Professor Peter Youssef is a senior staff specialist at Royal Prince Alfred and Clinical Professor of Rheumatology at Sydney University. He has recently taken up the position of Director of Commercial Clinical Research in the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1993. He completed his doctorate in 1997 at the Flinders University of South Australia and then post-doctoral studies in Dublin returning to The University of New South Wales as a post-doctoral fellow. Since 2007 he has been the rheumatology subeditor of the Internal Medicine Journal. He has received NHMRC project funding and is currently involved in studies of systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and myositis.