Elizabeth Sinclair Miller (born 27 February 1957) is a British physician, surgeon, campaigner and writer noted for her outspoken stance on mental health, and bipolar disorder (manic depression) in particular.
Although she has a long history of television and radio appearances, she came to public prominence in Stephen Fry's Emmy Award-winning documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive in 2006.
A difficult child by her own admission,[1] she managed to persuade her parents to send her to Cheltenham Ladies' College at the age of eleven.
The stress of her career, being the only female neurosurgeon in the UK at the time[2] caused her to have a hypomanic episode while practising in Edinburgh that same year.
In 1996 she started work with the Manic Depression Fellowship, and formed the Doctors Support Network with Dr Soames Michelson.