dr owen bradfield

Presentation: Mandatory reporting and practitioner health and wellbeing.

Chief Medical Officer, Medical Indemnity Protection Society PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne 

Dr Owen Bradfield is medical practitioner and health lawyer. His research focuses on the role of medical regulation in patient safety and the intersection between doctors’ wellbeing and medico-legal claims, complaints and disciplinary processes. 

Owen is a dual-qualified medical practitioner and health lawyer, who aspires to solve complex dilemmas at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and the law. A graduate of Monash University's pioneering Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Laws double degree programme with First Class Honours, Owen combines his research interests with clinical practice and work as MIPS’ inaugural Chief Medical Officer. 

Owen is also a 2020 Fulbright Future Scholar, where he spent 5 months at the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University looking at comparisons between Australian and US approaches to medical regulation.