Dr. Sheena Ross was born in Inverness and comes from a farming family in the Black Isle area of Ross and Cromarty, now part of Highland Region. One of six children, she attended Dingwall Academy and went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked at leading British hospitals and also in Australia and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, U.S.A.. After 23 years as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, she has recently retired from the NHS.
As a pain specialist she became interested in acupuncture as a method of pain relief and in 1984 started using it within the NHS. In 1991 she felt ready to establish her own practice. She now has an office at her home in Thrapston and a weekly clinic at the Linia Cromwell hospital in Huntingdon.
Dr. Ross is a member of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, whose members are doctors with a conventional training, as well as being competent in acupuncture. Although obviously an advocate of the benefits of acupuncture, she feels strongly that it should be an additional weapon in the doctors’ armoury, rather than a panacea. She believes that the patient should be treated as a whole and not just as a disease process. With this in mind, she completed a course in hypnotherapy four years ago and is enjoying developing these two complementary therapies.
Dr. Ross is married with one daughter, born in 1988.