Meet Steph...

Dr Stephanie Arnold is a highly regarded dermatologist who sees patients at her private practice in Oxford at the Churchill Hospital, which is a part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She specialises in genital skin disease, skin cancer, laser and general medical dermatology.

Dr Arnold completed her medical degree at the University of Sydney and started her specialty training in dermatology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney in 2008. Dr Arnold was granted the Australasian College of Dermatologists Travelling Fellowship and moved to the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, in 2011, where she worked as a dermatology registrar for three years, which included a 12 month dermatopathology research fellowship.

Back in Australia, Dr Arnold undertook further training at The Poche Melanoma Institute, St Vincent's Hospital and The Skin and Cancer Foundation in Darlinghurst, Sydney. She completed the challenging Australasian College of Dermatologists Fellowship, which led to a scholarship to the American Academy of Dermatology due to her outstanding results.

Dr Arnold won a Florance Bequest Fellowship from the Australasian College of Dermatologists in 2015 which furthered her interest in dermatopathology whilst under the tutelage of Professor Lorenzo Cerroni in Graz, Austria. This interest has enabled her to develop special expertise in general medical dermatology and vulvar dermatology. Dr Arnold achieved her UK CCT in dermatology in 2016 and became a consultant dermatologist at the Churchill Hospital in early 2017.

She has had researched published in various medical journals, and contributes to the prestigious medical information website UpToDate.

In early 2024, Dr Arnold founded Discretion Healthcare with her best buddy and colleague, Dr Emily Lord, because they saw the need for joined-up, coordinated care across dermatology and sexual health services.

Dr Arnold works closely with Dr Lord, along with a team of consultants in related specialties to ensure that your care is coordinated and streamlined.

When she's not working in dermatology, Steph loves the outdoors, in particular swimming and tramping around the wild and rocky seaside of Portland, Dorset, where she has a small hut overlooking Chesil Beach. It's a bit different from the beaches of Sydney (!) but no less stunning (and the storms are quite something!).

She has two young daughters and is honoured to be a 'Steph'-mum to two grown-up sons. She loves craft of all kinds, in particular sewing, embroidery and crochet.