Jo Brown is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist based in Edinburgh where she is Clinical Director and lead consultant for the Forensic Women’s Service.
As a qualified Cognitive Analytic Therapist, she has also provided input in the Veterans First Point Service.
She is involved in teaching with Edinburgh University and has an Honorary Fellowship with School of Law.
She is Chair for the Forensic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland and has participated in responding to several recent Scottish Government reviews including the Scott Review of Mental Health Law and the Barron Review of Forensic Mental Health Services in Scotland. She is the Treasurer for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) UK, a charity working to raise the profile of this ultra-rare genetic condition.