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Find sources : `` Amelia Shepherd '' -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( May 2017 ) Amelia Shepherd Private Practice & Grey 's Anatomy character Caterina Scorsone as Dr. Amelia Shepherd First appearance Private Practice : `` Eyes Wide Open '' ( 3.19 ) April 1, 2010 ( as recurring cast ) `` Take Two '' ( 4.01 ) September 23, 2010 ( as series regular ) Grey 's Anatomy : `` Superfreak '' ( 7.03 ) October 7, 2010 ( as guest star ) `` I Must Have Lost it on the Wind ( 11.01 ) September 25, 2014 ( as series regular ) Created by Shonda Rhimes Portrayed by Caterina Scorsone Information Nickname ( s ) Amy Hurricane Amelia Shepherdess The Other Dr. Shepherd Lady Shepherd Emelio Shepherd Species Human Gender Female Occupation Head of Neurosurgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital Neurosurgeon at Seaside Health and Wellness ( former ) Title Chief of Neurosurgery M.D. F.A.C.S. Family Carolyn Shepherd ( mother ) Derek Shepherd ( brother, deceased ) Nancy Shepherd ( sister ) Kathleen Shepherd ( sister ) Liz Shepherd ( sister ) Addison Montgomery ( ex sister - in - law ) Henry Montgomery ( godson from Addison ) Meredith Grey ( sister - in - law ) Zola Shepherd ( niece ) Derek Bailey Shepherd ( nephew ) Ellis Shepherd ( niece ) Spouse ( s ) Owen Hunt ( divorced ) Significant other ( s ) Mark Sloan ( one - night stand ) Ryan Kerrigan ( fiancé, deceased ) James Peterson ( ex-fiancé ) Children Baby Boy, `` Unicorn baby '' ( with Ryan, deceased ) Relatives Meredith Grey ( sister - in - law ) Addison Montgomery ( ex-sister - in - law ) Nationality American Amelia Shepherd, M.D. is a fictional character on the ABC American television medical drama Private Practice, and the spinoff series ' progenitor show, Grey 's Anatomy, portrayed by Caterina Scorsone. In her debut appearance in season three, Amelia visited her former sister - in - law, Addison Montgomery, and became a partner at the Oceanside Wellness Group. After Private Practice ended its run, Scorsone recurred on the tenth season of Grey 's Anatomy, before becoming a series regular in season eleven. Contents 1 Private Practice Storyline 1.1 Early storyline 2 Grey 's Anatomy Storyline 2.1 Early storyline 2.2 As regular cast member 3 References 4 Further reading Private Practice storyline Early storyline Amelia Shepherd is the youngest sister of Dr. Derek Shepherd, and like her brother, an excellent neurosurgeon. Her ambition to prove herself equal to her brother is only surpassed by her surgical skill. After graduating in the top of her class at Harvard and completing her surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, she comes to Los Angeles on a medical case and decides to stay after she is fired from her fellowship. She asks Naomi Bennett for a job when the two practices merge. She has known Dr. Addison Montgomery for many years and views her as a close friend and surrogate sister. As a young woman, she was addicted to prescription medication and crashed Derek 's car while high. When she came home, she overdosed and was dead for three minutes. Derek saved her life, but was and still is angry with her. Amelia ended up sleeping with Derek 's best friend Mark Sloan, following in the footsteps of her sister Nancy and her ex sister - in - law Addison Montgomery after making peace with Derek following his own shooting. Amelia first appeared in season three, brought in because her boss was called for a consult on a comatose patient of Addison Montgomery 's. Amelia came up with a plan, which was not approved by her boss, to wake the patient from her coma. The family of the patient urged her to perform the surgery which lead her to be fired from the original job she had. She soon begins to hang around Oceanside Wellness, annoying Addison a bit with her free - living attitude but also giving advice on Addison 's relationship with Sam. Amelia was also the surgeon who operated on Dell Parker after the car crash. As season 4 begins, Amelia is reluctant to visit her brother, Derek, when he is shot, but Addison eventually encourages her to go to Seattle to see him. On the way, Amelia has an in - flight romance with a man with a brain tumor and brings him to Seattle Grace for surgery. She and Derek bicker constantly over the surgery, but eventually settle their differences. She also has a one - night stand with Mark Sloan. When she returns to Los Angeles, she learns that there is a merger going on between the two practices. Amelia asks Naomi Bennett if she could become Ocean Wellness ' new neurosurgeon, a move that annoys Addison. When Charlotte is attacked and raped, Amelia is out with Cooper and Sam, but after receiving a visit from Violet, she comes to Charlotte 's aid and confides in Charlotte about her addiction to prescription drugs and alcohol while stitching up a laceration on her arm. Later, when a drunken Cooper makes a move on Amelia, she rebuffs his advances and tells him to go home to his fiancée. Cooper eventually tells Charlotte about his interaction with Amelia and though Charlotte confronts her, they remain good friends. Charlotte asks Amelia to be her maid of honor in the episode `` Something Old, Something New ''. At the wedding reception Amelia asks for a glass of ginger ale instead of champagne but by accident gets champagne, which she spits out. By the end of the season, however, Amelia relapses into addiction and refuses to get the help suggested by Charlotte. Charlotte tries to intervene with meetings, but Amelia skips them. Later, Charlotte discovers that Amelia operated on a patient while she was under the influence and as a result, Charlotte revokes all of her medical privileges. Amelia continues her downward spiral in the premiere, injuring herself at a bar falling down drunk. Sheldon picks her up and takes her to the hospital where she sutures herself up in private to avoid Charlotte. The two later find out Pete has had a heart attack and needs surgery. Furthermore, Amelia operates on Pete 's brain while under the influence. Later, Amelia passes a breathalizer test, but is seen drinking alone at home in Addison 's old condo. Amelia 's friend with Huntington 's disease returns from Italy and requests Amelia 's help with physician - assisted suicide. Pete and Sheldon disagree over Amelia 's decision to help her. Later, Amelia and Pete discuss Pete 's past when he reveals he once assisted a dying patient. Later Amelia begins a benzodiazepine injection on her friend, who has an adverse reaction and requests to be saved before she stops breathing ; Amelia rushes her to the hospital, where Pete tends to her friend. Shortly after discovering her friend had completed her own suicide after being rescued, Amelia consumes what is believed to be three OxyContin pills she palmed after discovering the friend 's body. Following her friend 's death, Amelia goes on a drug bender with a man she meets named Ryan. When she is caught by Addison doing drugs with Ryan, Addison kicks her out and they move into a hotel. Despite her friends ' pleas to get help, Amelia begins writing prescriptions for herself until she is caught by Charlotte, who revokes her ability to write prescriptions. While high, Ryan proposes to Amelia and she accepts, giving him her father 's watch. Soon after, Addison and the rest of the doctors stage an intervention for Amelia, but she resists until Addison discovers that she gave Ryan the watch. While telling the story, Amelia lashes out at her and leaves with Ryan. Later that night, Ryan dies from an accidental overdose. Eventually, Amelia is put into rehab, where she recovers from her addiction with the help of her co-workers at the practice, particularly Sheldon. In addition, Sheldon seems to display some romantic feelings towards Amelia, but she does not wish to pursue a romantic relationship. Several weeks later after being confronted by Sheldon, Amelia admits that she is 20 weeks pregnant with her deceased fiancé 's baby. At the moment, she is struggling on whether or not she should keep the baby and therefore, is heavily depending on Sheldon for advice. In the end she decides to keep the baby, but then she finds out her baby boy will be born with no brain, resulting in her shutting down emotionally and pushing her friends away. She eventually decides to continue the pregnancy to term and donate her baby 's organs when he dies, after a father of a patient she pronounced brain dead decides to donate his daughter 's organs so that something good can come from her death. In the season finale, she ultimately gives birth to her anencephalic son with the help of Addison and Jake. During her labor, she wishes to be left alone, fearing that if anyone was with her, she would break down and show her emotions. At one point while going through a painful contraction, she asks Jake to leave her alone, and when he refuses, she breaks down crying, letting all of her fears out in the open. Additionally while she is in labor, Jake finally tells the practice of her plans for organ donation which divides the doctors. Some believe it was a courageous act, while others believe it was murder. Sam is against the organ donation and refuses to do the harvesting, but after a talk with Amelia, he ultimately changes his mind. When it comes time for her to push, Addison hears her cries from outside the room and walks in. Amelia initially refuses Addison, but later allows Addie to coach her. When her son is born, she initially does not want to see nor hold him and wishes that his head be covered. Before taking him away for the donation, she decides to hold her baby, where she lifts the cap from his head. When the baby goes into respiratory distress in her arms, she momentarily breaks down, wishing for more time, but, then hands the baby over to Addison for the donation. Her last words to her son are `` Your daddy is waiting for you in heaven. His name is Ryan. '' Later on in the series, she gets engaged to Dr. James Peterson, an ER doctor at St. Ambrose Hospital, but breaks it off by moving to Seattle. Grey 's Anatomy storyline Early storyline Following the end of Private Practice, when ABC cancelled it after six seasons in January 2013, the character of Amelia was added to its progenitor show Grey 's Anatomy. In Season 10, she was seen in the season 's last four episodes visiting her brother Derek and his wife Meredith Grey in their Seattle home and helping care for their children. Previously, she had only made one - off guest appearances on the show when storylines crossed over between the two series. As regular cast member On June 23, 2014, Scorsone and her character was permanently added to the regular cast for Season 11, which began airing in September 2014. When Derek is offered a job by the President of the United States running a federal brain - mapping research project in Washington, D.C., Amelia, having begun assisting at Grey - Sloan Memorial Hospital with some of Derek 's patients, takes over his practice, as the head of neurosurgery, at the hospital. She thus gained monikers, such as `` Shepherdess '' and `` Lady Shepherd, '' so as to differentiate her from Derek. By season 11, she permanently moves in with her brother and her sister - in - law. Initially, she is known at Grey - Sloan largely as Derek 's younger sister and once told her brother that she felt like she was constantly in his shadow. She soon begins a relationship with Owen Hunt ( Kevin McKidd ), her boss, and admits to Derek that she is falling in love with him. However, she later tells Owen that it was a mistake to mix their personal and professional lives. Following her brother 's death and Meredith 's `` disappearance, '' she buries herself in work to distract herself. For some time she and Meredith were estranged over the circumstances of Derek 's death but after listening to the very last phone message Derek had recorded for Meredith, she is finally able to let go of the animosity and reaches out to Meredith. Meredith 's half sister Maggie moves in, with Amelia labeling the threesome `` Lady Chief Trifecta. '' She gradually befriends Meredith 's colleagues and is accepted into their circle. At the end of season 12, she marries Owen Hunt. However, the marriage is very turbulent at times. They struggle to adjust to married life, especially when Owen tells her that he wants kids as she does not want kids, nor does she want to go through the trauma of another pregnancy after the loss of her first child ( who Owen does n't know about ). This strains the marriage to the point where she moves out and avoids him entirely. During the rest of the season, she grows closer to the two sisters and focuses more on her work, ignoring her stalling marriage. In season 14, when she went into an MRI as part of a study conducted by Carina Deluca on female brain activity, she found out that she has a brain tumor. She is able to overcome that obstacle, but is forced to step back and reconsider how the tumor had affected her life choices and personality. She and Owen end up having an understanding to break up their marriage but still remain close friends. References Jump up ^ http://www.eonline.com/news/553554/caterina-scorsone-joins-grey-s-anatomy-as-a-series-regular Further reading http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greys-anatomy-amelias-private-practice-past-is-finally-resurfacing-941629 Private Practice Episodes Season 1 `` Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King ? '' 5 6 Characters Addison Montgomery Pete Wilder Naomi Bennett Cooper Freedman Charlotte King Dell Parker Sheldon Wallace Amelia Shepherd Sam Bennett Violet Turner See also Grey 's Anatomy Grey 's Anatomy Episodes Season 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Characters ( cast members ) Meredith Grey Cristina Yang Izzie Stevens Alex Karev George O'Malley Miranda Bailey Richard Webber Preston Burke Derek Shepherd Addison Montgomery Mark Sloan Callie Torres Lexie Grey Erica Hahn Owen Hunt Sadie Harris Arizona Robbins Teddy Altman Jackson Avery April Kepner Amelia Shepherd Stephanie Edwards Maggie Pierce Nathan Riggs Other Awards and nominations Soundtrack Video game Private Practice Station 19 A Corazón Abierto ( Mexican telenovela ) A Corazón Abierto ( Colombian telenovela ) Portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amelia_Shepherd&oldid=826512918 '' Categories : Fictional characters introduced in 2010 Private Practice characters Grey 's Anatomy characters Fictional surgeons Fictional characters from New York City Fictional Harvard University people Fictional drug addicts Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from May 2012 All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention Articles with topics of unclear notability from May 2017 All articles with topics of unclear notability Articles with multiple maintenance issues Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français 한국어 Italiano Polski Português Edit links This page was last edited on 19 February 2018, at 15 : 31. 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Question: when does amelia come back to grey's anatomy
Answer: in season eleven