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Professor Peter Brooks studied rheumatology under Professor Watson Buchanan in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1970’s. He returned to Australia to establish a rheumatology unit at the Royal Hobart in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania before moving to Flinders University, South Australia in 1978. He became Head of the Rheumatology Unit at Flinders Medical Centre and then took up the Foundation Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney in 1983. He was Head of the Department of Rheumatology at Royal North Shore Hospital from 1983 until 1992 when he moved to become the Professor of Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital associated with the University of New South Wales. In 1998 he was appointed Executive Dean of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland.
Peter Brooks has had a long interest in clinical outcome measurement in rheumatic diseases and in the epidemiology of rheumatic diseases.
He has been associated with the International League of Associations for Rheumatology and more recently on the International Steering Committee of the Bone and Joint Decade. He is also Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee on Musculoskeletal Health to the Department of Health and Aging.
He has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers, book chapters and reviews and has received over $10 million in research grants from NHMRC, ARC and other international research funds over the last 20 years.
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