Year of Birth:
1944

Present Appointment:
Independent Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Summary:
Ian Stephen qualified in medicine in 1968 from Cambridge University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1973 and subsequently had twenty years experience of general trauma and orthopaedics as a Consultant in the National Health Service, latterly as Clinical Director for the East Kent Hospital NHS Trust. Since 2001, he has been in independent practice with a special interest in foot and ankle problems. He stopped clinical practice in 2007 but remains a member of Private Practice Medical Advisory Committee of the Spencer Wing, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate. He is a past President of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, and of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. His special interests are personal injury and medical negligence litigation and medical history.

Qualifications:
MA - 1969
MB - 1968
BChir - 1968
FRCS(T) - 1973

Other Information:
Governor of the Expert Witness Institute.
Chairman of the Academic Board and a Trustee of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Member of the Cases Committee of the Medical Protection Society.
Archivist of the British Orthopaedic Association.
Member of the History of Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.