Sam Whittle works in both clinical practice, as a senior consultant rheumatologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South Australia, and research, as an Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC) Practitioner Fellow. He was a co-founder of ANZMUSC and is a member of its Executive Committee. He has recently completed a term on the Board of the Australian Rheumatology Association. In addition to his fellowship work on 'living evidence', his research and clinical interests include fibromyalgia, chronic pain, gout and spondyloarthritis. Follow him on Twitter @samwhittle.