Fiona McQueen
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| Occupation(s) | Rheumatologist, children's writer, environmental activist |
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| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
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| Doctoral advisor | John Gordon Buchanan, Ian James Simpson, Mark Greenslade Thomas, Kathryn E Crosier |
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| Institutions | University of Auckland, University of Otago |
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.
McQueen graduated from the University of Otago with a MB Chb in 1980, and worked as a consultant rheumatologist in New Zealand.[1] She completed a PhD titled Investigations into the immunopathology of inflammatory arthritis at the University of Auckland in 1996.[2] McQueen then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2009.[1] She was New Zealand's first woman professor of rheumatology, and is an honorary clinical professor at the University of Otago.[3][4] 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".[4] Consultant rheumatologist Nicola Dalbeth nominated her as one of the "25 great women" in rheumatology.[4]
McQueen's lifelong hobby of tramping led to an interest in conservation, and in 2017 she published a book arguing against the use of 1080 for pest control in New Zealand forests.[1]
McQueen is also a children's writer, having written two books out of a planned trilogy about the adventures of a marmot and a squirrel, Roderick and the Wizard of Endor, and Roderick and the Creeping Evil.[5][6]
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