Press Release – University of Auckland A world-leading specialist in gout, Professor Nicola Dalbeth, won the top research award of the medical faculty of the University of Auckland. img src ”https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2104/1ac9bbe584eb26678401.jpeg” width ”720″ height ”454″ Professor Nicola Dalbeth Professor …
A world-leading specialist in gout, Professor Nicola Dalbeth, won the top research award of the medical faculty of the University of Auckland.
Professor Nicola Dalbeth
Professor Dalbeth is this year’s winner of the Gluckman Medal for distinguished contribution to research for her work in gout, an arthritis prevalent in Aotearoa.
Her more than 400 research papers span everything from the extra risk Covid-19 poses for people suffering from gout to whether the condition – an inflammatory arthritis – should have a different name. (She thinks it should.)
Professor Nicola
Dalbeth
Professor Dalbeth is this year’s winner of
the Gluckman Medal for distinguished contribution to
research for her work in gout, an arthritis prevalent in
Aotearoa.
Her more than 400 research papers span
everything from the extra risk Covid-19 poses for people
suffering from gout to whether the condition – an
inflammatory arthritis – should have a different name.
(She thinks it should.)
Gout is a painful form of
arthritis caused by urate crystals accumulating in joints.
It affects one quarter of older Māori men and one third of
older Pasifika men in New Zealand.
Professor Dalbeth
has led international initiatives to re-define central