Core expertise
Osteoarthritis risk factors and treatment
Biography
Flavia graduated in medicine from Monash University in 1982, and completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1993. She then completed an MSc at the University of London, looking at risk factors for osteoarthritis, and completed further study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1996.
Her current research includes using magnetic resonance imaging to understand factors that affect joint cartilage in healthy and diseased states.
She has made major and significant contributions to the field of osteoarthritis, developing the first method for assessing joints in clinical trials of osteoarthritis. She performed the world’s first clinical trial of osteoarthritis using this method, which is now used internationally in trials to test new treatments for osteoarthritis. Her work has led to new understanding of the causes of osteoarthritis, which has led to clinical trials into new treatments.
