at MPS Stephanie contributes to a number of working groups, expert panels and boards. She is also involved in developing MPS's medicolegal educational materials.

Stephanie joined MPS in 1994 as a medicolegal adviser and developed a particular interest in disciplinary and regulatory case work. She completed an LLB in 1997 and subsequently qualified as a mediator. Stephanie later became MPS's Head of Medical Services (London).

She spent over 12 years as a doctor in the NHS, in acute hospital medicine, then obstetrics and gynaecology before moving into general practice in South East London.

Outside MPS, Stephanie is a foundation fellow and past vice president of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.