Fiona McQueen | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Rheumatologist, children's writer, environmental activist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | John Gordon Buchanan, Ian James Simpson, Mark Thomas, Kathryn Crosier |
| Academic work | |
| 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]