Professor David Hunter
Dr David Hunter, Florance and Cope Chair of Rheumatology and Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney is a rheumatologist epidemiologist. He completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales, a fellowship in Rheumatology at the Royal Australian College of Physicians, earned a Masters of Medical Science (Clinical Epidemiology) from the University of Newcastle, a Masters of Sports Medicine from UNSW and a PhD from the University of Sydney. He completed his doctoral thesis looking at the genetics of osteoarthritis.
He is a board member of the International Osteoarthritis Research Society and a founding member of the Osteoarthritis Imaging Group. He is an advisory editor for Arthritis Care and Research, and an associate editor for Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. In his current work he is investigating a number of key elements in osteoarthritis including the epidemiology of osteoarthritis.