David Hunter

Dr David Hunter, as Professor of Medicine at Sydney University and Associate Professor at Tufts University, is a rheumatologist epidemiologist. He completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales, a fellowship in Rheumatology at the Royal Australian College of Physicians, earned a Masters of Medical Science (Clinical Epidemiology) from the University of Newcastle, a Masters of Sports Medicine from UNSW and a PhD from the University of Sydney. He completed his doctoral thesis looking at the genetics of osteoarthritis.
He is a member of the Australian College of Physicians, Australian Rheumatology Association, American College of Rheumatology, Orthopaedic Research Society and International Osteoarthritis Research Society. He is a board member of the International Osteoarthritis Research Society and a founding member of the Osteoarthritis Imaging Group. He is an advisory editor for the premier rheumatology journal Arthritis and Rheumatism, and an associate editor for Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.
Dr Hunter has over 180 peer reviewed publications in international journals, numerous book chapters, has co-authored a number of books, and recently completed his second book on self management strategies for the lay public. In his current work he is investigating a number of key elements in osteoarthritis including (but not limited to) the epidemiology of osteoarthritis, genetic epidemiology of osteoarthritis, the role of biomarkers in understanding OA etiopathogenesis and the role of knee braces and orthotics in disease management.