Professor Rachelle Buchbinder

MBBS (Hons) MSc PhD FRACP FAHMS FAA
Distinguished Professor and Head, Musculoskeletal Health and Wiser Health Care Units, Monash University, Australia

Rachelle Buchbinder AO is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, NHMRC Investigator Fellow and Professor/Head, Musculoskeletal Health and Wiser Health Care Units, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is the Coordinating Editor of Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Back and Neck, cofounded the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for the Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trials Network and Wiser Healthcare, a national collaboration that aims to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment. She led the widely acclaimed 2018 Lancet series on low back pain which reached a huge audience globally and influenced international and national policy. Her 2021 book, 'Hippocrasy, how doctors are betraying their oath', written with orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris, highlighted society’s overreliance on medicine for a general audience. 

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