Fiona McQueen

Fiona Marion Florence McQueen is a New Zealand rheumatologist, environmentalist and children's writer, and was a full professor at the University of Auckland before retiring to run a private herbalist practice in Glenorchy in Otago. She was New Zealand's first woman professor of rheumatology.

Academic career

McQueen graduated from the University of Otago with a MB Chb in 1980, and worked as a consultant rheumatologist in New Zealand. She completed a PhD titled Investigations into the immunopathology of inflammatory arthritis at the University of Auckland in 1996. McQueen then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2009. McQueen used magnetic resonance imaging to show the development of bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis, and published a ten-year longitudinal study that was "the first of its kind and identified the central importance of osteitis in the development of bone erosion in rheumatoid arthritis".

Selected works

Books

McQueen, F. M. (2021). Roderick and the Creeping Evil. Tross Publishing.

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