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Prof Rachelle Buchbinder

Rachelle Buchbinder is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, an NHMRC Investigator Lead 3 Fellow and Professor (Distinguished Academic)/Head, Musculoskeletal Health Unit and Wiser Health Care Group in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is known internationally as a vocal proponent of evidence-based medicine and for her landmark studies, particularly those examining treatments accepted into practice before their proper evaluation.

She is the Coordinating Editor of Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Back and Neck, co-founded and leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for the Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trials Network, and she co-founded Wiser Healthcare, a national collaboration that aims to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Her best-selling 2021 book which has been translated into Korean, ‘Hippocrasy, how doctors are betraying their oath’, written with orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris, aims to highlight society’s overreliance on medicine for a general audience.

Rachelle Buchbinder is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, an NHMRC Investigator Lead 3 Fellow and Professor (Distinguished Academic)/Head, Musculoskeletal Health Unit and Wiser Health Care Group in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is known internationally as a vocal proponent of evidence-based medicine and for her landmark studies, particularly those examining treatments accepted into practice before their proper evaluation. She is the Coordinating Editor of Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Back and Neck, co-founded and leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for the Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trials Network, and she co-founded Wiser Healthcare, a national collaboration that aims to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Her best-selling 2021 book which has been translated into Korean, ‘Hippocrasy, how doctors are betraying their oath’, written with orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris, aims to highlight society’s overreliance on medicine for a general audience.

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The University of Sydney, Australia
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