Susan Bewley

Susan Jane Bewley (born July 1958) is a British consultant obstetrician, and Emeritus Professor of Obstetric and Women's Health at King's College London.

Her main research areas have been on severe maternal diseases and violence in pregnancy, with other work in fertility and intrapartum guidance with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Her mother, Beulah Bewley, daughter of banker John Knox and the affluent heiress Ina Charles, became a dame for her work on women in medicine.

[4] Inspired by her parents and the late obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, Bewley specialised in complicated births and severe maternal morbidity.

[4] By sending an open letter to the BMJ, Bewley caused a national review into breast cancer screening.