Rachelle Buchbinder

Director, Department of Clinical Epidemiology; Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Rachelle.buchbinder@monash.edu

Core expertise

Rheumatology
Clinical epidemiology
Arthritis
Musculoskeletal conditions
Low back pain

Biography

Rachelle is an Australian NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. She's been the director of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology since its inception in 2001, and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine since 2007. She's a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who combines clinical practice with research in a wide range of multidisciplinary projects relating to arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions.

articles

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor

‘Some things doctors do have no benefit, and some can harm people’

Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, one of Australia’s most eminent and awarded medical experts, is on a mission to improve a medical system rife with overtreatment, overdiagnosis, and the medicalisation of normal conditions.

Medicine and health

Low back pain: We’re treating it all wrong

Unnecessary treatments, tests and advice to rest are making the problem worse worldwide, when in reality sufferers should simply remain active.

Medicine and health