Speakers - Rheumatology

In alphabetical order:

Peter Brooks MD FRACP FAFPHM FAFRM is Executive Dean of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland. He trained in Rheumatology at the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases in Glasgow in the 1970's and was the foundation Chair of Rheumatology (Florance and Cope Chair) at the University of Sydney. He subsequently held the post of Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales prior to taking up his current position in Brisbane in 1998.

Dr Frazer was trained as a renal physician and clinical immunologist in Edinburgh, Scotland before emigrating to Melbourne to pursue an interest in viral immunology and autoimmunity. He now heads the University of Queensland Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. His research interests include viral and tumour immunology, and prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for Papillomavirus associated cancers. He holds research funding from the NIH, the NHMRC, the Queensland Cancer Fund, and the American Cancer Research Institute. He has recently started up a small biotechnology company to develop and commercialise an aspect of gene therapy treatment.

Julien De Jager is currently the Visiting Rheumatologist, Pindara and Allamanda Private Hospitals, Gold Coast, and Senior Visiting Rheumatologist, at the Gold Coast Hospital.

He has been awarded the Joseph Peukert Memorial Prize 1975, 1976 (Best Resident) and the Granville Disaster Medal 1977 (N.S.W. Government).

Graduated Univ OF QLD 1982.
Rural General Practitioner until 1996 in QLD and NSW.
Trained in General Medicine and Rheumatology 1996-2001at Princess Alexandra
and Royal Brisbane Hospitals in Brisbane.
Private Rheumatology Practice Brisbane and VMO in General Medicine and
Rheumatology to Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane 2002.

Dr Maher is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physiotherapy, the University of Sydney and a Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy. His clinical, teaching and research interests are in the assessment and management of spinal pain and the promotion of evidence-based practice. In 2001 he published 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Spine and the British Medical Journal. He currently holds over $1million in research grants.

Manathip Osiri graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She finished her Internal Medicine residency training and Rheumatology fellowship from the Department of Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. In 1998, she was a research scholar at the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. In 1999, She received the Metro A. Ogryzlo Fellowship Award and work with Professor Peter Tugwell at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Osiri involved in the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group as a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration. Her main interests include the clinical aspects and function of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Manathip Osiri graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She finished her Internal Medicine residency training and Rheumatology fellowship from the Department of Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. In 1998, she was a research scholar at the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. In 1999, She received the Metro A. Ogryzlo Fellowship Award and work with Professor Peter Tugwell at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Osiri involved in the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group as a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration. Her main interests include the clinical aspects and function of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Anthony is Research Fellow and Endocrinologist at the Princess Alexandra and Mater Hospitals, Brisbane. He is currently completing his 3rd year of PhD - looking at insulin resistance in adipose tissue from pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes.

Dr Thomas is a graduate of the University of Western Australia who trained there as a rheumatologist. She commenced a research fellowship with Peter Lipsky in Texas in 1990 and was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland in 1994, then promoted to Associate Professor in 1999. She is Deputy director of the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research. Her research is focussed on the study of the biology and clinical use of human dendritic cells.