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Rachel Black, MBBS, FRACP, PhD

Dr Rachel Black, MBBS, FRACP, PhD is a Consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. She is an active clinician researcher, with an interest in epidemiology. She undertook a research fellowship at The University of Manchester, UK in 2013, having been awarded the Australian Rheumatology Association Ken Muirden Overseas Training Fellowship for that year. She received her doctorate from The University of Adelaide in 2019,  and her thesis examined the epidemiology and patient perspectives of glucocorticoid use in rheumatic diseases.

 

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Impact of glucocorticoids: more than just toxicity

By Rachel Black, MBBS, FRACP, PhD

As the sole effective treatment for polymyalgia rheumatica since their development in the 1950’s until recently, the impact of glucocorticoids and PMR outcomes are undeniably intertwined. So much so that when the OMERACT PMR working group first set out to develop a PMR core outcome set, they quickly realised that many of the outcomes important to patients were related to their glucocorticoid use.

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