Professor Millicent A Stone MB FRCP MSt (U of Toronto) MSt ( Cantab)
Is an internationally highly respected key opinion leader in her field of medicine.
A practicing Consultant Rheumatologist and former academic, trained in clinical epidemiology and entrepreneur in digital healthcare and graduate in business studies from Cambridge University, Judge Business School she was shortlisted for VC social impact award for her change-making activities.
She founded and is CEO of an award winning digital healthcare company iOWNA wHealth, to provide pathways of care to patients with chronic disease to enable people live longer, healthier lives, inspired by deeply personal and clinical experiences.
She holds a Visiting Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Bath University where she is also The Royal Society, Entrepreneur in Residence.
A former academic, she has been the recipient of many research awards including NIH Welcome trust and Canadian institute research and author of over 100 papers and still continues to contribute to scientific advances now in digital healthcare space .
She continues to practice part-time in London having previously worked as a full time consultant rheumatologist in Canada for over a decade before being recruited to take over and transform the pathways of care for inflammatory eye disease patients at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. She left her NHS job to pursue her entrepreneurial change-making activities in the digital healthcare field.
Millicent was recently profiled in a seminal publication alongside thirteen other female scientists and innovators for her Change-maker activities in a landmark publication released April 2025 by The Royal Society as a creative thinker who is revolutionising the care we can give patients with chronic disease, leveraging her diverse skill set as academic, entrepreneur and practicing clinician.