Catherine Stedman

Catherine Ann Malcolm Stedman is a New Zealand pharmacologist and gastroenterologist, and is a clinical professor at the University of Otago, specialising in hepatitis C drug development. She is the first woman gastroenterologist to become a professor of medicine in New Zealand.

Academic career

Stedman completed her undergraduate medical degree at the University of Otago, and then undertook a PhD titled Role of nuclear receptors in bile acid disposition and detoxification at the University of Sydney in 2006. Her clinical training in pharmacology and gastroenterology took place at Christchurch Hospital and Westmead Hospital in Sydney. She is the first woman gastroenterologist to become a professor of medicine in New Zealand.

As of 2024, Stedman is the president of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology.

Honours and awards In 2019 Stedman was awarded the Gold Research Medal by the University of Otago Christchurch campus.

Selected works